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Define
the business, technical, cultrual, and security issues of improving
interconnectivity and information sharing among the principals,
such as healhcare providers, physicians, patients, payers, databases,
and hospitals.
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Discuss
how current information technologies address above issues.
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Determine
the drivers regarding the representation, preservation, and reuse
of knowledge in healthcare interactions.
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Define
ways to reduce ambiguity in terminology and to improve or extend
standardization in this area; such as, for information modeling
and ontology development.
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Determine
if new functionalities and requirements, such as those imposed by
HIPAA, demand additional standardization efforts beyond the current
healthcare standards efforts, such as HL7, X12, NCPDP, and others.
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Discuss
the need for conformance test tools to help ensure implementation
conformance to appropriate standards.
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Provide
recommendations for effective involvement of small medical practices
(SMPs) in the information-based healthcare infrastructure.
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