HL7 participates in new charter to develop informatics standards
Health Level Seven (HL7) has joined the new Standards Development Organization (SDO) Charter Organization (SCO) to increase coordination and collaboration on healthcare informatics standards development.
The SCO aims to facilitate and support the resolution of the healthcare industry's standards challenges for efficient and effective information management, and electronic data exchange by:
• Increasing coordination among SDOs through common strategies (such as models, vocabularies, data elements and syntax) and coordinated organizational communications;
• Improving consistency across standards to reduce implementation challenges;
• Enhancing standards usability and quality in the name of meaningful healthcare outcomes improvement; and
• Ensuring the availability of standards that support workflows and operations through enhanced interoperability now and in the future.
"Only through group discussion and planned project action can we provide the enhanced insight required to reach the ambitious interoperability and standards harmonization goals set before us," said HL7's Chief Technology Officer and SCO Chair-Elect John Quinn. "National efforts to pull together electronic health record information in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas show us that the challenge is great and we must all make an effort to simplify the process."
The SCO aims to facilitate and support the resolution of the healthcare industry's standards challenges for efficient and effective information management, and electronic data exchange by:
• Increasing coordination among SDOs through common strategies (such as models, vocabularies, data elements and syntax) and coordinated organizational communications;
• Improving consistency across standards to reduce implementation challenges;
• Enhancing standards usability and quality in the name of meaningful healthcare outcomes improvement; and
• Ensuring the availability of standards that support workflows and operations through enhanced interoperability now and in the future.
"Only through group discussion and planned project action can we provide the enhanced insight required to reach the ambitious interoperability and standards harmonization goals set before us," said HL7's Chief Technology Officer and SCO Chair-Elect John Quinn. "National efforts to pull together electronic health record information in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and the Americas show us that the challenge is great and we must all make an effort to simplify the process."