The VA is heavily involved with Reference Terminology efforts, both within the VA (continuous evolution of our Enterprise Reference Terminology and tools for it's upkeep and distribution) as well as engaged in standards setting groups (HL7 as well as numerous specialty domains, e.g., lab, pharmacy, nursing, etc.) Even before everything gets "re-hosted", we will be adding unique IDs (VHA Unique IDs or VUIDs) to as many of the table entries in VistA as we can. (Concepts and their VUIDs that are shared or likely to be shared across all systems, e.g., to assign a unique ID to each allergen ... a strawberry allergy might have an assigned number of 1004325786 ... and every entry of "strawberries" in each system in the VA would get that number associated with it so that allergies for a given patient would have that code and not the variations on the spelling or abbreviations of strawberry. Furthermore, that code would be associated with various other codes for concepts like "food", "allergy", etc. We'll also be moving towards using HL7 V 3 message structures (soon I hope!)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Walton Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] Fwd: Text of Article from Modern Physician Cameron Schlehuber wrote: /snip/ > Having standard health data interchange > standards as ubiquitous as the exchange > standards banks use is critical to the VA's > and the rest of the world's success at > providing a cost saving HER. It's among > the VHA's highest priority if not THE highest. Any chance you could say more about what's going on in this area? Thanks, Bill ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
