Goals
According to their website, HITSP's mission is to "serve as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States."
HITSP is generally organized around Use Cases, which are profiles of specific interoperability needs that have been identified by AHIC as being important national priorities. The initial 2006 Use Cases were:
- Consumer Empowerment
- Registration Summary
- Medication History
- Electronic Health Records (EHRs)
- Laboratory Result Reporting
- Biosurveillance
- Visit
- Utilization
- Clinical Data
- Lab and Radiology
The 2007 Use Cases are:
- Consumer Access to Clinical Information
- Access to Clinical Data
- Provider Permissions
- Personal Health Record (PHR) Transfer
- Emergency Responder EHR
- On-site Care
- Emergency Care
- Definitive Care
- Provider Authentication and Authorization
- Medication Management
- Medication Reconciliation
- Ambulatory Prescriptions
- Contraindications
- Quality
- Hospital Measurement and Reporting
- Clinician Measurement and Reporting
- Feedback to Clinicians
Read more about this topic: Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
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