HL7 User Group Switzerland

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HL7 User Group Switzerland
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HL7 User Group Switzerland

• HL7 User Group Switzerland (HL7 UGCH)?
  constituted on 17th August 2000.
• ObjectivePromotion, 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_at_oui.usz
  .ch)
• Vice-president Andrzej J. Knafel
  (andrzej.knafel_at_roche.com)

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HL7 User Group Switzerland

• Organizational status of HL7 UGCH
• Established constitution, regulations and
  operation procedures.
• Agreed upon financial 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.

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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.

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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.