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= **HL7 Tools and Resources** =

Health Level 7 is the globally leading healthcare interoperability standard. Founded in 1987, it comprehensively covers all areas of clinical information exchange.
 * Overview**

A group of healthcare computer systems users started developing the HL7 protocol to create that common "language" that allows healthcare applications to share clinical data with each another. Over time the HL7 interoperability protocol became a nationally, internationally and globally accredited standard.

Go here for an Introduction to HL7. Look here for the web's the most comprehensive Directory of HL7 Tools and Resources. There is also HL7 News, HL7 Tools News, HL7 Videos and an HL7 Tools & Resources Blogas well as Digital Health Education, HL7 Training Courses and HL7 Analyst Certification.

The term "Health Level 7" ("HL7") is used both for the organisations involved in developing and supporting the healthcare standards as well as for the Version 2.x and Version 3 sets of standards themselves and other standards developed by the HL7 local organisations in 30 countries. HL7 creates international standards for inter-system and inter-organisation messaging, for decision support, clinical text document mark-up, user interface integration as well as a health data model and message development methodology.

A frequent misconception about Health Level Seven is that it develops software. HL7 develops specifications, the most widely known being a messaging standard that enables disparate healthcare applications to exchange clinical and administrative data.

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