| HL7 Australia Mission HL7 Australia is an open, not-for-profit, democratic organisation that supports the HL7 user community by: | ||
| Co-ordinating and championing the development and implementation of the Australian and global family of HL7 standards | Developing skills and knowledge exchange amongst members and the wider informatics community | Promoting HL7 as the most effective standard for systems interoperability, EDI message interfaces and information management in healthcare |
HL7 Australia strives to collaborate with Standards Australia and the IT14 Health Informatics Committee to best achieve this Mission.
Statement of Collaboration
Principles of Collaboration
HL7 Australia recognises that the development and implementation of health informatics standards in Australia must involve the active collaboration with Standards Australia, and that there is value in clarifying the broad roles and responsibilities of each organisation.
HL7 Australia will:
• Maintain open lines of communication
• Collaborate in a spirit of mutual appreciation, respect and openness
• Seek pragmatic solutions to create a series of HL7 standards for health care communications
HL7 Australia re-affirms that:
• we support SA and IT14 in their role as the national standards developer.
• we coordinate Australia’s activity in the international HL7 Working Group and related meetings.
• in areas not covered by IT14, we will facilitate Australia’s input to HL7 standards development.
• we provide education and events relating to HL7.
• we encourage complete openness in the sharing of technical documents.
Approved by the HL7 Australia Board, May 2003 (confirmed by SA and IT14 June 2003)