Another from Gary...
> From: "Ham, Gary A" <hamg@BATTELLE.ORG>
> To: 'R. Allen Wyke' <emtc@nc.rr.com>
> Subject: RE: [emergency] Re: GCN Daily Updates Story: Uncle Sam issues dat a-sharing standards for medical info
> Date: 09 Apr 2003 16:34:41 -0400
>
> HL7 is an EDI standard with a long history. I believe that there is also an
> object model based upon the standard. I used it when I worked on the DoD
> Computer Based Patient Record prototyping effort which was the precursor to
> the announced work below. The information structures are pretty strong.
> Since I have not seen it in about three years, I would not be surprised if
> they have built an XML translation of the standards. That said, it is a
> Commercial standard. You are supposed to buy it in order to use it.
>
>
> R/S
>
> Gary Ham
>
> P.s. I still need to change my e-mail at OASIS in order to post. I am
> receiving posts, however.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R. Allen Wyke [mailto:emtc@nc.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 4:24 PM
> To: stephen.jepsen@oracle.com
> Cc: emergency@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [emergency] Re: GCN Daily Updates Story: Uncle Sam issues
> data-sharing standards for medical info
>
>
> Steve, this is a good find!
>
> Group: one of the things we discussed as we were finalizing the initial
> Requirements document was areas around public health. From the looks of this
> article, an electronic infrastructure/set of standards has already been
> identified and/or started to be created. With this in place, our role to
> provide additional incident and emergency related aspects should now be more
> focused, which is a good thing.
>
> Rick: from an infrastructure framework perspective, this is another area we
> should look into. Other than providing an hardware-to-software interface,
> this looks to be missing.
>
> Art: you might want to look at the "messaging" standard referenced (Health
> Level 7).
>
> Any additional thoughts certainly appreciated - Allen
>
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 13:18, stephen.jepsen@oracle.com wrote:
> > You have been sent this message from stephen.jepsen@oracle.com as a
> > courtesy of GCN Daily Updates (http://www.gcn.com).
> >
> > Allen,
> >
> > FYI...
> >
> > The entire article may be viewed at
> > http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/21493-1.html
> >
> > Uncle Sam issues data-sharing standards for medical info
> >
> > 03/25/03
> > By Vanessa Jo Roberts, GCN Staff
> >
> > The government has issued governmentwide standards for coding and
> > sharing medical records.
> >
> > The standards, released last week and mandatory for all federal
> > agencies, are the work of the Defense, Health and Human Services, and
> > Veterans Affairs departments.
> >
> > The three departments developed the data specifications under the
> > rubric of the Consolidated Health Informatics initiative, one of the
> > 25 Quicksilver e-government projects.
> >
> > Currently, federal agencies that provide health care services use many
> > different coding systems, making it difficult to maintain and share
> > up-to-date information, the teams officials said.
> >
> > The coding standards are the first of a series of standards that will
> > make up a National Health Information Infrastructure envisioned by the
> > Office of Management and Budgets e-government team.
> >
> > Benefits from using common health care standards include improved
> > patient safety and a reduction in the cost of health care, Dr. William
> > Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, said
> > in a statement.
> >
> > Ultimately, the goal is to promote use of the standards across the
> > health care industry, not just within the government.
> >
> > Its important for the federal government to lead by example by
> > selecting and adopting these standards, HHS secretary Tommy G.
> > Thompson said. But, he added, to assure appropriate privacy
> > protections for personal health information, it will fall to the
> > private sector to make use of the standards widespread.
> >
> > The Consolidated Health Informatics team cobbled the new standards
> > together from formats now in use.
> >
> > The initiative will require agencies to adopt five standards:
> >
> > For messaging, the Health Level 7 standard to share patient
> > information, such as entries of orders, scheduling of appointments and
> > tests, and coordination of admittance, discharge and transfer records
> > during in-patient care
> >
> > For ordering drugs from pharmacies, standards created by the National
> > Council on Prescription Drug Programs
> >
> > For systems integration, IEEE 1073 series to plug medical devices into
> > information and computer systems so health care providers can monitor
> > information and support telemedicine services
> >
> > For diagnostic data retrieval, the Digital Imaging Communications in
> > Medicine standards, to capture information from manufacturers devices
> > and medical staff systems
> >
> > For laboratory records, the Logical Observation Identifier Name Codes
> > to support the exchange of clinical lab results.
> >
> > For now, there is no deadline for agencies to adopt the standards.
> > Instead, agencies will be expected to convert to them as they upgrade
> > medical and health care systems for inclusion in OMB's planned
> > National Health Information Infrastructure.
> >
> >
> > 2003 PostNewsweek Tech Media, a division of Post Newsweek Media
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> R. Allen Wyke
> Chair, Emergency Management TC
> emtc@nc.rr.com
> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/emergency
>
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