Catalog

Interoperability Course Series

Document

This set of documents covers some computer science basics that for the foundation of interoperability including networks, transport protocols and other fundamental topics.

Year released: 2023

Topics
Computer Science

LOINC & NBS INBSI

Presentation

In the LOINC Primer for Newborn Screening we provide an introduction to LOINC, with a focus on its applications in the newborn screening space. We review how LOINCs are made, how to find the right code for your specific test, and a few cases of what not to do.

Year released: 2022

Topics
Terminology
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Duration: 18 Minutes

Webinar: Introduction to FHIR for Research

Toolkit

Introduction to FHIR for Research is a three-hour training course that aims to provide NIH research scientists and program officers with an understanding of how FHIR could impact their research, and how they can take advantage of it. This webinar covers the background and context of FHIR, what data and tools are available, and examples of research using FHIR. It is broken into three parts:

Part 1: Background and Context of FHIR
This section provides essential background and context on FHIR, including the history and evolution of the standard, its relation to similar frameworks, and its components and data structure.

Part 2: The FHIR Ecosystem
After discussing FHIR background, we'll next turn to discussing the broader ecosystem of FHIR systems and capabilities practitioners can hope to leverage. This section will explore the extent of systems, tools, and applications available to users.

Part 3: Working with FHIR
We will now explore a detailed set of applications for FHIR starting with a sampling of recent FHIR uses in both industry and academia. We will then provide a series of case studies leveraging both Python and R to demonstrate how FHIR can be used to extract and utilize medical data.

Year released: 2023

Topics
HL7 FHIR
Research
Visit

Duration: 2 hours 58 minutes

Logic Modeling

Presentation

An introduction to logic modeling and how it may be used by public health programs. 

Year released: 2022

Topics
Interoperability
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Duration: 17 minutes

Interoperability- Overcoming the Overwhelming

Presentation

In this presentation we hear from Laura Pabst who leads birth defects and neonatal abstinence syndrome surveillance at CDC. This episode follows her journey into the work of interoperability and her hopes for the future of interoperability.

Year released: 2022

Topics
Interoperability
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Duration: 15 minutes

The Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement - TEFCA

Presentation

This presentation is a review of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and its relationship to public health. The recording is a presentation to the Tennessee Informatics Community of Practice.

Year released: 2023

Topics
Data Modernization
TEFCA
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Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes

Data Modernization Planning Toolkit

Toolkit

The Data Modernization Planning Toolkit supports Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) for Prevention and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases recipients in planning data modernization ventures at health departments. This guide will help build leadership and partner buy-in for data modernization work and assist health departments in developing plans that prioritize data modernization activities.

Year released: 2022

Topics
Data Modernization
DMI

Baby Steps Toward Defining the HL7 Message

Toolkit

This document is a companion to Section 1D of the Building Blocks Guide. It describes the steps required for HL7 message definition and provides additional information on the tools and topics discussed in the Guide, including the Implementation Workbook and the Message Validation Template.

Year released: 2018

Topics
HL7
HL7 CDA
HL7 FHIR
HL7 V2

Reframing Public Health Informatics: A Communications Toolkit

eLearning

Reframing Public Health Informatics is a collection of evidence-based framing recommendations and sample communications designed to help the public health workforce talk about informatics—what it is, how it works, and why its contributions are so important to achieving the goal of improved population health.

Year released: 2022

Topics
All Programs
Communications

Fundamentals of IIS - Data Quality

eLearning

Part of Fundamentals of IIS series along with Interoperability and HL7 Basics. Goes over key concepts related to the characteristics of IIS data quality, how it's measured, examples of issues, and strategies for improvements.

Year released: 2021

Topics
Immunizations
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Duration: Self-paced, should take ~30 min

Fundamentals of IIS - Interoperability

eLearning

Part of Fundamentals of IIS series along with Data Quality and HL7 Basics. Goes over the concepts of data exchange between IIS and other systems.

