NZHUG - HL7 New Zealand

About NZHUG

Tuesday, 31 October 2006

The New Zealand Health Level 7 User Group (NZHUG/HL7) is a national forum dedicated to the achievement of interoperability in healthcare information systems. It is focussed on the evolving HL7 International Standard, but not limited to it.

Mission
"To provide a comprehensive framework and related standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information that supports clinical practice and the management, delivery and evaluation of health services. Specifically, to create flexible, cost effective standards, guidelines, and methodologies to enable healthcare information system interoperability and sharing of electronic health records.

These efforts enable effective, efficient communication between the constituents of the healthcare community as represented by our membership, which consists of an international community of healthcare organizations, vendors, healthcare information systems developers, consultants, systems integrators, and related public and private health services agencies.

The mission of HL7 encompasses the complete 'life cycle' of a standards specification - development, adoption, market recognition, utilization and adherence. The HL7 specifications are unified by shared reference models of the healthcare and technical domains."

Principles of NZHUG
The user group shall be established on the following basic principles:

Open membership.
Democratic election of the Board and technical leaders.
Not-for-profit.
Consensus-based qualified-majority balloting process.
Wide representation of stakeholders.

Functions of NZHUG

Acting as forum for HL7 related standards development in NZ.
Developing a repository of skills and knowledge.
Having an educational role.
Acting as a consultancy on use of HL7 standards.
Developing compliance testing.
Event management (organising technical meetings, teleconferences, annual meetings).
Co-ordination of local involvement in development work.
Representing the needs of the NZ community in the above.
Developing a support infrastructure for NZHUG members (e.g. secretariat, email lists, web sites, and bulletin boards).
Establishing contact with and participation in the HL7 international community.
HL7 New Zealand has a strategic alliance with HL7 Australia.

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