Within the scope of this consultancy, SRDC provides its know-how for sharing electronic clinical data generated and stored in the hospitals and to transfer these clinical data to Ministry of Health (MoH) services.

SRDC provides assistance on HL7 including “Reference Information Model (RIM)”, “Clinical Document Architecture (CDA)” and “HL7 Version 3 messaging standards”, and “Integrating Health Enterprise (IHE) “ components for document sharing among the health institutes.

The content of the training task includes the following topics:

a)Health Level Seven (HL7)
        a.Introduction and V3 Guide
        b.HL7 Development Framework (HDF)
        c.Foundation
                i.Reference Information Model (RIM)
                ii.Data Types
                iii.Vocabulary
                iv.Refinement Constraint and Localization
                v. Templates Specification
        d. Implementation Technology: UML and XML
        e. Transport Specifications
                i. Abstract Transport Specification
                ii. Web Services Profile – Release 2
        f. HL7 EHR System Functional Model
        g. Service Functional Model Specification (Retrieve, Locate, and Update Service (RLUS))
        h. HL7 Domains
                i. Administrative Management Domains
                        1. Patient Administration
                        2. Personnel Management
                ii. Health And Clinical Management Domains
                        1. Clinical Document Architecture – Release 2
                        2. Laboratory
                        3. Medical Records
                        4. Orders and Observation
                        5. Pharmacy
b) Integrating Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
        i. Introduction
        j. IHE Integration Profiles
                i. Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS)
                        1. Transactions
                            a. Provide and Register Document Set
                            b. Register Document Set
                            c. Query Registry
                            d. Retrieve Document
                        2. Cross Enterprise Sharing of Medical Summaries (XDS-MS)
                        3. Cross Enterprise Sharing of Lab Reports (XDS-LAB)
                ii. Patient Identifier Cross-referencing (PIX)
                        1. Transactions
                            a. Patient Identity Feed
                            b. PIX Query
                            c. PIX Update Notification
c) An Introduction to Security and Privacy Issues in IHE and HL7
d) How these standards can be used in healthcare IT infrastructures