Year released: 2021

Topics
HL7
Immunizations
Interoperability
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Duration: Self-paced, should take ~30 min

Fundamentals of IIS - HL7 Basics

eLearning

Part of Fundamentals of IIS series along with Data Quality and Interoperability. Goes over the HL7 V2 standard, why it's used for immunization messaging, what the impacts are on IIS, and IIS responsibilities related to HL7.

Year released: 2021

Topics
HL7
HL7 V2
Immunizations
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Duration: Self-paced, should take ~30 min

Advanced HL7 for IIS

eLearning

Exploration of conformance, constraints, and message profiles

Year released: 2021

Topics
HL7
HL7 V2
Immunizations
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Duration: Self-paced, should take ~45 min

Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting

eLearning

Immunization Evaluation and Forecasting; how it works, how forecasting functionality is implemented, and how the rules are maintained/tested in an IIS

Year released: 2021

Topics
Immunizations
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Duration: Self-paced, should take ~45 min

FHIR 101

Presentation

A first-time attendee video for the HL7 FHIR Connectathon describes hands-on FHIR development and testing. The first two hours focus on an overview of FHIR, profiling, and implementation guides. The third hour is focused on what to expect at HL7 FHIR Connectathons. Time stamps for specific topics are provided below:
FHIR 101
6:10 FHIR Timeline
13:04 Regulatory drivers behind FHIR
13:35 Basics of FHIR (Overview)
15:45 Benefits of FHIR
17:35 Navigating the Specification
20:00 Resources
22:50 Profile
24:45 Extensions
26:45 FHIR Operations
28:00 Terminology
29:05 Modules
30:30 Scenario Example
32:30 Resource Content
34:20 Terminology Bindings
35:30 Search Parameters
36:10 Example Resource
37:30 References between Resources
40:15 Structure and Coding
41:40 Value Sets
43:00 Profiling
44:30 REST and APIs, SMART on FHIR
47:50 CDS Hooks
48:50 Bulk Data Access
49:00 CQL

How to Read an IG
53:00 Why do we need implementation guides?
54:00 What is an FHIR Implementation Guide?
54:50 Navigating the FHIR Implementation Guide
58:40 Homepage
59:40 Framework/Guidance
1:00:00 Use Cases/ Examples
1:02:50 FHIR Artifacts
1:04:10 Profiles
1:09:30 Slicing
1:10:45 Conformance
1:12:00 Terminologies
1:13:50 Operations
1:16:10 Capability Statement
1:18:25 Tips and Tricks
1:22:00 Where do you find FHIR IGs?

US Core Profiles
1:27:40 Cures Act Final Rule
1:29:00 Argonaut Project
1:32:10 US FHIR Core
1:34:30 Argonaut vs US Core
1:36:00 Profile-less FHIR
1:39:30 Profile Deep Dive
1:43:00 US Core Patient
1:44:50 Value Sets
1:47:30 US Core Capability Statement
1:48:30 Extensions
1:49:00 US Core and USCDI
1:51:45 Standards Version Advancement Process (SVAP)
1:54:00 USCDI ONDEC
1:55:20 Journey to US Core
2:01:30 Inferno
2:02:30 Future of Argonaut and US Core
2:04:50 Data vs Narrative

FHIR Testing, Tools, and Heading to a Connectathon
2:11:15 Interoperability Challenges
2:13:00 The 5 “Ws”
2:23:50 Testing with Touchstone
2:42:20 Connectathon Testing Experience

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 FHIR
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Duration: 3.5 Hours

FHIR Bulk Data API

Presentation

Healthcare organizations have many reasons for bulk-data export, such as populating a data warehouse for operational or clinical analytics, leveraging population health and decision support tools from external vendors, and submitting data to registries and regulatory agencies. Today, bulk export is often accomplished with proprietary pipelines, and data transfer operations frequently involve an engineering and field mapping project. Learn about an exciting new effort by SMART and HL7 to bring the FHIR standard to bear on these challenges of bulk-data export.

