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.

 

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