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The one thing that is missed quite often during deployment and rollout of HL7 (read HL7V2.x) is the “clinical safety” factor. It is not often considered if introducing the messaging is any way compromising the information quality of patient’s data or if it’s introducing any major business changes to the existing clinical workflow in the organisation. Organisations need to stress to the system providers as well as to the system integrators that they ought to consider clinical safety as a major factor in all stages of the rollout including development, deployment and testing. There are ways to ensure that the introduction of HL7 does not compromise clinical safety. This post discusses a approach for this Conformance Accreditor: The organisation needs to employ a system integrator or act itself as one (in case it has a internal tech team) to define conformance standards Conformance Guidelines: The defining of conformance standards need to be based on the following principles 1. Define the