Standards process advances

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<h1>Standards process advances</h1><div class="Source"><div class="SourceCore"><font size="2">Healthcare IT News</font> </div></div><table class="ExtraInfo" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td class="Byline"><h4>By  <span><a href="http://mailto:Caroline.Broder@medtechpublishing.com" target="_blank">Caroline Broder, Senior Editor</a></span> </h4></td><td class="TimeStamp" style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px"><h5>06/30/06</h5></td></tr></table><div class="Body">(<span class="dateline">WASHINGTON</span>) A federal advisory group on standards for healthcare IT on Friday delivered its first set of recommended standards to the government for use in biosurveillance, laboratory results reporting, patient registration summaries and medication history. <br /><br />The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is working in conjunction with the American Health Information Community, a federal healthcare IT advisory group. <div class="Ad"></div>AHIC tapped HITSP to make recommendations on data standards for several use cases in the areas of electronic health records, biosurveillance and consumer empowerment. Specifically, HITSP on June 14 approved 90 standards for use cases to:<br /><br />• Allow clinicians to electronically access laboratory results;<br /><br />• Allow consumers to allow designated care givers and other healthcare providers to access patient registration summaries and medication histories; and<br /><br />• Send ambulatory care and emergency department visit, utilization and lab data to public health agencies within less than a day. <br /><br />HITSP, which has a federal contract to work with the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology and the American National Standards Institute, does not create standards. Rather, it makes recommendations based on standards that currently exist. <br /><br />After the July 4th holiday, HITSP will begin working on guides about how to use the standards. HITSP is supposed to submit the guidance to HHS by the end of September. <br /><br />“It will be together in a format that implementers can use to get into their products,” said Joyce Sensmeier, a vice president for informatics with the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and staff member of the HITSP. <br /></div>