In addition, a new work group is close to recommending a standard for allergy data, Halley told the Healthcare IT Standards Panel.
Halley reviewed the work of the CHI effort, a Bush administration e-government project to enable federal agencies to exchange medical data. The CHI work is continuing with staff support from ONCHIT.
CHI adopted 23 data standards and four messaging standards for use in future federal and military health IT systems, but in seven areas no standard was adopted: disability, medical history and physical, medical devices and supplies, multimedia data, population health, physiology, and proteins.
Halley said work is continuing on disability, medical devices and supplies and multimedia. “We’re very, very close to coming out with a new standard for allergies,” she added.
The standards adopted through CHI will be presented on a Web portal now being constructed, Halley said. She said she hoped the portal will be in use within a month.
By borrowing from the CHI work, the standards panel might save some time in a tight schedule for completing the complex task of identifying which standards should be used in the national network, panel members suggested.
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Autor: Nancy Ferris
Quelle: Government Health IT, 15.03.2006
