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A J a va API for HL7 Vers ion 3 RIM Todd Freter Program Manager Write once, run anywhere Web Technologies and Standards Useful abbreviations HL7 = Health Level Seven, Inc. SIG = Special Interest Group V3 = Version 3 RIM = Reference Information Model RMIM = Refined Message Information Model HMD = Hierarchical Message Definition HIMSS = Health Information Management Systems Society ebXML = Electronic Business XML W3C = World Wide Web Consortium OASIS = Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards Suns HL7 work Evangelize ebXML frame work for electronic business Co-chair HL7 Java SIG Represent Java SIG in HL7 Interoperability events (e.g., HIMSS 2003) Support Java SIG code development by recruiting volunteers and funding work by experts under contract with Sun Background: XML at HL7 Prior to 1996, HL7 developed EDI formats for healthcare information interchange Kona Project, 1996: Explored using SGML in healthcare SGML/XML SIG chartered in 1997 with three working groups – Documents: Patient Record Architecture – Messaging: Message encoding in XML – Education: Teaching HL7 about XML Foundation for HL7 Version 3, the XML-based standard (to be balloted this year) HL7 Java SIG Sponsored by HL7 Control/Query TC Chartered to develop Java API to HL7 V3 RIM, which uses XML Supported by – Sun Microsystems – Oracle – McKesson – US Veterans Administration – Regenstrief Institute (University of Indiana) Goals of HL7 Java SIG Encourage adoption of HL7 V3 Foster HL7 V3 application interoperability Provide universal HL7 API for full range of healthcare applications Provide sample implementations