Year released: 2019

Topics
Bulk Data
HL7 FHIR
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Duration: 42 Minutes

An Overview of the Onboarding Process

Presentation

In this presentation, we will go over the process for onboarding a data submitter for HL7-based interoperability.

Year released: 2022

Topics
Interoperability
Onboarding
Testing
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Duration: 10 Minutes

The Interoperability Testing Process

Presentation

This presentation will describe why testing is critical to the success of an interoperability project. We will review the different types of testing that are commonly performed during a project in more detail. Also, we will provide some tips and tricks to make your testing more successful.

Year released: 2022

Topics
Interoperability
Onboarding
Testing
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Duration: 27 Minutes

Introduction to lab orders (LOI) and results (LRI) IGs

Presentation

This presentation reviews the history of the laboratory orders (LOI) and results (LRI) implementation guides in general, some of the common aspects shared between them and how these standards are used together

Year released: 2022

Topics
HL7 V2
Laboratory
Standards
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Duration: 23 Minutes

Common features to lab orders (LOI) and results (LRI) IGs

Presentation

This presentation discusses how the laboratory orders (LOI) and results (LRI) implementation guides are written and some of the ways they are different from other v2 standards.

Year released: 2022

Topics
HL7 V2
Laboratory
Standards
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Duration: 14 Minutes

Vocabulary for lab orders (LOI) and results (LRI) IGs

Presentation

This presentation discusses how the values sets used by the laboratory orders (LOI) and results (LRI) implementation guides are documented.

Year released: 2022

Topics
HL7 V2
Laboratory
Standards
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Duration: 11 Minutes

Lab orders (LOI) messages

Presentation

This presentation describes the use cases encompassed by the laboratory orders (LOI) implementation guide and details some of the unique features of the profiles defined in the standard.

Year released: 2022

Topics
HL7 V2
Laboratory
Standards
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Duration: 31 Minutes

Lab results (LRI) concepts

Presentation

This presentation describes the use case encompassed by the laboratory results (LRI) implementation guide and details some of the unique concepts in the standard including snapshot mode and parent-child linkages

Year released: 2022

Topics
HL7 V2
Laboratory
Standards
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Duration: 17 Minutes

Lab Results (LRI) profiles

Presentation

This presentation describes some of the technical constraints included in the profiles used by the laboratory results (LRI) implementation guide.

Year released: 2022

Topics
HL7 V2
Laboratory
Standards
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Duration: 26 Minutes

Applying FHIR® to STLT Public Health PHFIC #1

Presentation

Resources resulting from a Public Health FHIR Implementation Collaborative workshop include a high-level overview of FHIR, a more in-depth review of the rules, regulations, and policy framework behind interoperability, and a workshop summary.

Year released: 2022

Topics
All Programs
HL7
HL7 FHIR
Interoperability
Meaningful Use/Promoting Interoperability
TEFCA
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Duration: 24 minutes

Touring the HL7 V2 Message

Course

The goal of this course is to help orient new informaticians to the HL7 V2 message structure and take a deep dive into message content.

Year released: 2022

Topics
HL7 V2

Why Clinical Terminology Matters Presentation

Presentation

A short history of experience in recording clinical ideas in computer systems over the past forty years. This sets the context for the requirements associated with the adoption and development of SNOMED CT.

Year released: 2019

Topics
Terminology
Related Trainings
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Duration: 33 Minutes

Introduction To SNOMED CT

Presentation

This presentation provides general information about the background and nature of SNOMED CT.

Year released: 2021

Topics
Terminology
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Duration: 16 Minutes

TEFCA Overview

Presentation

This presentation provides an overview of the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) which has the overall goal to establish a floor of universal interoperability across the country. The Common Agreement will establish the infrastructure model and the governing approach for users in different networks to securely share basic clinical information with each other—all under commonly agreed-to expectations and rules.

