I wonder if the model health record HHS plans to demo will be VistA. If not, it should be. If there were ever a case for having a freely available (beer and speech) reference implementation of a standard, this would be it.
Ron --- david derauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > tiki3 > Second Proposed Version of EMR Standard Moves > Forward > > December 3, 2003 > > Standards group Health Level Seven has �largely > completed� its second version of a standard for > electronic health records, and the new version will > likely be up for a vote in March, Health-IT World > reports. Last summer, HHS asked HL7 and the > Institute of Medicine to develop an EHR standard to > promote adoption of electronic records (Reid, > Health-IT World, 9/15). > > HL7�s first version of the EHR standards was > rejected in September, after its members voted > against it. Several health care IT organizations > held meetings in August before the vote to collect > feedback on the proposed standards. According to a > report from the meetings, participants disagreed > with the basic features included in the health > records, as well as smaller issues, such as the > meaning of certain medical and technical terms. > Others thought the proposal was too large in scale > (iHealthBeat, 9/15). > > Since then, discussions with the health IT community > have been productive, according to Linda Fischetti, > co-chair of HL7�s Electronic Health Record Special > Interest Group. Small groups are now reviewing the > proposed standard, which was presented to physicians > at the American Medical Informatics Association > meeting in November. The EHR Collaborative, which > originally contributed feedback about the standard, > will again gather comments about the proposal before > the next vote. > > HL7�s EHR group has clarified which functions should > be included now in the standard and which ones > should wait, as well as how the standards will work > in different countries. Many of the changes to the > first version involve simply restructuring it for > clarity, not changing the core standard, Fischetti > said. The amount of interest in the proposal makes > it likely that the second version of the standard > will be approved, according to Fischetti (Reid, > Health-IT World, 12/2). > > HHS plans to begin some demonstrations with a model > health record next year (iHealthBeat, 9/15). > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 image/gif name=spacer.gif > BEGIN:VCARD > VERSION:2.1 > N:Derauf;David;D > FN:David D Derauf > ORG:Kokua Kalihi Valley > TITLE:Executive Director > TEL;WORK;VOICE:808 848 0976 > ADR;WORK:;;2239 North School > Street;Honolulu;Hawaii;96819 > LABEL;WORK;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:2239 North > School Street=0D=0AHonolulu, Hawaii 96819 > URL;WORK:http://kkv.net > EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > REV:20031204T182334Z > END:VCARD >
