Main description:

This book highlights success stories and challenges to implementing health IT standards. The narrative of each chapter demonstrates how standards further interoperable health data exchange, especially in the service of advancing tools to monitor population health. These are critical stories that demonstrate to an international community of health and IT experts how to bring the right stakeholders together and bridge classic divides between software architects and clinical end users, health system decision-makers and standard authors.

Contents:

Introduction. Open HIE - IHE-based meHealth Infrastructure for Underserved. Department of Health Vital Record in the United States. Early Hearing and Detection Registry. Child EHR Requirements. Renewing Health - Telemedicine in the Veneto Region. Title X and Family Planning. Immunization Registries. Global Care Coordination. Complex Medication Reconciliation and Data Visualization. eHealth Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Common Services.