Under the direction of management and technology consulting firm BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), The National Alliance for Health Information Technology (Alliance) is working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to engage health care stakeholders in a participatory process to define key health IT terms.
The first step is in the process is to form two works that will develop consensus-based definitions for the standard use of key health information technology (IT) terms. As part of a project, a Records Work Group will be formed to develop consensus on definitions for electronic medical record (EMR), electronic health record (EHR), and personal health record (PHR) while the Networks Work Group will develop consensus on definitions for health information exchange (HIE) and regional health information organization (RHIO).
The Alliance is accepting applications for work group membership on its web site at http://www.definitions.nahit.org from November 5 to November 16, 2007.
For the work groups, the Alliance is seeking volunteers from providers, manufacturers/vendors of healthcare IT products, payers, purchasers, employers, consumer advocacy groups, associations and professional organizations, academic institutions, government and currently operating health information exchanges and regional health information organizations. Candidates should be:
Leaders of national stature, able to simultaneously represent the healthcare field, their respective sector category and their organization.
Experts with experience in the focus area of the work group.
Recognized leaders within their organization, able and willing to engage their organization in this project.
The first work group meetings will be held November 30, and workgroups are expected to meet on a biweekly basis via teleconference until a final report is published at the end of March 2008.
dr. William TF Goossen
director
Results 4 Care b.v.
De Stinse 15
3823 VM Amersfoort
email: Results4Care@cs.com
phone + 31654614458
fax +3133 2570169
Dutch Chamber of Commerce number: 32121206
I agree with that concern. I will be even more concerned if the
definitions are different - particularly the use of EMR. But what's one
more?
Ed Hammond
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cs.com
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In een bericht met de datum 7-11-2007 18:41:26 West-Europa (standaardtijd),
schrijft ed.dodds@gmail.com:
Can anyone explain me why this is NOT a duplication of efforts with ongoing
ISO - CEN - OpenEHR - HL7 - IHE work?
Call For Participation in HIT Definitions Work Groups
Under the direction of management and technology consulting firm
BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), The National Alliance for Health
Information Technology (Alliance) is working with the Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to engage
health care stakeholders in a participatory process to define key health
IT terms.
The first step is in the process is to form two works that will develop
consensus-based definitions for the standard use of key health information
technology (IT) terms. As part of a project, a Records Work Group will be
formed to develop consensus on definitions for electronic medical record
(EMR), electronic health record (EHR), and personal health record (PHR)
while the Networks Work Group will develop consensus on definitions for
health information exchange (HIE) and regional health information
organization (RHIO).
The Alliance is accepting applications for work group membership on its
web site at http://www.definitions.nahit.orgWeb Bug from http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.0/t.gif from November 5 to November 16, 2007.
For the work groups, the Alliance is seeking volunteers from providers,
manufacturers/vendors of healthcare IT products, payers, purchasers,
employers, consumer advocacy groups, associations and professional
organizations, academic institutions, government and currently operating
health information exchanges and regional health information
organizations. Candidates should be:
* Leaders of national stature, able to simultaneously represent the
healthcare field, their respective sector category and their organization.
* Experts with experience in the focus area of the work group.
* Recognized leaders within their organization, able and willing to
engage their organization in this project.
The first work group meetings will be held November 30, and workgroups are
expected to meet on a biweekly basis via teleconference until a final
report is published at the end of March 2008.
It is clear to me.
Each patient, each patient group,
each healthcare provider, each group of healthcare providers,
will have its own good reasons to organise and do yhings the way they want.
There is never a one size-fits-all.
EHR, EMD systems now and in the future can not dictate what people have or want to document in the record.
And all have to be very flexible t0 adapt to new situations.
Next generation EHR systems must be facilitators of these ever shifting requirements, cultures and opinions.
So I encourage every group to discuss and define what they need now,
as long as any other group can do the same, now and tomorrow and define things in an other way.
Many roads will lead to Rome.
And I do not know which one is the best.
All this does not matter when EHR-systems and standards they are based on support this variety of demands and opinion
and stay interoperable at the same time.
Many will not be surprised to learn that I will advocate the deployment of the European EHR standard and the OpenEHR implementable specification.
Systems that use this implementable specification provide healthcare providers with the next generation EHR systems that know how to take care of all these local demands at any point in time.
Now and in the future.
Gerard
– –
Gerard Freriks, MD
Huigsloterdijk 378
2158 LR Buitenkaag
The Netherlands
It is clear to me.
Each patient, each patient group,
each healthcare provider, each group of healthcare providers,
will have its own good reasons to organise and do yhings the way they want.
There is never a one size-fits-all.
EHR, EMD systems now and in the future can not dictate what people have or want to document in the record.
And all have to be very flexible t0 adapt to new situations.
Next generation EHR systems must be facilitators of these ever shifting requirements, cultures and opinions.
So I encourage every group to discuss and define what they need now,
as long as any other group can do the same, now and tomorrow and define things in an other way.
Many roads will lead to Rome.
And I do not know which one is the best.
All this does not matter when EHR-systems and standards they are based on support this variety of demands and opinion
and stay interoperable at the same time.
Many will not be surprised to learn that I will advocate the deployment of the European EHR standard and the OpenEHR implementable specification.
Systems that use this implementable specification provide healthcare providers with the next generation EHR systems that know how to take care of all these local demands at any point in time.
Now and in the future.
Gerard
– –
Gerard Freriks, MD
Huigsloterdijk 378
2158 LR Buitenkaag
The Netherlands
from November 5 to November 16, 2007.
