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We do lab software integrations and are looking into the world of making them play fair with Cerner or Epic for hospital labs. I'm new to this area and am trying to figure out whether we would likely need to use HL7v2 or v3 for any reason instead of the (much saner) FHIR standard. I've found references to doing things with Mirth Connect and HL7v2 and am trying to sort out if that's ever necessary anymore. We'd be doing things like getting orders and samples into our end and sending results back.

Amit Joshi
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Iain Duncan
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FHIR is still new; both Cerner and Epic are working hard on their implementations for exposing EHR data, but they are not actually in production at this point. You'll have to investigate with your potential implementation partners whether the time frame for FHIR to become available - for your use cases - before you decide whether FHIR is the right way for you to go

Grahame Grieve
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  • Cool, thanks for clearing that up. Hard to tell from the various "press releasy" web sites on FHIR how close the implementations are. I guess the take away is "don't count on it yet" eh? It sure looks a lot more pleasant.... – Iain Duncan Apr 13 '16 at 21:32
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Also, you need to be aware of regulatory requirements. There are lab reporting requirements in the US which require HL7 v2.5.1 (or is it 2.7.1). That particular regulation may or may not apply to you. Just be aware and look for such things.

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