Challenges Using Patient Generated Data for Patient Care

When I do presentations on the use of standards, I invariably have a slide which defines interoperability as “the ability of a system or a product to work with other systems or products without special effort on the part of the customer.” My second slide then defines syntactic and semantic interoperability. Syntactic interoperability occurs when there are two or more systems capable of communicating and exchanging data and this is usually attainable with the use of physical standards, data standards, and messaging structures. Semantic interoperability is defined as the ability to automatically interpret the information exchanged meaningfully and accurately in order to produce useful results as defined by the end users of both systems. Semantic interoperability is usually achieved with a common information exchange reference model where the content of the information exchange requests are unambiguously defined, i.e. what is sent is the same as what is understood. In order to have the type of interoperability as defined above, systems should drive their integration goals towards semantic interoperability. This idea of attempting to attain semantic interoperability was highlighted with two conversations I had this summer while working on a project. This project entailed identifying and analyzing healthcare organizations that are integrating remote monitoring or patient generated data into their EMRs. With the proliferation of remotely generated data expanding greatly...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Tags: Remote Monitoring Standards & Regulatory Source Type: blogs