HITSP Approves Electronic Health Record Interoperability Specifications
August 17, 2009 // Published as a news service by IHS
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) approved four electronic health record (EHR) interoperability specifications.
The specifications include:
- HITSP/IS107 - Electronic Health Record (EHR) - Centric Interoperability Specification.
- HITSP/TN904 - Exchange Architecture & Harmonization Framework Technical Note.
- HITSP/TN903 - Data Architecture Technical Note.
- HITSP/SC108-SC116 - Service Collaborations.
In April 2009, HITSP began to leverage its work products, including 13 interoperability specifications and 60 related constructs, to consolidate information exchanges that involve an EHR system.
HITSP identified EHR "capabilities" - business services that use existing HITSP constructs to define and specify interoperable information exchanges.
For example, the Communicate Hospital Prescriptions Capability addresses the interoperability requirements needed to support electronic prescribing for inpatient prescription orders, according to HITSP.
In total, 26 capabilities are defined in HITSP/IS107 - EHR-Centric Interoperability Specification.
In July, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Health IT Policy Committee recommended a definition of meaningful use that names seven different electronic exchanges to be required by 2011.
The exchanges include ePrescribing, lab results, clinical data summaries (problems, medications, allergies, laboratory reports) from provider to provider, biosurveillance, immunization registries, public health and quality measurement, according to HITSP.
Source: American National Standards Institute (ANSI).