Abdul Malik Shakir
Hi3 Solutions, USA
Title: Standards Driven Healthcare Information Integration Infrastructure
Biography
Biography: Abdul Malik Shakir
Abstract
Healthcare information exchange, integration, and analytic capabilities are critical to safe, cost effective, high quality healthcare. The technical infrastructure that serves as an enableler for these capabilities is a complex array of data exchange standards, clinical teminologies, and decision support technologies. This presentation provides an overview of this technical infrastructure and current and emerging technologies. In the area of data exchange standards the presentation will explore the major standards development orgnizations – HL7, X12, IEEE, ASTM, NCPDP, and DICOM; clinical terminologies – ICD, SNOMED, LOINC, RxNORM, and CPT; and technologies – integration engines, terminology servers, standards conformance validators, integrated data repositories, and business intelligence tools. The mission of Hi3 Solutions is to support continuous improvements in healthcare outcomes by providing software solutions and professional services that enable our clients to discover, share, and measure compliance with evidence-based best practices in medicine. The products and services provided by Hi3 Solutions facilitate the use of healthcare information management technology standards designed to enable semantic clinical interoperability.
