Through a partnership with the American Association for Health Information Management, Project Sequoia will provide technical assistance, trial support, and facilitation to help facilitate data exchange between organizations. function becomes easier to calculate and implement.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
Azuba, Civitas Networks for Health, Epic, Foothold Technologies, HCA, Health Gorilla, HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association, Kno2, MedAllies, New York eHealth Collaborative and Optum are among the first participants of the Root Capability initiative new data usage, announced Tuesday.
Each person will choose their own path and pace of implementation for the Sequoia Project Interoperability Working Group principle with data usability issues, choosing the topics that make the most sense to the organization. their position.
“Implementers choose to work on the areas that matter most to them,” explained Didi Davis, Sequoia Project’s vice president of informatics, compliance, and interoperability.
“For some, this could mean working on data origin and traceability of change, data integrity and reliability, or tagging,” she explains. data and search capabilities. “For others, that might mean using code efficiently, reducing the impact of duplicates, using effective narrative, or any combination they choose.”
The guidance targets the improvements needed for semantic interoperability of shared clinical data between healthcare providers, encouraging organizations to stop thinking of usability as a separate medical IT projects and adopt a data usability approach across all projects to make real-world incremental improvements over time, according to the organizations.
Amy Mosser, interim chief executive officer of AHIMA, added that the public and private sectors together have made significant strides in health data interoperability.
“Data usability is part of the DNA of the health information profession,” says Mosser. “Implementing data usability guidance on a national scale will promote consistency across data-sharing technologies, at a time when more data is available and shared than ever before.” .”
Mariann Yeager, CEO of Project Sequoia, said: “The guidelines for the project prioritized elements that could reasonably be implemented in an 18-month timeframe. Healthcare IT News.
“We hope we’ll find out as we continue to see what elements can be ‘low hanging fruit’ and which ones can be more complicated to implement.”
AHIMA and Project Sequoia will host a series of virtual events culminating in the Data Usability Summit on September 6 in Washington, DC.
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
In December, Project Sequoia published its final implementation guide on data usability. It describes guidance that provides recommendations on real-world data usability for health information networks and communities. It includes identified priority use cases that can be easily applied across providers, implementers, networks, governance frameworks, and health information exchange pilot programs.
Since that time, seven Qualified Health Information Networks have been approved to create a nationally interoperable network under the 21st Century Cures Act.
At a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recognition event in May, providing an update on TEFCA’s interoperability milestones, Secretary Xavier Becerra recognized six QHINs that have moving into pre-production testing, including several QHINs that have joined the new AHIMA/Sequoia Project data usability initiative – Epic, Health Gorilla and Kno2.
ON PROFILE
“For three years, more than 260 health organizations have worked together through Project Sequoia to develop practical guidance to make health data more useful to healthcare providers. healthcare, healthcare IT provider, public health, medical and patient information exchange,” Yeager said in the statement announcing Origin Data Usability. “It’s time to put this guidance into action for the common good.”
This story has been updated to include additional comments from Mariann Yeager, CEO of Project Sequoia.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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