PARCA eNews – Dec. 22, 2016 – ONC released the 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) – a coordinated catalog of existing and emerging standards and implementation specifications developed and used to meet specific interoperability needs. In short, the advisory provides a single resource for those looking for federally recognized, national interoperability standards and guidance.
The Interoperability Standards Advisory (ISA) process represents the model by which the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will coordinate the identification, assessment, and determination of the “best available” interoperability standards and implementation specifications for industry use to fulfill specific clinical health IT interoperability needs.
Specifically, the 2016 Interoperability Standards Advisory includes significant structural changes (previewed earlier this fall for comment). Most notably, the 2016 Advisory includes six informative characteristics for each standard and implementation specification referenced. The advisory also includes security standards and projected additions.
The ISA is meant to provide the industry with a single, public list of the standards and implementation specifications, to reflect the results of ongoing dialogue, debate, and consensus among industry stakeholders and to document known limitations, preconditions, and dependencies as well as known security patterns among referenced standards and implementation specifications when they are used to fulfill a specific clinical health IT interoperability need.
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