title: HL7's comprehensive standards set and its international collaboration for enabling semantically interoperable eHealth and pHealth solutions.
abstract: The workshop is organized by HL7 and its affiliates to present and to discuss HL7's activities for providing international standards and specifications to enable advanced semantically interoperable eHealth and pHealth solutions, adaptable to national health systems through localization. The workshop especially focuses on the multi-disciplinary structure of HL7 and its liaisons with international and national standards developing organizations as well as important health informatics initiatives. Demonstrating existing and emerging solutions and strategies within HL7's broad scope and spectrum, the international scope of HL7 standards is highlighted.
authors.affiliation: eHealth Competence Center, University Hospital Regensburg, D-93042 Regensburg, Germany. bernd.blobel@klinik.uni-regensburg.de
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Blobel
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chronaki
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stegwee
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Grain
authors.forename: William E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Hammond
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jaffe
authors.forename: Dipak
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kalra
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koehn
authors.forename: Francois
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Macary
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sabutsch
authors.forename: Edward
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sheetham
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D004493:Education; D007391:International Cooperation; D008498:Medical Record Linkage / Q000592:standards*; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D012660:Semantics; D009626:Terminology as Topic