Over ninety percent of US hospitals and health institutions use the HL7 standard for communication and data exchange. The P & S Network systems adhere to HL7 standards for all our system communication transactions.

What Does the Name HL7 Mean?

"Level Seven" refers to the highest level of the International Standards Organization's (ISO) communications model for Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) - the application level. The application level addresses definition of the data to be exchanged, the timing of the interchange, and the communication of certain errors to the application. The seventh level supports such functions as security checks, participant identification, availability checks, exchange mechanism negotiations and, most importantly, data exchange structuring.