The following message announces an extremely short public comment
period -- six days -- on proposed specifications for electronically
exchanging patient care related information. These documents are the
result of federal government direction and funding by the American
Health Information Community (AHIC) [a federal advisory board] and the
Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for healthcare information
technology.

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----- Original Message -----
From: Michelle Maas Deane [mailto:mmaasdeane@...]
Sent: Wed 9/13/2006 8:05 AM
To: HITSP@...
Subject: HITSP 06 N 111 - Interoperability Specifications for EHR,
Biosurveillance, and Consumer Empowerment - FORMAL REVIEW

Document Number: HITSP 06 N 111

Date: September 13, 2006

TO: Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel
(HITSP) - FOR REVIEW AND ACTION

FROM: Michelle Deane
HITSP Secretariat
American National Standards Institute

RE: Interoperability Specifications for EHR,
Biosurveillance, and Consumer Empowerment -
FORMAL REVIEW

STATUS: The Technical Committees have completed development of
the three Interoperability Specifications. In its final state, an
Interoperability Specification provides unambiguous instructions for how
to develop information technology solutions that will support sharing of
clinical information within a specific context. Each Interoperability
Specification is actually a suite of documents that, taken as a whole,
provide a detailed map to existing standards and specifications that
will satisfy the requirements imposed by a given use case. It identifies
and constrains standards where necessary, and creates groupings of
specific actions and actors to further describe the relevant contexts.
Where gaps and overlaps are identified, the interoperability
specification provides recommendations and a roadmap for corrections to
be made. Each Interoperability Specification includes IS Transaction
Packages, IS Transactions, and IS Components. The three
Interoperability Specifications have been Inspection Tested and the
Technical Committee members addressed the findings of the testers.

ACTION: Panel members and the public are invited to review and
comment on the three Interoperability Specifications that are available
at the following location on hitsp.org:

http://publicaa.ansi.org/sites/apdl/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFo
lder=%2fsites%2fapdl%2fDocuments%2fStandards%20Activities%2fHealthcare%2
0Informatics%20Technology%20Standards%20Panel%2fInteroperability%20Speci
fication%2fReady%20for%20Public%20Comment&View=%7b21C60355%2dAB17%2d4CD7
%2dA090%2dBABEEC5D7C60%7d

The most effective way to review any Interoperability Specification is
to begin with the following documents:
* EHR (IS_HITSP_01_v1.1_2006_EHR-Lab-Result-Reporting
2009122006.pdf) (HITSP/IS-01)
* Biosurveillance (IS_HITSP_02_v1.1_2006_Biosurveillance
20091206.pdf) (HITSP/IS-02)
* Consumer Empowerment (IS_HITSP_03_v1.1_2006_Consumer
Empowerment.pdf) (HITSP/IS-03)

Comments should be sent to hitspcomments@... by COB September 19,
2006. A template (attached) is being provided for use when submitting
comments. Comments must be received in the required template (attached)
to be considered. The commenter should expect to receive a receipt
notice of the comments within 24 hours. If a receipt if not received,
please contact Michelle Deane.

Please submit comments (in attached template) to hitspcomments@...
<mailto:hitspcomments@...> as soon as possible, but no later then
COB September 19, 2006.


NEXT STEPS:

Comments received will be posted in the Formal Comments Received folder
in the document library.

The HITSP Panel member organizations will be requested to approve the
Interoperability Specifications at the September 20, 2006 Panel meeting.


These documents as well as the associated documents were not sent as an
attachment due to their size. Please contact Michelle Deane at
mmaasdeane@... if you have any trouble accessing the documents.



Michelle Maas Deane
HITSP Secretariat
American National Standards Institute
25 West 43rd Street - Fourth Floor
New York, NY 10036

T: 1.212.642.4884
F: 1.212.398.0023
E: mmaasdeane@...