The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s EHR Association is made up of nearly 50 companies supplying electronic health records nationwide.
On October 29th, the EHR Association testified before the HIT Standards Committee implementation workgroup. This workgroup advises the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on healthcare IT implementation experience, focusing on strategies to accelerate adoption of standards.
As reported by Healthcare IT news, Mark Segal, vice chairman of the EHR Association and director of government and industry relations for GE Healthcare IT, emphasized to the HIT Standards Committee implementation workgroup the importance of a single standard for exchange of clinical summaries.
“The use of the powerful and flexible CCD standard, which has been accepted by major standards organizations and federal agencies, is central to data liquidity, vendor neutrality and interoperability,” he said.
The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) specification is an XML-based markup standard intended to specify the encoding, structure and semantics of a patient summary clinical document for exchange.
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