2016-08-16 Meeting notes

Date

Attendees

Goals

  • Develop an implementation guide for standardised HL7 V2 messaging for Pathology orders and results

  • Timeline:
    • July - Draft ready for working group meeting
    • August  - Document ready for Ballot
    • September - Open for ballot
    • November - Ready to publish

Discussion items   

Item
Who
Notes
Discuss the localisation standard

Former user (Deleted)

  • include Australian references such as "Requesting" not "Ordering"; "Reports" not "Results, etc.
  • refer to laboratories as "Pathology practices"; and report receivers as "Clinical information systems";
  • when indicating a Australian constraint, use the term "by Australian consensus";
  • table contents that are no used in Australia should be indicated by strikethrough of the term;
  • table contents that are possible values, use the blue highlight of the line in the table;
  • add more detailed content to datatypes section, copy from the International version (Donna);
  • add issues when senders use test messages into the common errors section (Eric);
  • add issues when reporting using bullets, as reports likely to have "?" as the bullet is not recognised character; add to common issues (Eric);
  • use "Must" as a standard and "Should" as a guideline;
  • discuss whether PIT format should be allowed.

Action items

Add content to Datatypes from International standard Former user (Deleted)