What the heck is Semantic Interoperability?
Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. For most healthcare folks, especially non-IT, this is a new term. If you visit Wikipedia, Semantic Interoperability is ”the ability of computer systems to communicate information and have that information properly interpreted by the receiving system in the same sense as intended by the transmitting system”. In healthcare, that means that successfully transmitting a patient record, like a Continuity of Care Record (CCR) from one healthcare provider to another. So, if you live in NY and you are on vacation in South Florida, and you get...
Read MoreStandard CDA. What standard?
CCD. HITSP C32/C83. IHE PCC. HealthStory. These are all based on the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) ‘standard’. Now the Feds are talking about introducing UEL for MU Stage 2 (or 3). The Universal Exchange Language (UEL) may or may not ever come to pass, but one thing is for sure; until the Government steps in (or steps up as it were) and says “this is the interoperable document standard by which all EMR/EHR will adhere to” and eliminates the variants, the chances for sharing clinical data amongst providers easily and inexpensively are slim. HL7 messaging was...
Read MoreWill EHR vendors ever get it?
Usability is not a concern of EHR vendors. Will it ever be? How many more years are we, as an industry, going to talk about the issues surrounding physician adoption? The fact the government has to subsidize use serves as an enabler for the EHR vendors. Why make EHRs more usable if the government is forcing adoption? As remarked by David Yanga, MD on March 22, 2011… I find the government incentive structure in the EHR world fascinating from an economic perspective. Did the government have to pay me to use Google, Twitter, my laptop or my smart phone? Physicians rapidly adopt...
Read MoreThe future is here, today…
BayScribe is the future of Clinical Documentation. BayScribe makes clinician adoption of EHR less arduous by allowing them to continue to dictate and handwrite notes, because the structured data needed for Meaningful Use and other measures can be directly integrated into the EHR. Does anyone really believe that EHR/EMR vendors care about Usability? Let us know what you think.
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