Universal Exchange Language
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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24 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Metadata, Privacy, Universal Exchange Language
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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23 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Metadata, Privacy, Universal Exchange Language
Jeff Rowe, Government Health IT
“A committee charged with analyzing last year’s report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has issued some preliminary steps for policymakers to factor into Meaningful Use discussions.
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20 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Meaningful Use, Universal Exchange Language
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT could include measures for the use and promotion of patient portals and direct access to their data in the next stage of meaningful use. Patient data could also be downloaded to a personal health record.
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19 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Access, CCR, CDA, Health Information Exchange, Patient, Portal, Universal Exchange Language
T.P. Caruso & Associates
“We come to each problem that faces us with a detailed history. We see solutions based on that history. Every effort we make is a modification of the work we have done somewhere else. For healthcare IT, the problem has been recently how to consider the recommendations of the President’s Council of Scientific Advisors (PCAST) Health IT Report. These recommendations were accepted by the President’s closest counsel, giving ONC the charge to decide the next steps for designing a “universal exchange language” (UEL) and a “data element access service” (DEAS).
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17 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Universal Exchange Language
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT plans to take an incremental approach to testing components of a new health information exchange architecture envisioned by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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15 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Universal Exchange Language
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“In the public hearings of the PCAST Work Group on 15-16 February we learned that the PCAST perceives the UEL in a manner that is quite different than I had imagined. Its view is more far-reaching. It embraces documents but does not conclude that they are the only way in which clinical information will be communicated or used. With this new view, I like what I see.
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20 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): HL7, Imaging, SNOMED, Standards, Universal Exchange Language
Tony Schueth, MedHealthWorld
“As if Washington weren’t chock full of advisory groups, a new one has weighed in and its recommendations are sending shock waves through the health information technology (HIT) community.
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19 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Universal Exchange Language, XML
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“Many of those testifying at a hearing about a presidential council’s call for a universal exchange language Tuesday urged a go-slow, deliberative approach to the effort to improve the interoperability of electronic health records while maintaining privacy.
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16 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Interoperability, Universal Exchange Language
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“The PCAST report represents an opportunity to redirect resources in a way that meets the short term goals associated with the HITECH, support more nimble development of standards for clinical data that are less arcane, and set a long-term direction that enables more innovative use of IT in healthcare.
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14 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Archetypes, Clinical Models, Coding, Documentation, HL7, Interoperability, Universal Exchange Language
Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“Federal authorities need to develop and disseminate best practices for matching patients to all their records, especially when electronic health records are exchanged, the Privacy and Security Tiger Team recommended Wednesday.
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3 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Interoperability, Patient, Privacy, Universal Exchange Language
Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT
“Recently, I interviewed the CIO of a large Midwestern healthcare system about its plans to become an accountable care organization. The healthcare system was installing a well-known electronic health record that will allow its providers to access patient data across inpatient, outpatient and post-acute care settings.
The biggest obstacle the CIO saw to health information exchange was the lack of national standards that would enable the system’s EHR to communicate with the EHRs of private practices and other providers outside of the enterprise.”
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Ken Terry, FierceHealthIT, 30 January 2011
31 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Exchange, Health Information Exchange, Standards, Universal Exchange Language
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve written several posts about the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) report on Health Information Technology.
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26 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): Interoperability, Universal Exchange Language
Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“A universal exchange language, as proposed by a presidential council, is far from a panacea for ensuring electronic health records interoperability and easing the secure exchange of data, a diverse coalition says.
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25 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Security, Universal Exchange Language
Howard Anderson, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“Federal authorities have taken another small step toward a goal of making electronic health records systems interoperable and paving the way toward secure national health information exchange.
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20 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): HL7, Interoperability, Standards, Universal Exchange Language
Howard Anderson, Healthcare Info Security
“A two-day hearing Feb. 15-16 in Washington will be devoted to discussion of a presidential council’s report calling for a universal exchange language for electronic health records. Such a language, according to the council, would ease the secure exchange of information in EHRs by improving interoperability while protecting privacy.
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17 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Interoperability, Privacy, Universal Exchange Language
Jaan Sidorov, Disease Management Care Blog
“If you are like the non-techie Disease Management Care Blog and only distantly aware of electronic health record (EHR) market trends, you are not alone. It too is unable to distinguish between “XML” and “ONC,” and thinks “meaningful use” describes how the DMCB spouse gauges her husband’s assigned chore output.
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15 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Cloud, Costs, mobile, Universal Exchange Language
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“In preparation for the PCAST Workgroup discussion, the Workgroup chairs asked Wes Rishel and I to find examples of the Universal Exchange Language proposed by the report. We asked Sean Nolan from Microsoft for his comments. His guest post is below:
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15 January 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Exchange, De-identification, Privacy, Secondary Data Use, Universal Exchange Language
