Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Services are brewing @ HL7 v3 2.0

During the last few HL7 Work Group Meetings I noticed something is brewing. Specifically there are a lot of discussions on the Services (SOA) paradigm. At the last WGM in Kyoto (may 2009) someone even said "Messaging is dead, long live messaging". Originally HL7 was focused on messages and documents. The current Service idea synapse was not firing yet. The current state of technology has changed enormously since then. Most of the current ISVs are moving toward Services, even in healthcare IT. But where is HL7 in this? HL7 v3 is a perfect Common Information Model for an SOA! But HL7 v3 needs to accept and embrace the WS-* standards. The Architecture Review Board Workgroup of HL7 is working on this. They are creating the Service Aware Enterprise Architecture Framework (SAEAF) which will take HL7 v3 into the Services era.

See also: Joint OMG/HL7 Project.