NHS Connecting
for Health (CfH) has confirmed industry reports that it is planning
changes to the implementation of HL7 within the National Programme.
The planned changes will make greater use of the clinical document
architecture (CDA) and will allow messages to be exchanged through
electronic documents rather than through the fully encoded HL7 messaging
format.
A spokesperson for CfH played down the significance of the change,
describing it as ‘technical’: “We’ve not abandoned SNOMED coding or
HL7v3 messaging. The CDA is a small technical change that better
facilitates the carrying of fully coded messages in some circumstances."
Full story in bjhc&im October 2006 (856 words)
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