Hi Tim and all, Just as the US tootles off in a different direction it seems..
Standards Group To Adopt, Maintain EHR Data Format Health Level 7, a health standards development organization, will adopt and maintain an electronic health record data format that was funded and developed by the California HealthCare Foundation, Health IT Strategist reports (Robeznieks, Health IT Strategist, 12/20). The EHR data format, called EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Specification, enables standardized test results reporting between clinician labs and physician office EHR systems. ELINCS also will let providers electronically receive clinical data and will make EHR data searchable, according to a CHCF press release. National health IT vendors and California health care organizations in 2006 were involved in pilot ELINCS implementation, which determined that the standard would be useful and "widely applicable" for the electronic reporting of lab results, according to CHCF. ELINCS also is expected to reduce expensive redundancies in clinics and connect EHR systems with lab vendor information systems. After HL7 adopts ELINCS, it will be responsible for maintaining and further developing ELINCS, as it migrates to a new HL7 standard (CHCF press release, 12/19). Jason DuBois, the American Clinical Laboratory Association vice president for government relations, said the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT asked CHCF to take responsibility for ELINCS. He added that it makes sense for HL7 to assume responsibility for ELINCS because CHCF is not a standard-setting body and lacks the necessary resources to continue to play long-term role in its development, Health IT Strategist reports. ELINCS was developed by a collaborative of California laboratories, payers and providers organized by CHCF (Health IT Strategist, 12/20). One difference with ELINCS is that is has had significant implementation and testing - much like Auspath - where as even the NEHTA introduction says what they have is "not ready for implementation" One oddity I noted was that I could not find a simple Hb - all the exotic HbA1C, carboxy etc where there but not the old Heamoglobin (or Hemoglobin) The QA on the file is also a bit weak - with both Hb spellings being used - seemingly at random. Cheers David ---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 06:38:56 +1100, Tim Churches wrote: > See > > http://www.nehta.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,122/Itemid,139/ > > Worth scrutinising and commenting upon, in writing, to NEHTA (but perhaps > comments can be CCed to this list to promote discussion firts?). But don't only > send comments to this list, send them to NEHTA as well as formal responses, > for goodness sake. > > and > > http://www.nehta.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,151/Itemid,139/ > > For path test and result codes, it seems like SNOMED CT is where it is going > to be at, and the Auspath codes (see ), which are based on LOINC codes, are > deprecated, which makes sense to me since LOINC, although freely available, > doesn't adequately cover all of health and health care, and ultimately it doesn't > make sense to have to build decision support and other information systems > which have to deal with one terminology and corresponding set of codes for > pathology, another for procedures, another for more general diagnoses, yet > another for disabilities and so on. > > Usual grumbles about the use of Microsoft Excel files as the format used to > distribute the draft code sets, when three more clicks by the > relevant NEHTA functionary could have rendered the lists as CSV text files, > acceptable to everyone. > > Tim C > > > _______________________________________________ > Gpcg_talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > __________ NOD32 1934 (20061221) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com
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