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Organizations that Implement Standards-Based Specifications | Tutorials
Standards implementation is a process of demonstrating the use of standards in an information technology application. To help implement standards, standard development organizations create Implementation Guides - technical documents that describe how to implement standards.
IHE - Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
IHE is a multi-year initiative under the leadership of Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). IHE began in November 1998 as a collaborative effort to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share critical information. IHE includes medical and public health experts, administrators, standards organizations, IT professionals, and vendors. IHE Technical Committees develop integration profiles to assure that health information seamlessly is passing from application to application, system to system, and setting to setting — across the entire healthcare enterprise.
IHE Connectathon is the healthcare IT industry's largest interoperability testing event. The full range of profiles defined in the IHE Technical Frameworks are tested in a carefully organized and supervised environment. More than 70 vendors have registered to test more than 130 healthcare IT systems in 2009.
PHDSC has been invited by IHE to start a Public Health Domain at IHE. PHDSC and IHE are collaborating to enable interoperability across clinical and public health enterprises. This includes the development of interoperability standards for immunization information systems, cancer registries, chronic disease registries (diabetes) and maternal and child health (newborn screening). This also includes work on information infrastructure issues such as service-oriented architecture (SOA) for public health. PHDSC member organizations, American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA), North-American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR), Software Partners and OZ Systems, have been working on various public health projects at IHE.
PHDSC - Health Care Services Reporting Guide Sub-Committee
PHDSC has developed the ANSI X12N 837 Health Care Service Data Reporting Guide to provide a standardized format and data content for reporting health care service data that are compatible with the 837 Health Claim transaction set standards identified by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). This guide provides assistance in developing and executing the electronic transfer of health care systems data for reporting purposes to local, State, and Federal agencies that utilize the data for monitoring utilization rates, assessing patterns of health care quality and access, and other purposes required by legislative and regulatory mandates.
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