Standards, CDA4CDT, Healthstory, HiTechAnswers, ARRA

1. Standards: The underlying infrastructure to the success of EHRs

2. American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act

3. Dr. Nick van Terheyden Dr. Nick van Terheyden brings a distinctive blend of medical practitioner and business strategist, both national and international, to the realm of healthcare technology. A graduate of the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, University of London, Dr. van Terheyden is a pioneering creator in the evolution of healthcare technology. After several years as a medical practitioner in London and Australia, he joined an international who's who in healthcare, academia and business, in the development of the first electronic medical record in the early 1990's and later, as a business leader in one of the first speech recognition Internet companies. In addition to writing and lecturing on futuristic trends in healthcare technology, his advice and counsel is sought by hospitals, physicians and other allied healthcare professionals -- all of whom are trying to figure out how to integrate and use technology to make the healthcare system work from the perspectives of quality and financial success.

4. History of ARRA/HITECH Legislation

5. Electronic Health Record Universe Critical to the success of EHRs is to reconcile two opposing needs Enterprise need for structured and coded information capture Physician’s practical need for a fast and easy method for creating clinical notes. Slide courtesy of M*Modal

6. The Players

7. The Players

8. What are standards?

9. Standards

10. Meaningful Clinical Documents Meaningful Clinical Documents are a blend between free form text and fully structured documentation that represent the thought process, and capture the clinical facts

11. EHR Repository Disease, DF-00000 Metabolic Disease, D6-00000 Clinical Applications Disorder of carbohydrate metabolism, D6-50000 Disorder of glucose metabolism, D6-50100 HIM Applications Diabetes Mellitus, DB-61000 SNOMED CT Type 1, DB-61010 Neonatal, DB75110 Carpenter Syndrome, DB-02324 Insulin dependant type IA, DB-61020 Meaningful Clinical Documents

12. Organizations promoting health care standards

13. Health Story Project

14. Project Members Promoter Contributor Aprima Software | Digitech Systems Scribe Healthcare Technologies Participant All Type | Dictation Services Group | Healthline, Inc. MD-IT | Broward Sheridan Technical Center

15. Projects

16. Successes

17. Summary

18. Technorati http://technorati.com/people/technorati/nvt1 RSSSpeech Understanding http://speechunderstanding.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default MyBlogLog http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/nvt LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/nickvt Plaxo http://nvt.myplaxo.com FaceBook http://profile.to/drnick Digg http://digg.com/users/nvt1 Delicious http://delicious.com/nvt1 Contact Information Dr. Nick van Terheyden Chief Medical Officer, M*Modal E-Mail: nvt@mmodal.com Phone: (301)355-0877 Twitter: twitter.com/drnic1

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