HL7 Education
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Operational Overview

HL7 Education is an alliance between HL7 Australia, its members and Central Queensland University. These organizations are committed to working together, to take advantage of industry based experience, expert knowledge and skills and a well developed University infrastructure to support distance, on-line and flexible learning.

Vision

Achieve system interoperability in the Health Industry Sector.

Mission

Curricula

The HL7 Australia educational offerings need to meet the needs of many health IT/IS and health professionals responsible for many different functions in all areas of the health industry. These represent various combinations of content as well as levels of decision making. We have identified three broad areas of content as well as three levels of decision making. These are reflected in the table below with some examples.

Content aspects/Role aspects Business - Operations Healthcare Delivery
System & Clinical		 Information Technology/Systems

Strategy/Policy/Executive High Level Decision Makers

(greatest breadth)
  • How does this improve efficiency?
  • What are the organisational/political implications?
  • How does this improve health outcomes?
  • What information is provided?
  • IT investment
  • Transportability across platforms

System Architect, Feasibility assessment

(equal breadth and depth)

  • system specifications to suit business operations
  • define project scope
  • build business case
  • what resources are required?
  • developing project plan
  • detailed risk analysis
  • HL7 v2 & v3 progress and clinical implications
  • Where is it used?
  • How useful is it?
  • Clinical champion
  • object oriented analysis
  • application of HL7 RIM to local health area
  • identifying areas of need for interfaces
  • overseeing technical aspects

Implementer/Doer

(greatest depth)
  • implement system
  • undertake change management
  • building archetypes
  • develop templates
  • testing – can I use this?
  • making it work (programmers)
  • testing compliance

Each potential student needs to be able to select those modules that provide the most appropriate knowledge, skills and understanding of the 'family' of HL7 standards and associated topics relative to their prior learning/knowledge and individual career aspirations.

The curriculum is being developed to accommodate the subsequent variety of educational needs, from a broad overview of all topics to whatever detail is necessary to prepare a student to undertake the roles at the implementer/doer level for each content stream. Individual courses will also be related to main stream IT/IS/IM offerings.