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Certification Offerings

Unlock Your Potential with HL7 Certification

Are you ready to take your career to new heights?

Whether you're a seasoned professional seeking to validate your expertise or an aspiring enthusiast eager to stand out in the dynamic field of healthcare technology, HL7 offers a range of certifications tailored to your needs. As a globally recognized leader in health data exchange standards, HL7 empowers you to harness the power of cutting-edge frameworks like FHIR and master the intricacies of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Version 2 (V2) messaging. With an HL7 certification, you gain more than a credential; you gain a passport to shaping the future of healthcare connectivity.

HL7 offers certification and proficiency testing to assess the knowledge and proficiency of its most frequently used health IT standards.

HL7 FHIR® Certification

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) is HL7’s next-generation standards framework which builds on, and combines, the best features of  Version 2 (V2) and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) while leveraging the latest web standards and focusing on the ability to implement.

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What FHIR principles does the exam cover?

  • Fundamental FHIR resource concepts
  • Exchange mechanisms
  • Conformance and implementation guidance
  • How to incorporate terminology
  • How to build safe and secure FHIR solutions
  • The FHIR maintenance process
  • How to use and work with FHIR licensing and
  • Intellectual property (IP)

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This introductory, four-week online workshop is offered three times per year. It provides an in-depth overview of HL7 FHIR with hands-on experience and each participant is assigned a tutor. No prior experience required.

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The HL7® FHIR® Intermediate Course is a six-week online course that provides opportunities to apply newly gained knowledge with a set of guided exercises for learning by developing and reviewing working software. 

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The Comprehensive HL7® FHIR® Foundational Implementer Exam Preparation Course is a five-week, self-paced asynchronous course that will prepare participants for taking the HL7 FHIR Foundational Implementer Exam. It covers complete content and all the aspects of the FHIR Foundational Implementer Exam. It teaches the FHIR standard in detail through pre-recorded lectures, reading material, assessments and live Q&A.

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HL7 CDA® Certification

The Clinical Document Architecture (CDA®) is HL7’s primary standard for representing structured clinical documentation on patients for the purposes of health information exchange. The CDA certification exam tests proficiency in the overall attributes of the CDA document. To pass, knowledge of the CDA specification and implementation guides must be demonstrated, including the ability to apply this knowledge in real-world implementation efforts.

What elements does the CDA exam cover?

  • General CDA Concepts and Conformance
  • CDA Extensibility and Backwards/Forwards Compatibility
  • Entry Acts and Relationships
  • Technical Artifacts, Document Exchange and CDA Context

This introductory, four-week online workshop is offered three times per year. It provides an in-
depth overview of HL7 FHIR with hands-on experience and each participant is assigned a tutor. No prior experience required.

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This two-part webinar presents an overview of the CDA, outlines the business case for CDA, its
primary design principles and capabilities and its family of implementation guides.

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Take a deeper dive into CDA Release 2, its derivation from the RIM, and issues relevant to
implementing CDA 2.0 solutions with this two-part webinar.

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Two 90-minute sessions are included to review the CDA standard in preparation for the CDA
Specialist Certificate Exam.

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HL7 V2 Certification

HL7 Version 2 (V2) is the most widely implemented healthcare standard in the world: 95% of US healthcare organizations are users and more than 35 countries have V2 implementations. This is especially true in the exchange of orders, results, admission/discharge/transfer (ADT) and public health communication.

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What does the V2.8 Control Specialist exam test?

  • Proficiency of the Control chapter of the HL7
  • V2 standard
  • V2 specifications and derivative implementation guides
  • Components of messages
  • How messages are formatted, exchanged and interpreted

Recommended Courses

This introductory, four-week online workshop is offered three times per year. It provides an in-
depth overview of HL7 FHIR with hands-on experience and each participant is assigned a tutor. No prior experience required.

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Part 1 introduces participants to HL7 and the basic concepts of Version 2. It discusses the
structure of the standard and covers two of the standard’s fundamental chapters: Control and
Patient Administration.

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Part 2 provides participants with an overview of the Version 2 Orders and Observations
messages and major concepts and provides a sampling of the type of information that can be
communicated using these messages.

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This two-part class takes a deep dive into the message definition and processing rules and data type definitions of the Control chapters of the HL7 Version 2 standard.

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