Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

Standards Based

• Why?
  • Interoperability
  • Design patterns and detailed object models reviewed by worldwide community of HIT experts.
    • Less work to do on conceptual design
  • Design for reuse (build once, reuse many times)
    • (Somewhat more work in detailed implementation)
  • Minimize user configuration needs.
• How and What?
  • Health Level-7 version 3
    • Reference Information Model
    • Medication/Pharmacy and Patient Care Standards
    • Understand any HL7 v3 message and document payload
    • Accept HL7 v2 messages by mapping to HL7 v3
  • Terminologies
    • LOINC, SNOMED CT, UMLS Terms
    • NDF-RT, RxNorm, NDC, FDA SRS UNII