Translating standards into practice: Experience and lessons learned at the Department of Veterans Affairs

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 813-823

  Bouhaddou, Omar ^a   Cromwell, Tim ^a   Davis, Mike ^a   Maulden, Sarah ^a   Hsing, Nelson ^a   Carlson, David ^a   Cockle, Jennifer ^a   Hoang, Catherine ^a   Fischetti, Linda ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information technology; Interoperability; Likelihood of Adoption Scale; Reference implementation; Standards adoption; Standards Life Cycle

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS REQUIREMENT; DATA STANDARDS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; ENTERPRISE REQUIREMENTS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS; IMPLEMENTATION APPROACH; LIKELIHOOD OF ADOPTION SCALE; MODELING TOOL; PDF DOCUMENT; REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION; SECURITY AND PRIVACY; STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT; TESTING TOOLS;

HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTEROPERABILITY; LIFE CYCLE;

STANDARDIZATION;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; SOCIAL SECURITY; STANDARD; VETERAN;

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84865103661     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.01.003     Document Type: Article

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