Underlying Standards that Support Population Health Improvement HIMSS Book Series

This book highlights success stories and challenges to implementing health IT standards. The narrative of each chapter demonstrates how standards further interoperable health data exchange, especially in the service of advancing tools to monitor population health. These are critical stories that demonstrate to an international community of health and IT experts how to bring the right stakeholders together and bridge classic divides between software architects and clinical end users, health system decision-makers and standard authors.

Introduction. Open HIE – IHE-based meHealth Infrastructure for Underserved. Department of Health Vital Record in the United States. Early Hearing and Detection Registry. Child EHR Requirements. Renewing Health – Telemedicine in the Veneto Region. Title X and Family Planning. Immunization Registries. Global Care Coordination. Complex Medication Reconciliation and Data Visualization. eHealth Ontario Diagnostic Imaging Common Services.

Laura Bright is a Health Informatics and Standards Specialist based in Toronto. Laura Bright is a past co-chair of the Patient Care Coordination Technical Committee and has also been a member and the secretariat of the IHE Canada Steering committee, and Board Member and Director at Large of IHE Canada. She is a strong advocate of ensuring a broad and international perspective to standards authorship. Ms. Bright has also recently been active in developing standards for privacy and security, clinical documents, and care delivery. Ms. Bright’s 15 year career in healthcare covers a wide variety of disciplines, including experience in planning, developing and implementing innovative health IT solutions in a variety of environments. She can communicate complex ideas at a variety of levels and building consensus among diverse stakeholder groups, with a unique blend of business and technical skill sets resulting from a diverse professional background, a solid educational foundation, and several industry-recognized certifications. Notable projects include the development of treatment planning software for stereotactic radiation therapy, an innovative project to produce software for both imageguided and imageless hip and knee replacement surgery, and development of an eMPI, non-operational data repositories, EHR viewer, and a Patient Portals. During this period Laura also obtained her Project Management Professional credentials, and CPHIMS/CPHIMS-CA certifications. In recent years, she has contributed her expertise and experience as a Senior Architect, Product Manager, and Standards Specialist both in the private and public sectors.

Johanna Goderre is the Senior Health Informatics Advisor to the Office of Population Affairs in the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health. Johanna Goderre is a public health professional with over 10 years’ experience conducting public health studies, from concept development and grant a