Syntax, Semantics & Standards: Model for a National Health Information Network
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Track: Late Breaking News, Large-Scale Architectures, Metadata and Semantics
Audience Level: High Level view
Time: Tuesday, November 15 16:00
Keywords: Model, Architecture, Healthcare, Standards, Java
Abstract:
On September 13, 2005, HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt selected 16 commissioners to serve on the American Health Information Community (the Community), a federally-chartered commission charged with advising the Secretary on how to make health information digital and interoperable (www.hhs.gov/news/press/2005pres/20050913.html). Between now and the November conference, four contracts will be announced setting up a governing structure for construction and deployment of this network: standards harmonization, compliance certification, prototype contractors, and privacy/security solutions contractors.
This activity represents an ambitious attempt to reformulate the government role in technology development and deployment, seeking to avoid the pitfalls of over-regulation and to support the healthcare industry as it constructs the network which some estimate will cost in the area of $156 billion in capital costs over 5 years and approximately $48 billion in annual operating costs.
Health Level Seven (HL7) has spent the last 10 years developing a Reference Information Model (RIM) and a model-based methodology for development of interoperability solutions. The RIM is an ANSI/ISO standard and defines the semantics for a growing number of interoperability solutions based on both XMLschemas and Java APIs.
This presentation will describe the National Health Information Network activity and role of syntax and semantics in building an interoperable framework for healthcare information on a national level.
