ANN ARBOR, Mich. - According to the initial ballot tally, the Health Level Seven Electronic Health Record-System Functional Model Draft Standard for Trial Use (EHR-S DSTU) has passed the voting requirements to be submitted to the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a DSTU.

These results are preliminary in nature and are subject to a reconciliation process during the HL7 May Working Group Meeting whereby the HL7 EHR Special Interest Group (SIG) will address negative ballots. So while the end result will remain the same, the final tallies will likely change (negative ballots could be retracted or withdrawn and changed to positive, for example).

The EHR document consists of four distinct sections: EHR-S FunctionalOverview, Direct Care, Supportive, and Information Infrastructure. Each ofthese sections was balloted and tallied independently, each attained thenecessary participation quorum of at least 60 percent of the ballot pool, and eachhas attained the two-thirds affirmative votes necessary to pass ballot.

More detailed information will be made available during the HL7 May Working Group Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. A press conference call has beenscheduled at 11 a.m. Central Time (local San Antonio time) on Thursday, May6, 2004. Please RSVP to jhimlin@HL7.org for dial-in information.