Technology Standards in Healthcare
Software Partners’ products and services are based upon common standards – enabling patients and other stakeholders to “plug in” to a standard interface.
Listed below are Standards Development Organizations (SDOs). Below each SDO are the healthcare interoperability standards and white papers that we have co-authored and contributed to.
Health Level Seven (HL7)
- Service Oriented Architecture Workgroup (SOA)
- X-Paradigm Interoperability Implementation Guide
- X-Paradigm Interoperability on Wikispaces
Health Level Seven Standards Document Reference:
- A Practical Guide for SOA in Healthcare, Vol II Immunization Management Case Study (SOA)
- Decision Support Service (DSS)
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
IHE IT Infrastructure Technical Framework (ITI)
- Integration Profiles Vol. 1 (ITI TF-1)
- Transactions Vol. 2 (ITI TF-2a)
IHE Patient Care Coordination (PCC)
- Integration Profiles Vol. 1 (PCC TF-1)
- Transactions and Content Profiles Vol.2 (PCC TF-2)
IHE Standards Document Reference:
- Service Oriented Architecture Whitepaper (SOA)
- Patient Identifier Cross-Reference (PIX)
- Patient Demographics Query (PDQ)
- Pediatric Demographics – Final Text (ITI TF-1)
- PIX and PDQ Version 3 Supplement (PIXPDWv3)
- Pediatric Demographics Option to PIX and PDQ (PDO)
- A Service-Oriented Approach to Healthcare Interoperability Architecture (SOA)
- Immunization Content Profile (pdf) (IC)
- Request for Clinical Guidance (pdf) (RCG)
Object Management Group (OMG)
OMG Standards Document Reference:
- Identity Cross-Reference Service (IXS)
- IXS Lessons Learned (IXS)
- Retrieve, Locate and Update Service (RLUS)
- Clinical Decision Support Service (CDSS)
Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP)
Practical Guide for SOA in Healthcare, Volume II: Immunization Management Case Study
Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHSDC)
White Paper: Building a Roadmap for Health Information Systems Interoperability for Public Health
American Immunization Registry Association (AIRA)
and Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
AIRA and CDC Standards Document Reference:
- Implementation Guide for Immunization Registries using HL7 Version 2.3.1
- HL7 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Immunization Messaging, Release 1.4 (IG)
Health Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
HITSP Standards Document Reference:
- Immunizations and Response Management (IS10)
- HISTP Query for Existing Data Transaction Pkg (TP21)
- HITSP Patient ID X-Referencing Transaction Pkg (TP22)
- HITSP Patient Demographics Query Transaction (T23)
- Immunization Query and Response (C70)
- Immunization Message Component (C72)
- Immunization Document Component (C78)