Feds push standards for health care IT - Computerworld
Feds push standards for health care IT - Computerworldhe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services last week announced a pair of initiatives to kick-start development of a standardized electronic medical records system that could be used nationwide. But some top health care companies said it could take years for the envisioned technology to be broadly adopted.
HHS said it has licensed a medical terminology database that was developed by the Northfield, Ill.-based College of American Pathologists and plans to make the technology available without charge throughout the U.S. health care industry.
Liang said Kaiser plans to incorporate the database into a new automated medical records system that it's developing with software from Epic Systems Corp. The database developed by the College of American Pathologists includes uniform terminology and descriptions for more than 340,000 medical concepts; the collection is formally known as the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms.
English and Spanish versions of the database will be distributed through the HHS-developed Unified Medical Language System.
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