An Overview of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Reference Information Model (RIM)

Description

An overview of the healthcare data model that will be used for healthcare messaging throughout the world. The model is an extensible method for representing the data used in the healthcare environment.

Audience

Anyone with an interest in healthcare.

Goals

To provide an overview of the six stereotype classes of the model and their relationships. To enable people to locate the concepts they're familiar with in the model.

After the session, you should be able to:

• recognize the six stereotype classes in the model
• find the appropriate class or class hierarchy containing the concept you're interested in.

Prerequisites

Some familiarity with healthcare is helpful; no knowledge of modeling is necessary