The World Health Organization has signed an agreement with HL7 to jointly develop guidelines and promote the adoption of open interoperability standards that WHO considers critical to the development of health. digital evidence-based and equitable.
WHY IT IMPORTANT
As part of its global digital health strategy, “There is a call for WHO to provide global guidance on the adoption of interoperability standards and guidance on how to guide data, WHO clinical and public health systems can be translated into digital health systems,” the organization said in a statement. July 3 posted on its website.
The expected outcome of the partnership with Health Level Seven International, in accordance with the agreement that WHO has posted online, is to provide a Guide to HL7-enabled renewable health applications and reusable technology. FHIR with free multilingual support.
The SMART patient data exchange standards, funded by the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, were incorporated into the 21st Century Cures Act.
WHO said in the accompanying project description that it will lead the normative standard on health content and the SMART guideline development process, coordinate and identify the needs of Member States and ensure accurately represent the WHO-FIC classifications and terms in HL7.
HL7 will create the technical mechanism for FHIR-based standards and translate them into the six official United Nations languages – Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish – and receive an exclusive license from WHO.
“WHO hereby grants HL7 a perpetual and irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use such jointly prepared work or parts thereof, for public health purposes.”
TREND TO BIGGER WOMAN
HL7 has collaborated over the years with other organizations to improve health data interoperability, including with healthcare organizations such as Evernorth and Siemens Healthineers to test the use of CodeX Family Machines. Accelerated FHIR for prior licensure in oncology.
Last year, HL7 also partnered with the American Health Informatics Association in a similar two-year partnership to advance interoperability standards and provide implementation guidance to providers. healthcare services and stakeholders.
“As an organization of members that have created and implemented technologies for electronic health records, our partnership with HL7 is essential to advancing health and care. health with interoperability standards,” said AMIA Chair and Chair, Dr. Gretchen Purcell Jackson, science. medical officer and professor of surgery, pediatrics, and biomedical informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, in that announcement.
At HIMSS23, former National Health IT Coordinator, Dr Donald Rucker, who recently discussed FHIR’s ‘dynamite’ with Healthcare IT NewsKenneth Mandl discussed how with a batch access programming interface, FHIR can help healthcare organizations better manage their data and track their performance.
Mandl says the SMART/HL7 series FHIR “enables patient-level data at the touch of a button across a population of patients”.
ON PROFILE
“Both sides agree that working together can enhance interoperability to improve global health,” WHO and HL7 said in the agreement.
Andrea Fox is the senior editor of Healthcare IT News.
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