 

Year released: 2022

Topics
Exchange Framework
Interoperability
TEFCA
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Duration: 60 Minutes

FHIR Fact Sheets

Document

These FHIR Fact Sheets are a collaborative effort to help educate and demystify FHIR. These fact sheets summarize the key technical concepts that make up the foundation of FHIR, how it is developed in an open and public process, and why FHIR adoption has become the focus of the health IT standards world.

Year released: 2021

Topics
HL7 FHIR

Informatics Workforce Position Classifications and Descriptions

Toolkit

Four template job descriptions covering Executive, Management, Clinical and Professional roles. These may be a good starting point for putting together job descriptions for your program.

Year released: 2014

Topics
All Programs
Staffing

Fishbone Diagram (Cause and Effect)

Presentation

A fishbone diagram helps team members visually diagram a problem or condition's root causes, allowing them to truly diagnose the problem rather than focusing on symptoms.

Topics
All Programs
Decision Making
Quality Improvement
Related Trainings

Fishbone Diagram (Ishikawa)

PDF

A Fishbone document is used to explore the potential root causes of a problem.

Topics
All Programs
Decision Making
Quality Improvement

Birth Defect Surveillance

Self Assessment

Readiness assessment designed to increase state birth defects program capability to exchange electronic health information with clinical electronic health records systems (EHRs).

Year released: 2021

Topics
Birth Defects
Project Management

Self-Assessment Tool for Public Health Laboratories

Self Assessment

Allows public health laboratories to assess strengths and gaps in informatics capability by addressing 19 critical operational areas

Topics
Laboratory
Self-assessment

Introduction to HL7 Study Guide

Presentation

In this training, we'll cover interoperability, the background and history of HL7, and the main HL7 standards that are used in public health. By the end of this video, you will be able to: define interoperability, distinguish between syntactic and semantic interoperability, examine the history

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
Interoperability
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Duration: 14 Minutes

Getting Started With Authoring with RCKMS

Presentation

The Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) is a real-time portal to enhance disease surveillance by providing comprehensive information on public health reporting criteria. Learn about authoring in the RCKMS.

Year released: 2020

Topics
Case Reporting
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Duration: 29 Minutes

Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) Authoring The Big Picture

Presentation

The Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) is a real-time portal to enhance disease surveillance by providing comprehensive information on public health reporting criteria. Hear an overview about authoring in the RCKMS.

Year released: 2020

Topics
Case Reporting
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Duration: 18 Minutes

The Difference Between eCR and Traditional Case Reporting

Presentation

Learn the difference between eCR and traditional case reporting. See how eCR is a faster process to receive and send more complete data.

Year released: 2021

Topics
Case Reporting
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Duration: 3 Minutes

A General Introduction to FHIR

Presentation

A General Introduction to FHIR, presented by Richard Ettema at HL7 FHIR DevDays, June 2018, Boston, MA

Year released: 2018

Topics
All Programs
HL7 FHIR
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Duration: 45 Minutes

Introduction to the FHIR specification

Presentation

The interoperability of data, and delivery of a consistent level of data quality, are critical factors in the National Digital Health Strategy – both for quality of immediate care, and for the development of longer-term health strategies. This is the first of a three-part webinar series looking at interoperability and clinical terminologies, with a particular focus on the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), a key standard for interoperable data in Australia.

Year released: 2018

Topics
All Programs
HL7 FHIR
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Duration: 43 Minutes

Terminology Fundamentals - FHIR Implementation Guide Creation Training

Presentation

HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide Creation Training - Terminology Fundamentals

Year released: 2019

Topics
HL7 FHIR
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Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

Interoperability Training Courses

Interactive Document

Training modules around the Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) Rule to train Eligible Professional (EPs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) on how to implement new standards

Year released: 2017

Topics
All Programs
Meaningful Use/Promoting Interoperability

Understanding LOINC concepts and uses

Presentation

This two-part presentation 1)provides content on: the History of LOINC as an organization and a community of users; a definition of LOINC and LOINC code basics; the LOINC concept model; the six LOINC axeses; and resources for learning more about LOINC. 2) an overview of a typical mapping project using LOINC.

