Alschuler Associates, LLC (AALLC) provides consulting and
development services in support of standards-based healthcare
information exchange. The company was established in May, 2005, and now
employs eight full-time consultants and the same number of part-time
consultants and support staff. East Thetford, Vermont, is the
headquarters of the Principal, Liora Alschuler, and the company operates
in a virtual environment with offices across the US, Canada and Japan.
Mission: Our mission is to make health information
available across the spectrum of care, supporting safe, effective,
affordable healthcare by developing comprehensive electronic records
that also sustain public health, quality reporting and research.
Expertise: Our particular area of expertise is the design
and implementation of Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) compliant
systems, including validation, document management, authoring, data
conversion and web services for information exchange. We support these
implementations with extensive background and depth in Extensible Markup
Language (XML), healthcare terminologies and project management. We
couple our knowledge of standards with an appreciation for real-world
solutions that meet immediate needs.
Standards Leadership: Alschuler was one of the original
authors of the CDA and helped establish XML as the default syntax for
HL7. She was an HL7 Director 2005-2008 and is a Co-chair of the HL7
Structured Documents Work Group. The company has developed extensive CDA
resources which it makes available to the community, including the
original validating rule set for the Continuity of Care Document (CCD),
an online validator and enhancements to the public CDA style sheet.
Associates hold leadership positions in the Health Information
Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and the HL7 Infrastructure and
Messaging Work Group. The company was a co-founder of the Health Story
Project (CDA for Common Document Types) which develops and brings to
ballot CDA implementation guides covering the complete medical record.
In addition to HL7-centered activity, AALLC has been active in projects
working closely with IHE, DICOM, IHTSDO (SNOMED) and LOINC.
