An overview of healthcare standards

Author

St. Cyr, Timothy J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Florida Atlantic Univ., Boca Raton, FL, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

4-7 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

There exists a multitude of standards with regards to health information systems (HIS) and the electronic exchange of commercial transactions containing private data that must be used amongst various service providers to adequately perform their duties to patients. The evolution of health information systems has been guided by business interests as well as from government legislation creating a somewhat fragmented system with many marginally compatible components exchanging patient sensitive information electronically. The many standards in use today include: HIPAA, EDI, HL7, DICOM, IEEE 11073, ICD-9, and CPT. This paper is a broad overview of the standards listed above as well as a brief discussion of the immediate history of healthcare standards.

Keywords

IEEE standards; data privacy; electronic data interchange; health care; legislation; medical information systems; CPT standard; DICOM standard; EDI standard; HIPAA standard; HIS; HL7 standard; ICD-9 standard; IEEE 11073 standard; commercial transaction electronic exchange; government legislation; health information systems; healthcare standards; patient sensitive information exchange; private data; DICOM; Information systems; Interoperability; Medical services; Protocols; Standards; DICOM; EDI; HIPAA; HIS; HL7; Health Information Systems; Healthcare Standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon, 2013 Proceedings of IEEE

Conference_Location

Jacksonville, FL

ISSN

1091-0050

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0052-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.2013.6567436

Filename

6567436