Description of Healthcare Track
The threat of bio-terrorism has generated a demand throughout the healthcare
industry to share clinical information.
The biological threat has created a heightened sense of urgency for the
adoption of healthcare data standards and the infrastructure needed to manage
and deploy new clinical information standards.
It is significant that 80% of informatics members who represent or
develop healthcare systems identify a lack of standards adoption as a primary
barrier to a national health information infrastructure.
A metadata
registry can be the backbone of a clinical information infrastructure. The registry enables the registration and
correlation of metadata (i.e. information about data) contained in multiple
health standards and a multitude of provider and payer databases throughout the
country, and the world. The metadata registry includes the ability to
effectively manage the meaning of clinical data assets and associated
terminology found in different standards and across the healthcare community.
Many standards recommendations are under consideration by the major federal
healthcare agencies, the metadata registry is today a core component in the
creation of a standards-based, comprehensive, lifelong, patient medical record.
These
sessions will cover emerging health care standards and registries. Accurate
clinical information for population health decisions are
crucial for today’s recipient of healthcare information who must correctly
interpret the originator’s clinical information meaning. The appropriate interpretation
of clinical meaning is essential to assure the consistency and coherence of
information stored in and shared between databases and document management
systems. Clinical information registries
must include accurately characterizing and communicating the contextual factors
that are needed to assure the unambiguous interpretation, over time, of the
data.
During these sessions, you will hear presentation from public and private sectors with a focus on “lessons learned” and shared healthcare experiences. The sessions will cover issues to clarify, standardize, and integrate the information models and terminology of the healthcare domain and the data elements used for information sharing. Attendees will find out about healthcare metadata registries developed in consonance with the ISO/IEC 11179, Specification and Standardization of Data Elements. Successes, and profit from “lessons learned”, in addition to sharing of experiences integrating information models and terminology in the health care domain.