EHR Experts

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and healthcare nonprofit organization Kaiser Permanente recently announced a pilot program designed to exchange EHR information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) created by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
This initial pilot is planned to begin in mid-December 2009.
“Utilizing the NHIN’s standards and network will allow [...]

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By Neil Versel
Health Level Seven has published the health IT industry’s first ANSI-approved standard for using EHR information in clinical research. The standard–known as Electronic Health Record Clinical Research Functional Profile and based on the HL7 EHR System Functional Model Release 1–is a roadmap for integrating data to support both patient care and clinical research [...]

Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on November 18th, 2009 | No Comments »