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Healthcare IT News ■ March 2008 industry news www.HealthcareITNews.com halamka: ‘a future that looks quite bright’ for standards Standards-setting panel chairman bullish on progress. By DIANA MANOS, Senior Editor waSHInGton – John Halamka, MD, chairman of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, says the panel, which is part of the American Health Information Community, has developed standards with compo- nents that can be recycled in developing future use cases. Standards development is progressing according to schedule and should build momentum, he told attendees at the Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society annual conference in Orlando, Fla., last month. HITSP has reduced 900 possible standards to a few dozen selected standards and will com- plete its third round of use cases before Health and Human Servives Secretary Michale Leavitt leaves office next year, Halamka said. “The parts are finite and highly reusable,” Halamka said. “We hope eventually that we’ll have enough of these components completed that it won’t take nine months to develop Artromick Understands Mobile Computing Artromick understands New! NX10 Mobile Computing WorkStation healthcare, consultation and transfer of care, immunizations and response management, public health case reporting, remote monitoring – John Halamka, MD and patient-provider more use cases. We have a future secure messaging, that looks quite bright.” with an emphasis on privacy, he This year HITSP is working said. on use cases for personalized “Consumer health has become a hot topic,” said Audrey Dickerson, HIMSS manager of standards initiatives. Consumers will want appropriate privacy and security standards to coincide with standards development, she said. Alan Bryden, CEO and secretary general of an international standards organization, who also spoke at HIMSS08, said healthcare policies and the development of health technologies have to be approached with a global perspective. Standards now help create and validate global markets for new technologies, he said. there is more to Halamka said the panel’s mobile computing carts than simply mounting goals next year will include increasing education, improva computer to a battery and wheels. It’s about ing vendor implementation, reliability. It’s about ease-of-use. It’s about working with the Nationwide Health Information Network triproviding an open platform of computing and als and “further aligning” with mobility options that gives your facility choices. the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information That is the foundation upon which Technology. CCHIT has so far certified more than 100 ambulaArtromick develops and delivers an advanced tory EHR products over the past line of mobile computing cart solutions to the year or so, representing half of the companies in the market. ■ acute care market. From the trim-line Artromick “we hope eventually that we’ll have enough of these components completed that it won’t take nine months to develop more use cases.” TX20 WorkStation, to the advanced Artromick TX10 MedServer, to our NEW NX10 compact solution developed to uniquely accommodate laptop computers Artromick offers your IT team a wide selection of next-generation products designed for superior performance. Artromick understands mobile computing, and what it takes to ensure a successful healthcare IT program in your facility. More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: StaNDarDS 0308 ● MANOS Continued from page 3 TX10 IMC TX20 Advancing Healthcare Delivery www.artromick.com e ● Connect: artroMIck 0308 There’s no doubt the government has privacy in mind. Workgroups and panels hum away on issues even as you read this. Last December, a new National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics report called for “a transformation to enhanced protections for all uses of health data by all users, independent of HIPAA covered entity status.” The committee was particularly concerned with the de-identified secondary use of patient data, a practice that takes place every day with no consent from patients. According to a new HIMSS leadership survey, one-quarter of those surveyed reported security breaches, but security was not listed among their top concerns. Most healthcare organizations surveyed currently use multiple security technologies and plan on adding more over the next two years. So far the jury is out on privacy in this new era of IT. It may come down to a question of ethics, addressed long ago by Hippocrates. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: MaNoS 0308 800 848 6462 ● http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8859 http://www.artromick.com http://HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/story.cms?id=8856

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