Health IT & Interoperability

Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture

A standard format for clinical documents — such as a continuity-of-care document — exchanged between health systems.

Clinical Decision Support

Tools that give clinicians timely, patient-specific guidance — alerts, reminders and protocols — at the point of care.

ONC Health IT Certification

Federal certification confirming that an EHR meets ONC's standards for functionality, interoperability and security.

Current Procedural Terminology

The standardized code set, maintained by the AMA, that describes medical procedures and services for billing.

Electronic Clinical Quality Measure

A quality measure computed directly from structured EHR data to assess care processes and outcomes.

Electronic Health Record

A digital, longitudinal record of a person's health information designed to be shared across care settings.

Electronic Lab Reporting

The automated, standards-based transmission of laboratory results from a lab into a health record or to public health.

Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

HL7's modern, API-based standard for exchanging health data as modular, web-friendly resources.

Health Level Seven

A family of standards for exchanging clinical and administrative health data between systems.

International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision

The standardized diagnostic coding system used for billing, reporting and health statistics.

Immunization Information System

A confidential, population-based state registry that records immunization doses administered within its jurisdiction.

The ability of different health-IT systems to exchange data and use it without special effort from the user.

Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes

A universal coding system that identifies laboratory tests and clinical observations for consistent data exchange.

Master Patient Index

A database that maintains one unique, accurate identity for each patient across all of an organization's systems.

Enterprise Health's occupational-health AI — the first to earn Drummond PDSI Risk certification.

Promoting Interoperability

The CMS program (formerly Meaningful Use) that rewards the meaningful use of certified EHR technology and data exchange.

Submitting clinical quality data to programs like CMS's MIPS using certified EHR technology to demonstrate value.

SNOMED Clinical Terms

A comprehensive clinical terminology used to encode diagnoses, findings and procedures in the health record.

System of Record

The authoritative single source for a given set of data — for workforce health, one governed record across every site.