Agree with you about the V3's future in North America. Even if V3 has been officialy released, I am not positive that all major HIS players will adopt it in several years.
What I try to say is in China, it worth a try by refering V3 XML idea. As I understand, it doesn't matter right now in China to use V2.x or V3 (draft), just because there are no dominated standard yet, and hospitals in China are not in the position of exchanging data among multiple institutions.
I also noticed that in this forum, people talks HL7 a lot, but without using controlled vocabulary/terminology(i.e LOINC, ICD, CPT,SNOMED...), I don't see there is much value of only focusing HL7. |