HL7 Australia CCOW Resources Page

What is CCOW? The HL7 CCOW (Clinical Context Object Workgroup) Standard is vendor independent and allows clinical applications to share information at the point of care. Using a technique called "context management", CCOW provides the clinician with a unified view on the information held in separate and disparate healthcare applications referring to the same patient, encounter or user.  This means that when a clinician signs on to one application within the group of disparate applications tied together by the CCOW environment, that same sign-on is simultaneously executed on all other applications within the group. Similarly, when the clinician selects a patient, the same patient is selected in all the applications. CCOW then builds a combined view of the patient on one screen. CCOW works for both client-server and web-based applications. The acronym CCOW stands for "Clinical Context Object Workgroup", a reference to the standards committee within the HL7 group that developed the standard.  Read more in HL7 CCOW Books and Guides.

The HL7 CCOW Standard
	HL7 CCOW V1.5 Draft Standard (Free download)
	HL7 CCOW V1.4 Standard - included on V2.5 CD-ROM (FREE to HL7 Australia members / $330 non-members)
	HL7 CCOW Overview
	HL7 CCOW Slides
	HL7.org CCOW Committee page

CCOW Resources
	CCOW (Clinical Software Application Context Management standard)
	Sentillion's Vergence Software Development Kit)  (Sentillion Inc. - USA)
	Concerto CCOW Context Manager  (Orion - New Zealand)

Other HL7 Resources
	What is HL7? Introduction, Guide and FAQ
	HL7.org (USA) web site
	HL7 Tools & Resources
	HL7 Books and Manuals
	HL7 Events
	Skype Guide and Information
	The Daily Dilbert

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