Year released: 2020

Topics
All Programs
Terminology
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Duration: 1 Hour

Newborn Screening Interoperability Standards

Presentation

In this presentation, we will define use case in an implementation guide, go over an HL7 v2 message, and review each of the newborn screening standards that exist today.

Year released: 2021

Topics
HL7 V2
Interoperability
Newborn Screening
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Duration: 25 Minutes

Change Management and Stakeholder Engagement for Interoperability Efforts in Newborn Screening​

Presentation

This training will focus on; Preparing for change; What is change management; Why is change management important; Who is involved in change management; and​ When do you address change management in an interoperability approach. In addition, in the second part of this webinar we will touch on the “how” of change management with some high-level strategies for approaching change management in interoperability work.

Year released: 2021

Topics
Project Management
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Duration: 52 Minutes

NIST - General Validation Tool

Presentation

In this presentation, we dive deep into NIST's General Validation Tool for evaluating the quality of v2 messages.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
Interoperability
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Duration: 13 Minutes

Using the NIST v2 authoring and validation tools

Presentation

In this presentation, we provide an overview of the suite of tools developed by the National Institute for Standards and Technology to document v2 standards & test cases and to validate test messages against those requirements.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
Interoperability
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Duration: 7 Minutes

How to Read a v2 Implementation Guide - Profiles

Presentation

In this presentation, we will see how IG authors use profiles to add specific rules and constraints to the base standard to achieve the goals of the IG's use case.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
Interoperability
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Duration: 24 Minutes

How to Read a v2 Implementation Guide - Vocabulary and Data Types

Presentation

In this presentation, we will examine some building blocks of the v2 IG, vocabulary, and data types.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
Interoperability
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Duration: 17 Minutes

How to Read a v2 Implementation Guide - Setting the Context

Presentation

In this presentation, we will look at the first sections of a v2 implementation guide to see how the documents set the context for interoperability.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
Interoperability
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Duration: 11 Minutes

Acknowledgment Messages - Part 3

Presentation

This video presentation reviews how the authors of the existing newborn screening implementation guides describe the use of Acknowledgment messages. We also discuss the use of common error codes as a way to simplify addressing errors in processing.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
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Duration: 19 Minutes

Acknowledgment Messages - Part 2

Presentation

This video presentation goes into more detail about how the HL7 v2 standard permits the use of Acknowledgment messaging. We also look at how the use of intermediaries impacts Acknowledgment message flow.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
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Duration: 25 Minutes

Acknowledgment Messages - Part 1

Presentation

This video presentation introduces the idea of using HL7 v2 Acknowledgment messages to communicate with data submitters. Acknowledgments are an important way to let submitters know when a message is processed and if any errors were encountered during processing.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 V2
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Duration: 21 Minutes

Project US@

Presentation

This short presentation describes the Project US@ aims to standardize addresses in healthcare

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
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Duration: 7 Minutes

The ISA

Presentation

This short presentation describes the ONC's Interoperability Standards Advisory and how it gets updated

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
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Duration: 7 Minutes

The USCDI

Presentation

This short presentation describes the ONC's US Core Data for Interoperability and how it gets updated

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
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Duration: 8 Minutes

FHIR Resource Walk Through

Presentation

This video presentation will explore the details of how FHIR resources are defined and used. We'll walk through examples to see how the FHIR standard is implemented to exchange real-world data.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 FHIR
Interoperability
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Duration: 29 Minutes

