Friday, January 4, 2019

HL-7 Intro

HL-7 is an international standard used to exchange medical records between healthcare systems. It is introduced by Health level 7 international which is an non profit organization.

Health Level Seven refers to the seventh level(Application Layer) of OSI Model(Open System Interconnection). It specifies commuincation contents and exchange formats on the 7th layer on OSI.

Application layer addresses the definition of data to be exchanged, the timing of the interchange and communication of certain errors to the application.

Application layer function supports security check, availability check, exchange mechanism negotiation and data exchanging structuring.


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