Standards
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
The Financial
“ISO has published a new technical specification which will increase protection of personal health information processed, stored and transferred by computer systems for subsequent use by clinicians and others in healthcare organizations, according to ISO.
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1 February 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Data Protection, Personal Health Information, Standards
Brian Ahier, Ahier.net
“Led by researchers at University of Oxford (UK) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) at Harvard University, (USA), more than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of enormous and radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science, to environmental studies.
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30 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Data Sharing, Genetics, Research, Standards, stem-cell
Atalag K et al, electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 7(1)
Maintaining health information systems over time requires significant effort and time. This is especially marked in clinical information systems where most, if not all, functional software requirements are dependent on healthcare concepts and processes which are prone to high rate of change. Software engineering literature indicates that maintenance tasks alone may constitute 70-80% of the total development cost. It has been suggested that openEHR based systems will effectively tackle this by separating domain knowledge from software code. The objective of this paper is to assess the maintainability of an openEHR based clinical application with comparison to another application based on the same functional requirements but implemented using traditional development methods.
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26 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): HIS, openEHR, Standards
Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider Acute
“Health and social care organisations have called for a new body to be set up to develop clinical record standards to support the development of electronic health records.
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25 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Standards
Vreeman DJ et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2012
Interoperable health information exchange depends on adoption of terminology standards, but international use of such standards can be challenging because of language differences between local concept names and the standard terminology. To address this important barrier, we describe the evolution of an efficient process for constructing translations of LOINC terms names, the foreign language functions in RELMA, and the current state of translations in LOINC. We also present the development of the Italian translation to illustrate how translation is enabling adoption in international contexts. We built a tool that finds the unique list of LOINC Parts that make up a given set of LOINC terms.
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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Adoption, LOINC, Standards, Terminology
Kobayashi S, Tatsukawa A. Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, 16(1)
The openEHR project has developed specifications for future-proof interoperable Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. This project provides the specifications and implementation on which the ISO/CEN 13606 standards are based. The implementation has been formally described in Eiffel, C# and Java, but not in scripting languages (which are popular because of their higher efficiency and faster development).
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23 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Japan | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Open Source, openEHR, Standards
Mark van Dorresteijn, Zorgvisie
“Ziekenhuizen in Nederland kunnen tussen 100 en 170 miljoen euro besparen door invoering van gestandaardiseerde barcodes bij medische hulpmiddelen. Dit blijkt uit de GS1 business case ‘Patiëntveiligheid en efficiency in de OK’.
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18 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Barcode, Efficiency, Hospitals, Patient Safety, Standards
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
Stroetmann KA
The European eHealth Strategies study analyzed policy development and strategy planning, implementation measures as well as progress achieved with respect to national and regional eHealth solutions in 34 European countries, with emphasis on barriers and enablers beyond technology. The focus was on infrastructure elements and selected solutions emphasized in the European Union eHealth Action Plan of 2004.
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4 January 2012 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Europe | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): e-Health, e-prescribing, Standards, Telemedicine
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
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“HL7 attended the meeting in London where a consensus was developed that represents a draft of the statement that CIMI issued. Upon seeing the final draft HL7 specifically requested that its name be placed on the list of signatories to the document.
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16 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): HL7, modelling, Standards
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
Joseph Goedert, HDM Breaking News
“In a new blog posting, Doug Fridsma, M.D., of the Office of the National Coordinator for HIT gives an update on efforts to develop standards for the exchange of health information.
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9 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Standards
Sam Baker, The Hill
“The Obama administration said Wednesday that it would relax certain healthcare regulations in its push to create jobs without waiting for Congress.
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1 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Standards
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“As cancer researchers better understand the “panomics” of cancer–the “combination of genes, proteins, molecular pathways and unique patient characteristics that together drive the disease,” electronic health records (EHRs) can play a transformational role in cancer research. So concludes the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), which calls for EHR vendors to implement standards to facilitate capturing, storing, and sharing this panomics-related data, with the goal of increasing cancer survival.
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1 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Oncology, Research, Standards
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
Zhou L et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011
Objective
To develop an automated method based on natural language processing (NLP) to facilitate the creation and maintenance of a mapping between RxNorm and a local medication terminology for interoperability and meaningful use purposes.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Drugs, NLP, Standards, Terminology
Rebecca Todd, e-Health Insider
“New research on patient records access recommends a set of national standards for implementation, training and promotion and a centralised IT support service.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, RA News, Record Access, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): Access, GP, Patient, Standards
