Interoperability
Bouhaddou O et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2012
The increased need for interoperable electronic health records in health care organizations underscores the importance of standards. The US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a long history of developing and adopting various types of health care data standards. The authors present in detail their experience in this domain. A formal organization within VA is responsible for helping to develop and implement standards. This group has produced a Standards Life Cycle (SLC) process endorsed by VA key business and information technology (IT) stakeholders. It coordinates the identification, description, and implementation of standards aligned with VA business requirements.
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6 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Adoption, Implementation, Interoperability, Standards
ePractice EU
“The eHealth Network seeks to bring together the national authorities responsible for eHealth on a voluntary basis to work on common orientations for eHealth. The aim is to ensure EU-wide interoperability of electronic health systems and wider use of eHealth.
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17 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): e-Health, Health Information Technology, Interoperability, Networks
Brian Ahier, Google+
“Epic has certainly grown dramatically with 5100 employees & wants to add 1000 more this year. Ten years ago they had 575 employees. They have a total of 260 large customers (like Kaiser Permanente since 2003), including 35 new contracts last year. They claim their systems will cover 127 million patients with active electronic health records by July 2013. They have built an incredible 5,000-square-foot data center among the other interesting components of their new campus.
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16 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Industry, Interoperability
Berges I et al, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, 99
Although the goal of achieving semantic interoperability of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is pursued by many researchers, it has not been accomplished yet. In this paper we present a proposal that smoothes out the way towards the achievement of that goal. In particular our work focuses on medical diagnoses statements. In summary the main contributions of our ontology-based proposal are the following: First, it includes a canonical ontology whose EHR-related terms focus on semantic aspects.
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8 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Interoperability, Ontology, Semantic
Anthony Guerra, HealthSystemCIO
“As a CIO, having all hospitals within a health system on the same EMR is the ideal scenario. But as Todd Richardson knows, it isn’t always a reality, particularly when physicians are minority owners. In this interview, Richardson, who serves as CIO of the six-hospital Deaconess Health System, gives his honest take of how having physician owners can impact IT decision making, and why organizations need to accommodate the growing need among patients to access their data.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Interoperability, Meaningful Use, Standards
John, EMR and HIPAA
“As I said in my previous EMR and Health IT in 2012 post, I’m going to create some of my own lists for 2012. I decided to tackle the first one on the list: My 2012 EMR and Health IT Wish List. This was kind of fun to think about. I’m also sure that I’ll come up with other ideas once this is posted, so don’t be surprised if I add things to this list in a future post.
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6 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Meaningful Use
Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“Este curso surgió por mi interés en difundir una nueva forma de hacer sistemas de información en salud, tal que se reduzcan o eliminen los problemas que tienen actualmente estos sistemas, muchos de ellos causados por la forma en la que se desarrollan.
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4 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Spain | EHR: EHR, EHR Spain | Tag(s): Interoperability, openEHR, Standards
Dennis Giokas, Infoway Connects
“Interoperability. It’s a term we use a lot when we talk about electronic health records (EHRs), but what does it really mean?
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15 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Canada | Tag(s): health-information-system, Interoperability, Semantic
HealthTechWire
“IHE-Europe, a non-profit association dedicated to interoperability in healthcare, has launched a new organisation, IHE-Services, to offer professional interoperability testing services for health systems and projects.
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15 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Europe | Tag(s): IHE, Interoperability
Luke Gale, CMIO
“Writing on the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) blog, Health IT Buzz, ONC Office of Standards and Interoperability Director Doug Fridsma, MD, stated that vendors should have little choice in deciding whether their products will adhere to national standards.
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13 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Interoperability, Standards
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) is pushing hard for universal adoption of standards that will increase the interoperability of health IT applications, according to Doug Fridsma, director of ONC’s Office of Standards and Interoperability.
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10 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Interoperability, Standards
Cole Petrochko, MedPage Today
“As physicians and other health professionals become more savvy in ways of the digital universe, many of them like what they have found but want more, especially more seamless information exchange between hospital records and physician practice-based electronic health records.
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4 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Communication, Interoperability
John, EMR and HIPAA
“While experiencing this amazing connectivity, I can’t help but think of how poor so much of the connectivity in healthcare is. That’s right. We can find a way to offer internet connectivity at 30,000 feet in an aircraft moving hundreds of miles per hour and yet we can’t get connectivity to rural hospitals and other healthcare locations?
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1 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Connectivity, Health Information Technology, Interoperability
Maldonado JA et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011
Possibly the most important requirement to support co-operative work among health professionals and institutions is the ability of sharing EHRs in a meaningful way, and it is widely acknowledged that standardization of data and concepts is a prerequisite to achieve semantic interoperability in any domain. Different international organizations are working on the definition of EHR architectures but the lack of tools that implement them hinders their broad adoption. In this paper we present ResearchEHR, a software platform whose objective is to facilitate the practical application of EHR standards as a way of reaching the desired semantic interoperability.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Archetypes, Interoperability, Ontology, Semantic, Standards
Jamie Thompson, Healthcare IT News
“The Interoperability Toolkit (ITK), a set of standards and guidelines intended to help the NHS across England to connect health IT systems, is touted as an important resource in bringing about interoperability in the region. A new report co-authored by Paul Cooper, IMS MAXIMS Head of Research, titled We Should Talk: Interoperability and the NHS, delves into this topic.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Interoperability
Maria Chappelle-Nadal, St. Louis American
“Throughout all of the debates and disagreements associated with healthcare reform, one idea is universal throughout the political field – each side wants to improve the quality of medicine and decrease the associated costs. Missouri is no different.
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24 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Semantic, Sustainability, Transparency
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Nothing warms a blogger’s heart more than to get meaningful comments to a post. In Semantic Interop, the C32 and the Consolidated CDA I described the results of the biggest U.S. experience to date to achieve semantic interoperability among EHRs with different data architectures.
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21 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Semantic
Maria Chappelle-Nadal, Joplin Independent
“Throughout all of the debates and disagreements associated with healthcare reform, one idea is universal throughout the political field – each side wants to improve the quality of medicine and decrease the associated costs. Missouri is no different. One way to improve the quality of medicine is through new technology, such as electronic health records (EHR). Already in Missouri, the use of EHR is becoming more widespread through the Missouri Office of Health Information Technology (MO-HITECH) initiative.
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18 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Sharing, Interoperability, portability, Security, Semantic
Luke Gale, CMIO
“A commentary published by the Journal of the American Medical Association proposes ways in which the U.S. can affordably meet the needs and expectations of both the public and healthcare providers as an interconnected system of EHRs is developed at the national level.
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16 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Networks, social-network
Anthony Aspesi, FutureDocs
“A classroom at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine was packed earlier this month with both medical students and students in the Graduate Program in Health Administration and Policy (GPHAP) interested in learning more about the IHI and quality improvement.
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14 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Education, Interoperability, Medical Errors, Quality, Safety
