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Industry bands together to endorse procedures, practices, to develop HIT network

EHR Connection, January 25, 2005

Thirteen organizations endorsed standard procedures and practices for the development of a national health information network and proposed a common framework in a combined response to the Department of Health and Human Services' request for information, reports Health Data Management.

The organizations agreed connectivity should be Internet and network built-using open, consensus-driven standards, and common methods for adoption of the standards, Health Data Management reports. The organizations endorsing the common framework are:

• The American Health Information Management Association
• American Medical Informatics Association
• ANSI Healthcare Informatics Standards Board
• The Center for Information Technology Leadership
• Connecting for Health, eHealth Initiative
• Health Level Seven
• Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
• HIMSS EHR Vendor Association
• Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
• Internet2
• Liberty Alliance
• The National Alliance for Health Information Technology.

Go to www.connectingforhealth.org to reaf the full text of the joint RFI response.

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