OBJECTIVE: This study proposes a hospital information system through the design and actualization of the Health Level 7 Development Framework (HDF) as a medical standard data model to sharing medical records between different hospital systems. The Health Level 7 Development Framework is a technique designed to capture domain expertise in a manner that it to be structured to create and validate models, which are subsequently translated into messages.

METHODS: The process used Health Level 7 Development Framework methodology with Health Level 7 tools.

RESULTS: We drew diagrams for each steps of the Health Level 7 Development Framework and an Extensible Markup Language (XML) schema for chemotherapy order system.

CONCLUSION: This study applied Health Level 7 Development Framework methodology to practice. It is a good reference for the hospital information system (HIS) and enables information sharing among healthcare institutions.