HL7 Training: HL7 First Steps

What You Will Learn

HL7 First Steps gives you a solid understanding of HL7 basics and analyzes the importance of HL7 within the healthcare application environment. Seminar participants learn:

  • Section 1: The World of Integration
    • What is integration?
    • What is driving integration?
    • How do I start interfacing?
    • Challenges of data exchanges
  • Section 2: Introduction to HL7
    • The Flexible Standard
    • HL7 Versions
    • Interface Architecture
    • Most Common Messages
    • Anatomy of a Message
    • Cardinality within HL7
    • Communications: sending and receiving messages

Format

Instructor led | interactive web session

Materials

HL7 First Steps - Core Class Slides. We recommend that you order one booklet for each person attending.

Time

10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. CST

Price

$500 for one connection to the interactive web session
$95 for each copy of the HL7 First Steps – Core Class Slides
HL7 First Steps Seminar Dates

Instructor

Sonal N. Patel, MBA, BS, MT(ASCP) has extensive experience working in healthcare from both the provider and vendor perspectives. Over the past 5 years at Corepoint Health, Sonal has focused on the integration space, building many interfaces using the Corepoint Integration Engine.

Prior to Corepoint Health, Sonal served in various client services, support, and training roles for 9.5 years at Antrim / Sunquest / Misys Healthcare Systems. Sonal began her career in healthcare 19 years ago as a medical technologist. She served as a generalist and laboratory supervisor at Roche Diagnostic / Golden Triangle Regional Medical Center / Baptist Memorial Hospital.

More than ninety percent of healthcare facilities are using some version of HL7 today. Whether you are an IT professional or non-technical application user, some level of HL7 knowledge will be critical to your success.

"The workshop provided an excellent blend of fundamental HL7 theory harmonized with detailed examinations of real world issues. The instructor did a great job of balancing the curriculum to accommodate differing levels of HL7 knowledge and experience."
—John Hines, Technical Project Manager

Pardee Hospital