Medical Informatics

Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems

2007-07-02T06:01:19Z

The Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Systems encodes medical knowledge in knowledge base form as Medical Logic Modules (MLMs). An MLM is a hybrid between a production rule (i.e. an "if-then" rule) and a procedural formalism. Each MLM is invoked as if it were a single-step "if-then" rule, but then it executes serially as a sequence of instructions, including queries, calculations, logic statements and write statements.

Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel

2007-06-30T12:39:04Z

The mission of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel is to serve as a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors for the purpose of achieving a widely accepted and useful set of standards specifically to enable and support widespread interoperability among healthcare software applications, as they will interact in a local, regional and national health information network for the United States.

Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise

2007-06-30T12:21:45Z

IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care providers to use information more effectively.

CCHIT

2007-06-30T12:09:05Z

CCHIT stands for Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT). CCHIT's mission is to accelerate the adoption of robust, interoperable healthcare information technology throughout the United States by creating an efficient, credible, sustainable mechanism for the certification of healthcare IT products.

Health Level Seven (HL7)

2007-06-30T12:00:08Z

Health Level Seven is one of several American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -accredited Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) operating in the healthcare arena. Most SDOs produce standards (sometimes called specifications or protocols) for a particular healthcare domain such as pharmacy, medical devices, imaging or insurance (claims processing) transactions. Health Level Seven’s domain is clinical and administrative data.