By Steven Posnack & Carmen Smiley – We recently announced the release of the Project US@ Technical Specification Final Version 1.0 and thereby completed our one year goal to coordinate the creation of a health care specification that could be used across the industry for representing patient addresses (mailing, physical, billing, etc.).
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The American Health Information Management Association and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology released a companion guide to accompany ONC’s Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, in collaboration with standards development organizations and health IT stakeholders, released the Project US@ (‘Project USA’) Technical Specification Final Version 1.0.
By Andy Aroditis – Last month, the ONC released its first Project US@ Technical Specification draft for public comment. The initiative aims to improve patient matching, while supporting interoperability, privacy and safety, by issuing a unified address standard throughout healthcare.
By Steven Posnack & Carmen Smiley – As we continue to learn more about all of the factors that affect our health, where we live has proven to become more insightful over time. Our ability to study and measure health impacts, conduct public health monitoring across communities, deliver medications safely…
By Steven Posnack MS MHS – Standards come about for many reasons. They make things more efficient, cost effective, and safer to name a few. Often you’ll hear witty banter in the standards community (I know…right!?) about whether something is “fit for purpose.” This is also accompanied by the question, “what’s your use case?”