HL7 GELLO Part 1 Overview

This 2007 video provides a rationale for creating a "lingua franca" for asking clinical questions of electronic health data sources, possibly using the HL7 guideline expression language standard GELLO. Such a query language could support use cases like clinical decision support, disseminating drug safety alerts, clinical benchmarking, pay for performance, prior authorization, matching patients to clinical trials, and others. Other videos in this series discuss in greater detail an example of the query language in action using prior authorization as an example and an overview of the open source guideline expression language authoring tool that was created for this project. The original effort was sponsored by Pfizer Inc; participants included experts from WebReach (the creators of the open source HL7 interface engine Mirth), InferMed and Partners HealthCare. Though the open source authoring tool is no longer in active development, there is still a need for such a shared tool; the source code is still available and could be further advanced by interested stakeholders. Please contact ross "at" rossmartinmd.com for more information.

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