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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare IT News
“In “The XML Consensus is breaking down” Grahame Grieve distinguishes three camps, heavy engineering crowd, the internet mob, and the data dictionary crowd. He discusses how XML seems to be failing to bring these crowds together.
I’ve worked with structured documents and natural language processing for a long time, probably twice as long as I’ve been in healthcare. What I find interesting in healthcare is the nature of the information being used. Just for fun, I’m going to look at it from a document oriented perspective, since that’s what I’ve spent most of my life working with.”
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Keith W. Boone, Healthcare IT News, 17 August 2011
18 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Semantic, Terminology, XML
Rob Brull, HL7 Standards
“There is little doubt that the first time you see the HL7 v3 RIM, or Reference Information Model, it will make you wonder how someone thought that this could make things easier. One of the key thoughts in moving from HL7 v2 to HL7 v3 is that the new v3 would be a model-driven methodology.
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31 May 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): CDA, Coding, HL7, Interoperability, Standards, XML
Takemura T et al, Journal of Medical Systems, 2011
The movement of create medical information systems that is now taking place involves both progress in EMR (Electronic Medical Records)—computerization of records at hospitals and clinics, and also in EHR (Electronic Health Records) in which information is shared with individual regions. However, the geographical coming and going of people in modern society is extremely active. Naturally the places these people move to are not necessarily within the same region.
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10 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Japan | EHR: EHR, EHR Japan | Tag(s): emr, Infrastructure, XML
Barry Smith, HL7 Watch
“Interfaceware is a Toronto-based HL7 solutions provider whose customers include the CDC, Cerner, GE Medical Systems, IBM, Johns Hopkins Medical, the Mayo Foundation, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Hospital, Partners Healthcare Systems Inc., Philips, Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, the Veterans Administration, and Welch Allyn.
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1 April 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): HL7, Standards, XML
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, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com
“A recently released presidential council report, while raising important issues, oversimplifies the challenges involved in secure health information exchange, says Joyce Sensmeier, vice president for informatics at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society.
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10 February 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information Exchange, Interoperability, Privacy, Standards, XML
David C. Kibbe, Care And Cost
“In a December 8 report, “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward,” the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) urgently recommend departing from much current HIT practice in America’s hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies, labs, and patient’s homes. PCAST calls on ONC to accelerate making health data easily accessible, interpretable by computers, and searchable on the web.
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14 December 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): CCR, Data, XML
Anthony, EHRTech
‘With two large players, Microsoft and Google, entering the health IT marketplace, it would make sense that the two would drive standards for information exchange between applications and their PHR systems.
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20 August 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Google-Health, HealthVault, HL7, Innovation, Standards, XML
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“I’ve recently been asked to provide a list of the data elements of an EHR which might be used as part of the ARRA mandate to exchange data as part of meaningful use. There are a nearly infinite number of actors, actions and events for data exchange, but in the interest of getting “data liquidity” in healthcare, here are the elements that are most commonly used and represent a great starting point for healthcare information exchange.
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8 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Liquidity, Meaningful Use, Standards, XML
Ryan Ricks, EMRBlog
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 includes provisions to encourage physicians to adopt Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). The act pays $44,000 to physicians that adopt EMRs over five years. On the other hand, the act will penalize non-adopters by decreasing their Medicare reimbursements.
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8 April 2009 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Data Sharing, e-prescribing, HL7, Interoperability, Meaningful Use, Standards, XML
