Health Data Management Magazine
“The Office of the National Coordinator’s plan to require use of EHR metadata in Stage 2 of the meaningful use program is premature, according to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a federal advisory body.
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Helen R. Pfister, Susan R. Ingargiola, iHealthBeat
“One of the most challenging issues in electronic health information exchange (HIE) relates to tagging and separating certain pieces of health data from others in an electronic health record.
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eHealth Initiative
“A common theme in discussions about the use of health information technology (HIT) and health information exchange (HIE) is the technical challenge of actually sharing data.
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Marla Durben Hirsch, FierceEMR
“The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory body to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, has recommended that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) hold off on including metadata standards to Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use incentive program.
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Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“The Office of the National Coordinator’s plan to require use of EHR metadata in Stage 2 of the meaningful use program is premature, according to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a federal advisory body.
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Paul Cerrato, InformationWeek
“If you’ve lived through the transition from paper to electronic health records, odds are you see EHRs as a mixed blessing. They offer faster access to critical clinical information but also create complexities never dreamt of in the paper world.
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Sabrina Rodak, Becker's Hospital Review
“The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives and the American Hospital Association have issued separate statements urging the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to gather more evidence before implementing the proposed metadata standards for health information exchanges, according to a CHIME news release and AHA News Now report.
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Sara Jackson, FierceHealthIT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is testing out metadata standards that state health information exchanges will use for patient information queries and personal health information data security.
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John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“The ANPRM Metadata Standards to Support Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange has been the focus of my blog article One Metadata Model – Many Deployment Architectures. I will now fill in my answers to the questions that are asked in the ANPRM.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is testing the use of certain metadata standards in pilots with Indiana and Montana through the state health information exchange program.
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John Cushman, Solany
“It seems the buzz this month is around The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, or ONC, and it’s push for data standards. More specifically, metadata and its importance to Health Information Exchange, Electronic Medical Records, and possibly insight into stage 2 meaningful use regulations.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“An electronic health record (EHR) is more than just an electronic representation of a paper chart. It is a legal representation of a patient’s medical condition and treatment at a given point in time, one that could be admissible in court. And that could present a whole new set of challenges for healthcare organizations.
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John Moehrke, Healthcare Security/Privacy
“There is a now an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rule Making out asking about Metadata Standards for Healthcare Information Exchange. This is a good thing to be thinking about as we look at exchanging health information beyond the use of the Direct Project.
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Neil Versel, InformationWeek
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is soliciting public comments on a set of “metadata” standards intended to facilitate exchange of health information. The move signifies the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is getting ready to propose rules for metadata that could be incorporated in Stage 2 of the “Meaningful Use” incentive program for electronic health records.
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Don Fluckinger, Health IT Pulse
“This week’s preview of a soon-to-be-proposed health care metadata rule — in government parlance, an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, or ANPRM — some believe to be a glimpse of the upcoming meaningful use stage 2 regulation. Certainly, the ONC’s call for encryption of any personally identifiable data to be encrypted in transit is a sign that this rule can plug-and-play with HIPAA covered entities.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released an advance on a proposed rule about the use of existing metadata standards to support electronic health information exchange and to get feedback on the experience from various organizations that may have applied them.
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Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology & Government 2.0
“The Metadata Power Team has developed exchange use cases that link meaningful use and the report from PCAST (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology), where they intersect at the importance of engaging the patient. The PCAST report called for a universal exchange language, which is an extensible markup-like (XML) language, and other standards to enable healthcare providers to share health information more reliably and effectively in order to modernize and coordinate patient care.
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Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to publish “very soon” a proposed rule promoting the wider use of existing metadata standards so it can get feedback on the experience from various organizations, said Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the national health IT coordinator.
The use of metadata, or elements that describe data, is considered key to fueling more complex health information exchange.
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