1. Inventory of Standards Inventories
Brief Progress Report By
HITSP Inventory of Standards Inventories Committee
February 19, 2006
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Overview
Terms of Reference
Gather together existing standards inventories from HIMSS, CHI, NIST, NAHIT, CSI etc. and suggest the best way to maintain an ongoing educational standards inventory resource to inform our harmonization efforts. This could be a web page with pointers to all other work, a consolidation of the work to date into the NIST Standards Landscape tool or other approach. In the future the work of the Standards Readiness committee on the maturity of standards could then use this resource as the basis for their work.
Discussion Draft Report
The Committee initially met on February 6 and again on February 17. This is a preliminary report on progress to date.
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3. Standards Inventories Within Harmonization Flow
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Issues
Scope of Effort
Inventory of Standards Inventories (multiple standards developers included )
Inventory of Standards (single standards developer list)
Inventories Categorization
Basic (description, type, numbers, source, availability)
Simple taxonomy (Content, structure, messaging and function)
Domains (e.g., clinical, administrative, financial, research, public health . . .)
Sub-domains (e.g., in clinical: EHR, Lab, Pharmacy, Imaging, Nursing . . .)
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5. Initial Listing of Inventories
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Next Steps
Gain feedback from TC users on their needs and use
Obtain guidance from HITSP as to level of effort
Initial and ongoing
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Supplemental Slides
ANSI Clinical and Healthcare Standards
NIST HCSL
Alliance Directory
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Two ANSI Inventories
American National Standards Institute, Healthcare Informatics Standards Board. Inventory of Clinical Information Standards (June 1998). New York: ANSI
An inventory of clinical data standards emphasizing terminology and code set standards, useful for the federal Consolidated Health Informatics program
American National Standards Institute, Healthcare Informatics Standards Board. Inventory of Health Care Data Standards (February 1997). New York: ANSI.
An inventory of administrative simplification standards useful for selecting HIPAA standards for adoption by HHS
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9. NIST Health Care Standards Landscape (HCSL)
Provides web-tool for publishing & discovering healthcare standards’ information.
Operational at NIST, jointly funded by NIST and AHRQ.
Contains sample-set of information on healthcare standards, stakeholder organizations, and profiles (approx. 80 stds, 55 orgs, 4 profiles)
Describes, but DOES NOT contain, standards; provides links to standards, publishers (SDOs) & other resources.
Search content by Boolean Query, Name, Keywords, Classifiers, & Relationships (Associations).
Classifiers include: Healthcare domains (~ 122); Org types ( 18); Doc types (~ 116); Doc status (16). (All Classifiers Extensible)
Approx. 37 Relationship-types (Extensible)
User Password and Content Management Controls.
XML-based for import/export of DB content to other tools.
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Alliance Standards Directory
A comprehensive directory of over 1,900 HIT standards from 434 organizations
Open to the public since June 2004
Standards are organized and can be viewed:
By Standards Publication, with key summary information and reference links.
By Organization, with contact information, key summary text and a listing of relevant sub-organizations and Standards Publications.
By Category- groupings of related standards activities.
Using the Search function.
Online at
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