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Setting the Standard: EHR Quality Reporting Rises in Prominence Due to Meaningful Use
In this article, published in the January 2014 Journal of AHIMA, thought leaders from Lantana Consulting Group and HHS’s Centers for Medicaid & Medicare (CMS) discuss the industry mandate to measure the quality of care provided to patients. The ability to measure healthcare relies upon standard data and data formats for electronic health records (EHRs) under the…
Read MoreMaking use of electronic data: The National Healthcare Safety Network eSurveillance Initiative
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), is developing a standard framework to support the electronic submission of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use and resistance (AUR). The article outlines three key challenges to collecting this data electronically and shares background and success stories on…
Read MoreHealthcare Informatics: “Guidelines Will Standardize Dictated Documents” by Brian Albright
“Dictated medical notes and other types of transcribed patient records are usually available in electronic form, but have traditionally not been very useful in the context of an electronic medical record (EMR) system. Transcribed records follow a variety of formats depending on the clinical setting and type of transcription service used, making them difficult to…
Read MoreHL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2, JAMIA Paper
Release 2 (CDA R2) became an ANSI-approved HL7 Standard in May 2005 and is the subject of this article, where the focus is primarily on how the standard has evolved since CDA R1, particularly in the area of semantic representation of clinical events.
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