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document.write(' '); document.write('The mission of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is to serve as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States. |
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document.write(' Comprised of a wide range of stakeholders, the Panel will assist in the development of the U.S. Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) by addressing issues such as privacy and security within a shared healthcare information system. |
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//document.write('Executive Summary'); //document.write('With the cost of healthcare in the U.S. growing at an unsustainable rate, the U.S. government has turned attention and significant funding towards meaningful use of health information technology as part of the solution. The term "meaningful use" is much debated, but focuses on improved adoption of electronic health records and information exchange, encompassing a broad set of goals and use cases for improving patient-centric, coordinated care. '); //document.write('Electronic medical records (EMR), electronic health records (EHR), health information systems (HIS), personal health records (PHR) and clinical portals are used today and are important components in a health information environment, but these systems alone do not support proposed meaningful use requirements. Patient information is locked in system silos and a trusted, patient-centric view cannot be achieved without a uniformly defined information exchange infrastructure. '); //document.write('A meaningful use metadata registry is a necessary component of this information exchange infrastructure to understand how meaningful use requirements translate to necessary EHR data collection, promote access to relevant information, and encourage interoperability. '); document.write('Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in February 2009, the U.S. government has turned attention and significant funding towards meaningful '); document.write('use of health information technology as part of the solution. The term "meaningful use" is much debated, but focuses on improved adoption of electronic health records '); document.write('and information exchange, encompassing a broad set of goals and use cases for improving patient-centric, coordinated care.'); document.write(' |
The Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 requires Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs), '); document.write('to the extent practical and appropriate, to collect patient safety work product from providers in a standardized'); document.write(' manner in order to permit valid comparisons of similar cases among similar providers. In order to allow standardized'); document.write(' data collection, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services requested AHRQ to coordinate the development'); document.write(' of Common Formats for patient safety events.
'); document.write('The term Common Formats is used to describe the technical requirements pertaining to collection and reporting of '); document.write('patient safety data, including all supporting material.
'); document.write('Common Formats delineate definitional and reporting specifications that allow healthcare providers to collect and '); document.write('submit standardized information regarding patient safety events. The Common Formats are not an attempt to replace any '); document.write('current mandatory reporting system, collaborative/voluntary reporting system, research-related reporting system, or other '); document.write('reporting/recording system.
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document.write('The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) is a metadata registry of healthcare-related data standards funded and directed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with management support in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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document.write('AHRQ provides and maintains this metadata registry of health information data element definitions, values and information models that enables browsing, comparison, synchronization and harmonization within a uniform query and interface environment.
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document.write( 'The U.S. Health Information Knowledgebase is populated with the data elements and information models of Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and other healthcare organizations, in such a way that public and private organizations can harmonize information formats with existing and emerging healthcare standards.
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document.write('USHIK also contains data element information for government initiatives that support the use and implementation of data standards such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) initiative, and the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).
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document.write('USHIK employs a metadata registry methodology based on international standards in order to promote interoperability and comparability.
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document.write('USHIK is housed and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with CMS and VA as strategic interagency partners ');
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document.write('The Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework is a set of integrated functions, processes, ');
document.write('and tools being guided by the healthcare and technology industry to achieve harmonized interoperability for healthcare information exchange.
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document.write('The Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework is an investment by the country in a set of harmonized interoperability specifications to support national health ');
document.write('outcomes and healthcare priorities, including Meaningful Use, the Nationwide Health Information Network, and the ongoing mission to create better care, better ');
document.write('population health and cost reduction through delivery improvements.
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document.write('What is needed to achieve this future are specific health interoperability initiatives that guide the design and development of a fully integrated and connected health ');
document.write('information system to enhance the efficiency, quality and effectiveness of the delivery of healthcare. The focus of the S&I Framework is on delivering guidance to ');
document.write('the health information technology community that can achieve lasting results in healthcare delivery improvements, through the development of content and ');
document.write('technical specifications, the development of reusable tools and services, and the effort to unite stakeholders on common healthcare challenges.
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document.write('The United States Health Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) is a metadata registry of healthcare-related data standards funded and directed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) with management support in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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document.write('AHRQ provides and maintains this metadata registry of health information data element definitions, values and information models that enables browsing, comparison, synchronization and harmonization within a uniform query and interface environment.
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document.write( 'The U.S. Health Information Knowledgebase is populated with the data elements and information models of Standards Development Organizations (SDOs) and other healthcare organizations, in such a way that public and private organizations can harmonize information formats with existing and emerging healthcare standards.
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document.write('USHIK also contains data element information for government initiatives that support the use and implementation of data standards such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) initiative, and the Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP).
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document.write('USHIK employs a metadata registry methodology based on international standards in order to promote interoperability and comparability.
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document.write('USHIK is housed and funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality with CMS and VA as strategic interagency partners ');
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