The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense (DoD), and Veterans Affairs (VA) have released the first set of uniform standards for the electronic exchange of clinical health information. The standards, to be adopted across the U.S. government, are part of the foundation of the National Health Information Infrastructure, according to the departments.
Among other standards, all federal agencies will adopt DICOM standards that enable images and associated diagnostic information to be retrieved and transferred from various manufacturers' devices, as well as medical staff workstations.
The three departments said they are coordinating with numerous other federal agencies to standardize cross-federal clinical health information as part of the administration's Consolidated Health Informatics (CHI) initiative. CHI is the healthcare component of President Bush's eGov initiatives.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersApril 1, 2003
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