Data standards are the principal informatics component necessary for information flow through the national health information infrastructure. With common standards, clinical and patient safety systems ...

A Health and Human Services agency is encouraging healthcare providers, public health agencies and other organizations to consider adopting a new data standard for documenting patient addresses in ...

The Match IT Act of 2024, now before Congress, would create a federal definition for 'patient match rate' that providers would address as they would a clinical quality measurement A new bill before ...

DirectTrust has launched an initiative to develop a new standard to support a voluntary nationwide patient credential and matching ecosystem. DirectTrust is a non-profit healthcare industry alliance ...

Filling a void, the National Quality Forum released Tuesday the first national standards for healthcare decision aids, used to improve shared decision-making between providers and patients. Previously ...

Patients without standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (SMuRFs) who present with acute MI are at an increased risk of dying when compared with those who present with at least one risk factor ...

Common clinical data standards are critical to establishing a national health information infrastructure that can support patient safety. While progress is being made in selecting core groups of these ...