This approach gives HL7 the opportunity to transport information while also maintaining the display integrity of an original document. The Claims Attachments SIG works with the X12 Standards Organization and the Health Care Financing Administration to produce a working standard and an implementation guide for healthcare claims attachments. It works to use software component technologies to reduce the reengineering costs in order to more quickly bring its benefits to the industry. This group, however, publishes standards for the visual integration of cooperative interaction among independently authored healthcare applications at the point of use. CCOW recently joined HL7 as the SIG on Visual Integration with the intent of revising its standard and publishing it as an HL7 standard.
Plans are to turn it into a technical committee.
Summary HL7 is an organization with a short history and more activity now than ever before. Opportunities abound within HL7 to assist in the development of the automation of healthcare and the deployment of information systems that create and support the electronic medical record. Finally, the continual advances in information systems technology enable HL7 to do more to meet the healthcare industry's needs. HL7 Web site. Version 2.3.1 can be found at the HL7 Web site.