Standards

General Information

AHRQ National Resource Center on Health IT Knowledge Library--Standards

Government Health IT’s List of Standards and Resources
http://www.govhealthit.com/resources/standards.asp

Organizations and Initiatives

American Health Information Community (AHIC)
http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/community/background/

Consolidated Health Informatics Initiative
http://www.hhs.gov/healthit/chiinitiative.html

Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology
http://www.cchit.org/

Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
http://www.ansi.org/standards_activities/standards_boards_panels/hisb/hitsp.aspx?menuid=3

Public Health Data Standards Consortium
http://www.phdsc.org/

Connecting for Health
http://www.connectingforhealth.org

Standards

Widely Adopted Syntaxes Identified by AHRQ Knowledge Library

• Health Level 7 (HL7)
• Digital Images and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)
• National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP)

Widely Adopted Semantics Identified by AHRQ Knowledge Library

• Current Procedural Terminology (CPT)
• International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
• Logical Observation Identifiers, Names, and Codes (LOINC)
• National Drug Codes (NDC)
• Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED-CT)

Connecting for Health Common Framework Medication Standard
http://www.connectingforhealth.org/commonframework/docs/T3_Medication_Stand.pdf

Connecting for Health Common Framework Laboratory Results Standard
http://www.connectingforhealth.org/commonframework/docs/T4_Labs.pdf

Health Care Standards Landscape
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div897/docs/hc_roadmap.html

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