Explore+the+S&I+Initiatives!

..................

The Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework supports national health outcomes and healthcare priorities, such as Meaningful Use, to ensure better patient care, population health, and cost reduction through delivery improvements. The S&I Framework aims to create health standards through Initiatives, each consisting of participants and committed members focused on a single challenge and a set of value-creating goals. Currently, there are 7 Initiatives and 2 functions in the S&I Framework**.** || The immediate value provided from this initiative is a Meaningful Use Stage 1 summary of care (Eligible Provider, Eligible Hospital, and Critical Access Hospital) for a care transition, including a transition of care to consumer. The value delivered is focused on 4 key information exchange constructs: || The Provider Directories (PD) Initiative provides a scalable and standardized solution to efficiently, accurately, and reliably query digital certificates or security information and electronic service information to enable health information exchange. ||= Visit the PD Quickstart Page || || The Query Health (QH) Initiative aims to identify the standards and services for distributed population health queries to certified EHRs and other patient data sources to enable the creation and distribution of queries, which simplifies data aggregation across EHR systems. ||= Visit the QH Quickstart Page || || The Data Segmentation (DS) Initiative enables the implementation and management of varying disclosure policies in an electronic health information exchange environment in an interoperable manner allowing providers to share specified portions of an electronic medical record while retaining others, such as information related to substance abuse treatment, which is given heightened protection under the law. ||= The DS Initiative has recently launched. A DS Quickstart Page will be created pending Initiative maturity. || || The Certificate Interoperability (CI) Initiative aligns with Meaningful Use and aims to enable providers to electronically exchange and protect electronic health information created or maintained by the certified EHR technology through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities. The preliminary focus will be on developing an analysis of the issues related to complying with digital certificate requirements for exchanging data with Federal agencies. ||= Visit the CI Quickstart Page || || The esMD Initiative will offer providers a new mechanism for submitting medical documentation to review contractors, such as the CMS Improper Payments auditors, through leveraging work from existing initiatives. The initiative also aims to develop a list of recommended Standards, potentially including new work by SDOs, to be incorporated in a reference Implementation for esMD ||= The esMD Initiative has recently launched. A esMD Quickstart Page will be created pending Initiative maturity. || In addition to initiatives, the S&I Framework also contains Functions, which are efforts that collaborate and impact multiple initiatives. Current S&I Framework Functions include Standards Development Support and Model-Driven Health Tools:
 * Page Navigation:**
 * **Explore the S&I Framework Initiatives**
 * **Explore the S&I Framework Functions**
 * **Get Involved Now! **
 * ~ **S&I Framework Initiatives ......... ** ||
 * ~ **W**hat are the Initiatives? ||~ What value do they Provide? ||~ How can I learn more as an Implementer? ||
 * = **Transitions of Care**
 * Discharge Summary
 * Discharge Instructions
 * Consultation Request
 * Consultation Summary ||= Visit the ToC Quickstart Page ||
 * = Laboratory Results Interface [[image:siframework/LRI_pic.jpg width="48" height="64" align="center" link="siframework/Lab Results Interface (LRI) Initiative"]] || The Laboratory Results Interface (LRI) Initiative enables the incorporation of lab results into EHRs as structured data. The initiative also supports objectives for decision support, quality reporting, transitions in case, and electronic copies of clinical summaries and Discharge Instructions. ||= Visit the LRI Quickstart Page ||
 * = **Provider Directories**
 * = **Query Health**
 * = **Data Segmentation**
 * = **Certificate Interoperability**
 * = **esMD**
 * ~ S&I Framework Functions ....... ||
 * ~ What are the Functions? ||~ What value do they Provide? ||~ How can I learn more? ||
 * = **Standards Development Support** || In order to meet the needs of the S&I Framework Use Cases and increased use of HIT, there will be a need to modify or extend the existing standards or develop new standards. The S&I Framework will work with standards development organizations and with research organizations to extend existing standards, or develop new ones as necessary, through the Standards Development Support function. The Standards Development Support approach engages standards organizations throughout, integrates with the existing S&I Framework phases, and follows an open and iterative plan for defining the required standard modifications. ||= Visit the Standards Development Support Team page ||
 * = **Model-Driven Health Tools** || The MDHT project is an open source platform that promotes healthcare information exchange and interoperability. MDHT enables shared artifacts between related healthcare standards and Standards Development Organizations (SDO) by delivering a common modeling framework and tools to support consistent standards implementation. ||= Visit the MDHT page ||

...... url}?f=print|Print this page

media type="custom" key="11138922"