MEDICAL RECORDS :
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY:
Uniform IT Definitions Proposed to Promote Understanding
Uniform IT Definitions Proposed to Promote Understanding
The definitions distinguish electronic health records, which include
information from multiple facilities, from electronic medical records,
which would be from a single entity.
By Dave Hansen, AMNews staff. April 7, 2008.
American Medical News
<http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/04/07/gvsc0407.htm>
Washington -- The jumble of terms in health information technology soon
could be simplified. The National Alliance for Health Information
Technology announced March 24 that it finished proposed definitions for
five key HIT terms and will seek public comment on them until April 9.
The alliance, a nonprofit organization serving as a forum for companies
and officials to debate emerging HIT issues, started its work in November
2007 for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
Technology. The terms are electronic medical record, electronic health
record, personal health record, health information exchange and regional
health information organization.
The ONC chose the terms because they are the most often confused.
Lawmakers have proposed bills that use the terms in different ways, said
Karen M. Bell, MD, director of the ONC's Office of HIT Adoption.
After the definitions are finalized, the ONC will officially adopt them
and use them in its contract language, said alliance Vice President and
Chief Marketing Officer Jane Horowitz, who leads the project.
Organizations and companies should follow and operationalize the
definitions throughout health care, she said.
One of the most significant developments would be distinguishing EMRs from
EHRs. The two are frequently used interchangeably. The alliance proposed
identifying an EMR as medical information on an individual patient from a
single organization, including affiliated settings. EHRs would be data on
a patient aggregated from multiple organizations.
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