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How Standards Organizations Fit Together |
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The following chart helps to show the way in which all the standards and organizations which support them work together through 6 phases of Health IT Standardization. There is a goal for each phase, one or more organizations that work on it, and an expected production of Standards Documents that result from that phase. Health Information Technology Standardization Phases, Products and Entities (courtesy of Anna Orlova, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, with modifications) | | Health IT Standardization Phases | Priorities and Needs | Development and Maintenance
| Selection and Harmonization
| Implementation Demonstration
| Certification | Adoption | | Goal | What to accomplish | What are the standards | What standards to use | Showcase What can be accomplished | Certify standards- based products | Deploy standards- based products | | Health IT Standardization Entities | NeHC (formerly AHIC)
| SDOs (HL7, SNOMED, X12, IHE, etc.) | HITSP HISPC State Alliance for e-Health | NHIN
IHE
FHA | CCHIT
| Industry Proposed: IHE & PHDSC Deployment Workshops | | Standards Documents | Use Cases (Description of the HIE) | Standards / Implementation Guides | Interoperability Specification / Policy Frameworks | Integration Profiles | Certification Criteria for Health IT Product | Implementation Reports |
Software Partners would like to thank Anna Orlova, Director of the Public Health Data Standards Consortium at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, for permission to reproduce the above slide.
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