HL7 Europe Foundation
Acronym: HL7 Europe
General Information
Identification Code: 717892419762-76
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Entity Form: non-profit private foundation
Registration Category: Think tanks and research institutions
Registration Date: 12/1/2015
Last Update: 4/15/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
Mission & Interests
Goals: Founded in 1987, Health Level Seven International (HL7) is a not-for-profit standards developing organization (SDO) and a founding member of the JIC for Global Health Informatics Standardization. HL7 International is dedicated to providing 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. HL7 International and its more than 38 national or regional affiliates number 4,000+ members from 55 countries, including approximately 1000 corporate members who represent more than 90% of the information systems vendors serving healthcare. HL7 International provides standards for interoperability that improve care delivery, optimize workflow, reduce ambiguity, and enhance knowledge transfer among stakeholders, including healthcare providers, government agencies, the vendor community, fellow SDOs, and patients.
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Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests
Interests:
- Business and industry
- Competition
- Consumers
- Digital economy and society
- Education and training
- Food safety
- Humanitarian aid and civil protection
- International co-operation and development
- Public health
- Regional policy
- Research and innovation
- Single market
- Trade
- Trans-European Networks
Levels of Interest:
- sub-national
- national
- global
- european
Activities
Main EU Legislative Proposals: Specifically, the objectives of HL7 International in collaboration with the Affiliates currently established in 23 European Countries are: (a) to promote and encourage the use of HL7 frameworks and protocol specifications that serve the needs of the European community by health systems and service providers; (b) to seek formal accreditation for these HL7 protocol specifications where necessary; and (c) to enable high quality, cost-effective use of information systems in the widest variety of health and healthcare related environments.
Communication Activities: To advace its objectives, the HL7 Foundation has participated in several projects at the intersection of policy and standardization: the eHealth governance initiative, Semantic HealthNet, ANTILOPE, EXPAND, ASSSESSCT, OpenMedicine. At the same time, it has coordinated Trillium Bridge a project supporting the implementation the EU/US MoU and Roadmap and eStandards which aims to deliver a roadmap for large scale eHealth deployment in Europe.
Currently it is involved in the following projects funded by the European Union: IDEA4RC, UNICOM, OneAquaHealth, XpanDH, Gravitate-Health, Gatekeeper, PANCARESURPASS.
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Artificial intelligence and digital,Cancer
Head Office
Address: 38-40 Square de Meeus
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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EU Office
Address: 38-40 Square de Meeus
Post Code: 1000
City: Brussels
Country: BELGIUM
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Financial Data
New Organisation: false
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Complementary Information: The grants listed above are grants to which HL7 Europe has participated as part of consortia of Horizon 2020 calls.
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 2
Members25 Percent: 7
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 1
Members: 12
Members F T E: 4.699999809265137
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: HL7 Austria
HL7 Belgium
HL7 Bosnia & Herzegovina
HL7 Croatia
HL7 Czech Republic
HL7 Denmark
HL7 Finland
HL7 France
HL7 Germany
HL7 Hellas
HL7 Portugal
HL7 Italy
HL7 Netherlands
HL7 Norway
HL7 Poland
HL7 Portugal
HL7 Romania
HL7 Russia
HL7 Serbia
HL7 Slovenia
HL7 Slovakia
HL7 Spain
HL7 Sweden
HL7 Switzerland
HL7 UK
HL7 Ukraine
Organisation Members: http://www.hl7.org/Special/committees/international/leadership.cfm?ref=nav