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HL7 User Group Switzerland

HL7 User Group Switzerland. HL7 User Group Switzerland. HL7 User Group Switzerland (HL7 UGCH)  constituted on 17 th August 2000. Objective: Promotion, distribution and further development of the HL7 standard in Swiss health care. Original representation: Users (hospitals): 4.

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HL7 User Group Switzerland

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  1. HL7 User Group Switzerland September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)

  2. HL7 User Group Switzerland • HL7 User Group Switzerland (HL7 UGCH) constituted on 17th August 2000. • Objective:Promotion, distribution and further development of the HL7 standard in Swiss health care. • Original representation: • Users (hospitals): 4. • Vendors (HIS/LIMS, diagnostics): 8. • Contacts: • President: Ingo de Vries(ingo.devries@oui.usz.ch) • Vice-president: Andrzej J. Knafel(andrzej.knafel@roche.com) September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)

  3. HL7 User Group Switzerland • Organizational status of HL7 UGCH: • Established:constitution, regulations and operation procedures. • Agreed uponfinancial aspects. • Started implementing infrastructure: board of directors, bank account, mail address, web site, membership applications, etc. • Proposal of first project: „HL7 implementation guide for Switzerland.“ September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)

  4. HL7 User Group Switzerland • Healthcare information systems in Switzerland* • HIS/LIS: • ~5 major vendors. • ~300 installations. • Vendors partially Swiss partially from Germany and France. • Physician office software: • 2 major vendors. • Situation in healthcare informatics standards: • Generally: low grade of standardization • UN/EDIFACT (financial transactions, but w/o attachments) • DICOM • ASTM E.1394 (laboratory) • CEN TC 251 (used implementations not known) • HL7 (see next page) • Goverment program to establish nationwide EPR until 2003 * Inofficial iformation based on opinions of HL7 UGCH members. September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)

  5. HL7 User Group Switzerland • HL7 situation in Swiss healthcare* • Minimum 7 major hospitals (including most opinion leaders) commited to HL7 and are in various implementation stages. • Current focus is on Patient Data and ADT messages transferred within clinics and among clinics and hospitals. • Later planned: • Financial transactions • Orders and observations • Master files • Significant potential in connecting Physician Offices (GP). * Inofficial iformation based on opinions of HL7 UGCH members. September 2000 (A.J. Knafel)

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