Expecting common data standards to fix healthcare’s interoperability problems is too simplistic. It ignores the fact that there are many nuances to health data, and many of those nuances reflect critical information about the person and how the data was captured.
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The US Government Accountability Office recently published a report on Electronic Health Information Exchange. The gist of the report is that electronic health information exchange has increased in numbers overall, but important challenges remain, especially for small and rural providers.
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This is the first post in a series that describes the use of self-describing data objects as a foundation for semantic interoperability.
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Layered Schemas Architecture is being used in ONC’s Leading Edge Acceleration Projects (LEAP) in Health Information Technology (Health IT): Health IT Tools to Make Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data Research – and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Ready.
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Semantic harmonization, the basic concept that multiple parties agree on the meaning of information, is essential for any mission that relies on collaboration.
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Privacy controls for data flow is a technology that applies privacy controls to data as it moves between systems and organizations.
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