Health Care Information Systems: A Practical Approach for Health Care Management, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 10

Health Care Information System Standards

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• To be able to give examples of the four major methods by which standards are developed—ad hoc, de facto, government mandate, and consensus.
• To be able to identify the major types of health care information standards and the organizations that develop or approve them:
  • Classification standards
  • Vocabulary and terminology standards
  • Standards for electronic data interchange
  • Health record content and functional standards
• To be able to identify and discuss the role of organizations that currently have a significant impact on the adoption of health care information standards in the United States.
• To be able to identify and discuss the role of federal initiatives and legislation ...