At HIMSS15, I had to the pleasure of teaming with Mandi Bishop and four health IT leaders to organize our annual #HITsm live event. The…
Archive | Healthcare Standards
Healthcare Standards include HL7, X12, DICOM, plus more.
What the JASON Report says about CDA
If CDA is not an adequate standard for leading the industry to utilize atomic data, then what would be better?
IHE IT Infrastructure Work Items Selected
The IHE IT Infrastructure Committee has selected its work items for the next annual cycle. This year, a significant increase in total work made it…
20 Questions for Health IT #6: Optionality vs Extensibility in Standards
Question from Greg Meyer, distinguished engineer at Cerner: Optionality vs Extensibility: What effect is the large selection of standards and technology in the health IT…
The CCD/CCR Fork in the Road. Did Health IT Take the Wrong Path?
Did healthcare IT chose the wrong path by not choosing CCR? It certainly seems so at this point. But one must also step back and…
HL7 ADT Q&A with Dave Shaver
Is there a national standard to what the baseline structure for what an ADT (A28, A31) message should include? Are there national specifications/schematics that say…
Less Than One Week Remains to Provide Input for IHE ITI Supplements
Two new IHE Technical Framework supplements and a handbook are still out for public comment. The ITI Technical Committee encourages and welcomes your input to…
Philosophical and Structural Differences Between HL7 and X12
Even though the interfaces that handle both types of documents live side by side, keeping some of the high-level differences in mind when designing them…
Collaboration and Federation: IHE Creating Direct Project Provider Directory
We’re seeing a move from talking about the sustainability and interfacing challenges of HIE organizations to a new discussion focused on a one-to-one exchange of…
The Standardization of Data and the Personal Health Record
Health data standards are part of almost every discipline and industry. Within healthcare, there are standards from laboratory and radiology procedures to network protocols. With…
