The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has released six prototype use cases to public comment.
ONCHIT and its advisory committee, the American Health Information Community, use the use cases, or scenarios involving health care practices, to focus on standards-harmonization efforts, ensure that the standards are on target and set priorities.
The newly released use cases are in the following areas:
Public health case reporting.
Consultation and transfer of care.
Personalized health care.
Immunizations and response management.
Remote monitoring of patients.
Remote consultation about care.
The public may comment on the prototypes through Sept. 28. Then the office will expand the prototypes and perhaps modify them in response to the comments.
The office will hold a teleconference Sept. 20 to explain more about the prototypes.
From the battlefield to the home front: Managing medical data
Government Health IT presents Col. Claude Hines Jr., program manager for the Defense Health Information Management System, in this recent InSight eSeminar. Col. Hines discusses the health information technology and tactical challenges faced by the military medical community in Iraq, Afghanistan and other areas of conflict. In doing so, he describes the current information technology solutions for transferring clinical data between battlefield care givers to health care personnel at military treatment facilities worldwide.
