VIENNA, Va., March 8, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Sequoia Project, the nonprofit trusted organization that champions national health IT interoperability, has announced that the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and Together, we today announced the utility of the data. A verification tool for health information exchanged in the United States.
As part of the Data Usability Roots movement, organizations that pledge to adopt the Sequoia Project Data Usability Implementation Guide Version 1 are eligible to subscribe to the first-of-its-kind data usability validation tool to improve data usability and quality. given. testing service. The Sequoia project has supported content testing programs and fed back lessons learned to her HL7.® To improve the C-CDA standard since 2018.
“The growing support for the data usability movement is exciting,” said Sequoia Project CEO Marian Jaeger. “More than 60 health systems, electronic health records (EHR), health IT service providers and others have joined our community and are working to improve data quality for the benefit of all health data users.”
Data Usability Take Root supporters meet monthly to share data usability best practices across all projects and co-develop technical tools and assistance. Focused on driving real-world improvements, these pioneering organizations have developed the Data Usability Scorecard, Data Usability Implementation Guide Version 1 Compliance Readiness Checklist, Data Usability Implementation Guide Version 2, and HL7 Virtual C-CDA Implementation-A. -Thon Track, a new data usability validator.
The Data Usability Validator tests compliance with the Data Usability Implementation Guide Version 1 and is a new module within the best-in-class Interoperability Testing Platform (ITP). Sequoia Project ITP is a set of more than a dozen self-service testing tools covering transport, security, usability, and content that healthcare and healthcare IT organizations use to improve their health information exchange capabilities. ITP is widely available and The Sequoia Project members receive significant subscription discounts.
“AHIMA encourages our members and the entire medical community to join the data usability movement,” said Kevin Klauer, DO, EJD, FACEP, FACOEP, CEO of AHIMA. “By joining this movement and making a new pledge to improve data usability, you will gain access to dedicated tools and subject matter experts like checklists and validators.”
“The Sequoia Project’s VP of Informatics, Compatibility, and Interoperability, Didi Davis, said: “It’s never too late to join this movement. Use our checklist to assess your organization’s data usability readiness, identify areas for improvement, make a commitment, and build a more complete to examine progress towards high-quality, usable health data.”
For questions or more information, please email TakingRoot@sequoiaproject.org.
About Ahima
AHIMA is a global nonprofit association of more than 67,000 members and more than 100,000 certified health information (HI) professionals in the field.AHIMA’s mission to empower people to impact their health® promotes its members and qualified HI professionals to ensure that health information is accurate, complete, and available to patients and health care providers. Our leaders work at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and business and serve in data integrity and information privacy roles around the world. For more information about AHIMA and health informatics professionals, visit ahima.org..
About Sequoia Project
The Sequoia Project is a nonprofit 501c3 public-private partnership established to accelerate the implementation of a secure and interoperable national health information exchange. The Sequoia project focuses on solving real-world interoperability challenges, bringing together public and private stakeholders in forums like the Interoperability Matters cooperative to overcome barriers. The Sequoia Project is also the Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE) for the National Health Information Technology Coordinator’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA) and develops, updates, implements, and maintains the Common Agreement components of TEFCA. Masu. It also operates the Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN) designation and monitoring process. For more information about the Sequoia Project and its efforts, please visit: www.sequoiaproject.org. Follow Sequoia Project on Twitter: @Sequoia Project.
