Pitfalls of HL7 3.0 implementations

Now that HL 3.0 is live lets hope that vendors and hospitals start to use the single object model, RIM, and XML syntax. However, as new implementations come down the pike they’ll eventually run into some problems which many other early adopters have encountered. The HL7 UK site reports that over the past year Rene Spronk has been collecting notes about HL7 v3 implementation issues discovered by early implementers, notably in the UK and in the Netherlands.