Archive for the ‘CCR’ Category

The IHE Connectathon event for 2012 was held in Chicago last week. Connectathon allows vendors from healthcare IT to test their ability to support IHE profiles, which are critical to standardizing communications across HIEs, ACOs, and across regions. Here are a few observations from my first-time participation at Connectathon: Industry Buy-in It was apparent from [...]

CCR … I’m sure there are days for those who work in Health IT and with the various health standards  when it would be a nice, mental break if those three letters represented what many recognize it as – Creedence Clearwater Revival. We could all take it easy like Jeff “The Dude” Lebowski, roll down [...]

An interesting implementation question was recently submitted to the HL7 list serve for structured documents.  The question centered around the correct way to express “none” in a CDA instance.  In a general sense, “none” can have two meanings: A positive assertion. For example, a patient positively asserts no known allergies, no active medications, etc. An [...]

The need for interoperability is readily apparent in the healthcare industry. But what does interoperability mean with regards to richness of data? The CDA document is defined with three different levels of interoperability: Level 1: Includes the CDA Header plus a body consisting of an unstructured blob, such as PDF, DOC, or even a scanned [...]

As the product manager of Corepoint Integration Engine, it has been an interesting learning experience from the time the decision was made to pursue the EHR modular certification to the time certification was achieved. And, before beginning the certification trek, time was spent trying to uncover the real story of whether an integration engine even [...]

There has been a great deal of discussion on what is happening – and will happen – with the two continuity of care standards. As a refresher, the two are: ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR):  an XML-based standard for the movement of “documents” between clinical applications. Furthermore, it responds to the need to organize [...]

There is an interesting blog post made by Chilmark Research, a healthcare industry analyst firm, which is very relevant to the current discussion on CCD (HL7 Continuity of Care Document) vs. CCR (Continuity of Care Record). Their post is entitled CCD Standard Gaining Traction, CCR Fading. Other than Google Health, HL7 CCD seems to be [...]

Why the choices in the Healthcare Standards IFR? It seems that achieving Meaningful Use should be more defined, especially when it comes to using CCR or CCD.

By now, you may have had enough of primaries and election results. What if, however, we applied the primary election process to healthcare standards? What would happen? Just as there are factions the political candidates are trying to pull together to win, they probably have not seen as many factions as there are in healthcare [...]

The demand for healthcare interfaces with Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is increasing. This increase is due to the rising adoption of EMR systems, emerging clinical healthcare data standards (HL7, CCR, CDA, CCD, ELINCS), and increasing interoperability requirements, such as CCHIT (Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology). To achieve the most effective and efficient EMR connectivity, [...]