On Jan. 18, the long-awaited Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, was released by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and its ...
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has played and is continuing to play a key role in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
... Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Dr. Micky Tripathi, provided opening remarks. He drew upon his experience as the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange to ...
We know the importance of quick and accurate COVID-19 testing, but do we know when to get tested or even when to seek medical attention?
We know the importance of quick and accurate COVID-19 testing, ...
It may seem daunting to implement the two standards within your local database for public health reporting, especially if you’re a team of one, but you can leverage the work of experts from the Centers ...
Privacy and analytics were two of the predominant themes in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2019 Annual Symposium in Washington, D.C. last year.
Privacy and analytics were two of ...
LOINC’s 25th Anniversary was celebrated on February 16, 2019 with a social media blitz of timeline, photo archive and many well wishes from around the world on Twitter and the LOINC Forum.
LOINC’s ...
I recently attended the June 2018 Laboratory LOINC Conference in Indianapolis to get the latest LOINC updates. I have attended many previous meetings, but this time was special. My colleague Pam Banning ...
The LOINC Document Ontology was developed to identify, characterize, and organize documents exchanged between healthcare systems.
The LOINC® Document Ontology was developed to identify, characterize, ...
Teleradiology is the sending of radiological patient images and reports in multiple modalities from one location to another, for the purpose of sharing studies and results with other radiologists and physicians. ...
Recently, I attended the Health Level 7 (HL7) Working Group Meeting in New Orleans for the first time.
Recently, I attended the Health Level 7 (HL7) Working Group Meeting in New Orleans for the ...
... so your FHIR implementation can support interoperability outside of your organization.
After this presentation, there was a hands-on session where we went into ClinFHIR, an open source tool, to create ...
About a year ago, I wrote a blog about the convergence of two HL7 standards: Clinical Information Modeling Initiative (CIMI) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). I attended the HL7 […] ...
The Lab LOINC committee convened at the Regenstrief Institute in Indianapolis on December 8, 2016 for a day of discussion and decision making. The liveliest topic amongst participants this session […] ...
This fall’s HL7 conference was full of very informative learning sessions about Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). Presentations covered what FHIR is, how it can be implemented, whom it ...
Academic Papers
McKnight J, Wilson ML, Banning P, et al. - 2019 Effective coding is key to the development and use of the WHO Essential Diagnostics List. The Lancet Digital Health. 2019 ...