Harmonization Work under Way
As a precursor to its work, the Office of Standards and Interoper-
ability launched several initiatives to address lack of standards
harmonization in content exchange, vocabulary, transport, and
privacy and security, including:
x The Transition of Care Initiative, which aims to ad-
dress the transition of care requirements in stage 1 of the
meaningful use program as well as other developing care
models such as accountable care organizations. Its goal is
to ensure that exchanged clinical summaries are under-
standable and actionable.
x The Lab Results Interface Initiative, which seeks to stan-
dardize how to incorporate lab results as structured data
into EHRs (as defined by the meaningful use program)
and reduce interface implementation time by 20 percent.
x The Consolidation Project, which aims to consolidate the
Clinical Documentation Architecture (CDA) implementa-
tion guides from the Health Story Project, Indiana Health
Information Exchange, and Health Level Seven Interna-
tional into a single library of CDA templates and tools.
The initiatives include volunteer members from industries that
have a vested interest in improving the way data is exchanged as
well the maintenance of data integrity for patient care. Partici-
pants include IT vendors, laboratory associations, consultants,
AHIMA, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and
the Department of Veterans Affairs, to name a few.
10
Notes
1. “S&I Framework Functions.” January 6, 2011. http://jira.
siframework.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=
5604661.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Byers, Jeff. “HIMSS: Standards & Interoperability Framework Developing, Needs Input.” CMIO. February 22, 2011.
www.cmio.net.
Allison Viola ( allison.viola@ahima.org) is director of federal relations at
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