Introduction to FHIR

Presentation

This video presentation will review the latest HL7 interoperability standard, FHIR. We'll put FHIR into context relative to other HL7 products and examine how FHIR defines resources to represent a variety of different healthcare entities and events. We'll also discuss how Public Health programs

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 FHIR
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Duration: 18 Minutes

The HL7 Product Families

Presentation

In this presentation, we will be introducing the different HL7 product families that are used to exchange clinical data.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
HL7 CDA
HL7 FHIR
HL7 V2
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Duration: 12 Minutes

Structure of a v2 HL7 message

Presentation

In this presentation, we will discuss the different message types and their trigger events. Then we will go over the structure of an HL7 Version 2 message.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
HL7 V2
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Duration: 15 Minutes

Navigating the v2 Base Standard

Presentation

n this presentation we will explore the location, organization and content of the v2 base standard.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
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Duration: 26 Minutes

What is HL7?

Presentation

In this presentation, we will describe the purpose and organization of the Health Level 7 (HL7) standards development organization

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
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Duration: 12 Minutes

Introduction to Standards

Presentation

In this presentation, we will give an introduction to standards. We review what standards are, why they are important, and how they are developed and implemented.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
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Duration: 9 Minutes

Introduction to Interoperability

Presentation

In this presentation, we introduce interoperability. We define important terms and building blocks for achieving interoperability in Newborn Screening programs.

Year released: 2021

Topics
All Programs
Interoperability
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Duration: 13 Minutes

Evaluation for Public Health Informatics

Presentation

Evaluation in the context of public health informatics and discuss why evaluation is necessary

Year released: 2018

Topics
All Programs
Informatics
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Duration: 36 Minutes

Key Concepts and Terminology in Public Health Informatics

Presentation

Definition and value proposition for Public Health informatics

Year released: 2018

Topics
All Programs
Informatics
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Duration: 1 Hour

Communicating the Value of Public Health Informatics

Presentation

Communicating the Value of Public Health Informatics

Year released: 2018

Topics
All Programs
Communications
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Duration: 41 Minutes

Introduction to Laboratory Informatics: Life of a Result

Course

This course provides information on the role and processes of laboratory informatics through exploration of the “life of a result” as data and results move through the laboratory and outside the laboratory. Topics covered include characterization of the recipients of laboratory data, data and results storage, and the communication of data and results (especially electronically) to various stakeholders

Year released: 2019

Topics
Laboratory

Competencies for Public Health Informaticians

PDF

Definition of the knowledge, skills, and abilities of those working in the discipline

Year released: 2009

Topics
All Programs
Staffing
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Duration: 45 Minutes to 1 Hour

Introduction to the LIMS and other Information Systems

Course

This basic-level eLearning course provides an overview of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) – also known as a Laboratory Information System – and other information systems that play a key role in laboratory informatics. Included in the course are explorations of LIMS functionality, the role of the LIMS in interoperability, various regulations and standards regarding information systems and laboratory data, and the steps in implementing a LIMS.

Year released: 2021

Topics
Laboratory
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Duration: 1:30:00

Health IT Implementation Guide and Toolkit

Toolkit

Guidance for initiating and sustaining this project and outlines steps needed to set up electronic messaging with partners

Topics
Newborn Screening
Project Management

Introduction to Laboratory Informatics: Life of a Specimen

Course

This course provides information on the role and processes of laboratory informatics through exploration of the “life of a specimen” as a specimen moves through the laboratory. Topics covered include the roles of various personnel in the laboratory informatics enterprise, data relationships, data quality, and standards, and the generation and flow of information as a specimen progresses through the pre-analytic, analytic, and post-analytic phases.

Year released: 2018

Topics
Laboratory
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Duration: 2:00:00

FHIR Overview for Birth Defect Reporting

Presentation

An overview of the FHIR interoperability standard and how it may be applied to a Public Health use case

Year released: 2020

Topics
All Programs
HL7 FHIR
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Duration: 1:00:44


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