More than 30 organizations have pledged financial support for an initiative to harmonize standards for the use of electronic health records in clinical research.
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel has taken on the task. Under a federal contract awarded in 2005, the American National Standards Institute, Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society, Advanced Technology Institute and Booz Allen Hamilton formed HITSP to harmonize standards to advance interoperability.
HITSP in mid-May called for subject expert volunteers for two committees to start the clinical research initiative, and they started work during a three-day forum last June 9-11.
The goal is to produce a streamlined electronic standards implementation guide that outlines pertinent standards, how they support clinical research and how they fit with existing HITSP interoperability specifications already available in the clinical care environment.
HITSP continues to seek expertise in such areas as standardized vocabularies for clinical research; research-specific data elements; research-specific datasets; and the processes of clinical research sponsoring organizations.
For more information, send an e-mail to Allyn Clemons, standards harmonization coordinator, at aclemons@himss.org.
Six federal agencies also are supporting the initiative. For more information, click here.
--Joseph Goedert
JUN 17, 2009 3:56pm ET
HITSP Moves on Research Standards
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