AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2005--Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and Health Level Seven, Inc. (HL7) are pleased to announce a joint membership discount structure to reward companies that join or renew membership in both organizations. This program emerged from the updated agreement between the two organizations as announced in June of this year. That agreement calls for increased and complementary activities between CDISC and HL7. Offering discount memberships is an effective means of bringing the members and work of the two organizations together in a way that is both complementary and beneficial to the organizations, their members, and industry stakeholders.