Series: Building an HIE Through International Standards

Posted by Bill Klaver • 1 May 2010 •

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Around the healthcare ecosystem, there are hundreds of different types of solutions, each addressing a specific care setting. While there is much discussion around integrating people, processes and data, doing so can be very complex, with few definitive, widely accepted guiding principles or standards to help the process.

Bill Klaver walks through current best practices and offers practical advice for building a health information exchange. In this series, we’ll explore how standards, when part of an agreed-upon integration profile or “cookbook,” can deliver on the promise of a better healthcare ecosystem with reduced costs and better patient care. Additionally, we’ll discuss how emerging interoperability profiles help address the priorities of government agencies and public concerns about providers’ influence.

Each part of the series will be linked from this page as it goes live.

Building an HIE through International Standards: Setting the Stage

Standards vs. IHE – What’s the Difference?

Building an HIE: The Theory

The Technology Behind the Solution: PIX/PDQ to the Rescue

The Yellow Pages of Healthcare: Registries

Storing All That Data: Repositories

Protecting Health Data Within & Beyond the HIE

Connecting with Other HIEs

Putting it All Together

Case Study: A Real World HIE