tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post3221042754528799633..comments2024-03-27T09:55:23.143-07:00Comments on Dispatch from the Digital Health Frontier: The Standards Committee Work AheadJohn Halamkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550236129132159307noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4384692836709903146.post-39370761375191070482014-10-10T05:00:41.179-07:002014-10-10T05:00:41.179-07:00John,
Do you believe this effort will bring us cl...John,<br /><br />Do you believe this effort will bring us closer to the informatics "holy grail" of semantic interoperability?<br /><br />I have always believed (or naively hoped?) that we could put enough semantic interoperability in place in healthcare such that at a high level, we could standardize things like what is a problem, what is a note (e.g., H&P, progress note, discharge summary, etc.), and what are the unambiguous names of things we commonly use (e.g., drug names, lab test names), etc.. I get that we may never be able to standardize the nuances in a clinician's narrative description of a patient, but is it a pipe dream to believe we cannot standardize some of the more common elements of data across all healthcare institutions?<br /><br />Does the Standards Committee share this view?William Hersh, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08252786698451811645noreply@blogger.com