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What is Health Level Seven (HL7) and what does the 7 7 refers to the seventh layer in HL7

in HL7 mean?

2. Name at least five different health care application areas included as part o f the HL7 environment? Following are the healthcare applicaitons included as part of HL7 1) Patient Administration 2) Order Entry 3) Financial Management 4) Observation reporting 5)Master files and indesxes 6) Scheduling and logistics 7) Patient care 8) Patient Referral 3. What are the advantages/disadvantages of either using a dedicated, proprietar y interface and an interface using HL7? HL7 is universal and provides interoperability across disparate systems - I need more clarity on this 4. Is it possible to run HL7 on different network architectures such as DECnet, SNA and TCP/IP? HL7 is supported on top of TCP/IP, LLP. Not sure of other network architectures 5. Does the HL7 Standard address how transmission errors should be dealt with? HL7 checks for transmission errors in lower level from where it is initiated. Sending machien waits for acknowledgement of message from receiver 6. Why do you think that the A01 is the most common trigger event? A01 - This is patient admit trigger event 7. Which type of messages are specially designed to exchange information between different healthcare facilities such as hospitals and long-term care clinics? OBX,OBR messages - Need more clarity on this 8. What is the function of a medical record in the context of a physician making a round on a department (ward)? This records full patient history including disease diagnized, medical , case st atus 9. What are the three types of messages typically used in the process of a nurse scheduling a radiology exam? Not sure - My guess are OBX, ORU, PID (Patient Identifier), PV1 (Patient visit) 10. When a physician wants to send a patient to a specialist, what message domai n is especially designed for this purpose? I see that patient referral has been added to chapter 11 in HL7 v2.7. I request you to let me know where I can find the material. The guide that you have provid ed doesnt include this detail