Health Life Horizon Project & HL7 Business Case Project Director: Dr. Hafiz Farooq Ahmad Technical Team Leads: Maqbool Hussain Muhammad Afzal School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) National University of Science and Technology

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Presentation Scheme Background HL7 Overview HLH Project Case Study HL7 Business Case NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Background Around the world, vast amounts of healthcare information are exchanged on a daily basis. Standardized format is needed to ensure that the data is universally understood and organized. In order to achieve this, all healthcare information must be sent in a specialized healthcare language. The common language that has been developed to overcome these obstacles is HL7. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science HL7 Overview NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Introduction to HL7 Organization Standard Developing Organization ANSI accredited Non-for-profit Volunteer organization Develop specifications not software HL7 Mission HL7 provides standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity and enhance knowledge transfer among all of our stakeholders, including healthcare providers, government agencies, the vendor community, fellow SDOs and patients. Vision To create the best and most widely used standards in healthcare. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Benefits of HL7 Open - it is a platform and technology independent standard Globally leading healthcare interoperability standard Widely accepted standard (above 93% hospitals uses HL7 in US) Reduces paper work, improves decision-support NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

HL7 Use among Healthcare Providers V3 Methodology Tutorial HL7 Use among Healthcare Providers 7/16/2018 HIMMS* 1997 Leadership Survey *Health Information and Management Systems Society NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science © 1999, Health Level 7

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science HL7 Standards Version 2.x 2.0 (1988) 2.1 (1990) 2.2 (1996) 2.3 (1997) 2.4 (2001) 2.5 (2003) 2.6 (2005) Version 3.x 3.0 (2002) HL7 Version 2.x ASCII-based US-based HL7 Version 3.x XML-based Localization Concept NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

31 international affiliates HL7 World Wide Over 500 organizational members. Over 2200 total members around the world. 31 international affiliates Argentina Australia Brazil Bulgaria Canada China Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Finland France Germany Greece India Ireland Italy Japan Korea Lithuania Malaysia Mexico New Zealand Netherland Poland South Africa Switzerland Spain Taiwan Turkey Uruguay The United Kingdom NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science HLH Project NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Health Life Horizon Project Overview Standard Laboratory Domain Patient Administration Domain Pharmacy Domain HL7 Domains HL7 Version 3 CDA Research SOA for HL7 Ontology based HL7 HLH Adapter HL7 V2 & V3 Conversion Transportation Web Services MLLP ebXML NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Project Objectives Service Orientated HL7 Ontology-based HL7 Research Objective Service Orientated HL7 Ontology-based HL7 Academic Objective Academia-Industry Collaboration HL7 Certification Training Industrial Objective Availability of open source HL7 version 3 Revenue generation from customization Human Resource Development Objective IT professionals and researchers training on HL7 Bunch of opportunities for young researchers Other Objective Produce HL7 experts around the world HL7 affiliations NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Project Current Status We are currently targeting Laboratory Domain. The selection of next domain is depends upon requirements and urgency. Health Care Domains Pharmacy Patient Administration Billing and Accounting Laboratory NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Case Study CITILAB (Pakistan) NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

CITILab Current Problems Mailing charges is cost overhead. Deliveries of reports are often delayed that leads to patient dissatisfaction. Lack of reliable delivery of reports: report results are dictated via phone which are often error prone. Manual entry at sender and receiver side is time consuming. Customers will not ready to attend the lab due to not entertainment of urgent reports, which need outer lab communication. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science What CITILab Requires The messages exchanged among different branches/collection points should deliver information of patients, test orders, test results and patient bills. The messages exchanged should be automated by eliminating human manual entry to the system. The information should be reliably communicated. The information should be confidential, even if interrupted by intruder during transmission, it should not be interpreted. The system should also be able to exchange messages with other authorized laboratories information systems. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

HL7 Application Scenario Hospital Management System HL7 V.3 Application Data Network HL7 Message HL7 application will act as middleware used in same way for other Healthcare Systems. Laboratory Information System HL7 V.3 Application Data NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science HL7 Business Case NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science HL7 Business Case HL7 is adapting all over the world due to Globally leading healthcare interoperability standard True, consistent and futuristic standard Doctors, Hospitals and other Healthcare centers are looking for HL7 to share information But There is lack of HL7 experts around the world. So opportunity doors are open to all of us. NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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