W. Ed Hammond, PhD, a founding member of HL7, has served three terms as the chair of the HL7 Board of Directors and is one of the most astute observers of the international healthcare standardization scene.

The HL7.tv team had the opportunity to talk to him about HL7 and what makes it special at the recent HL7 Plenary and Working Group Meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), where HL7 had the largest number of attendees to date.