Content Standards Workgroup

The Content Standards Workgroup will evaluate current content standards and propose incremental improvements that achieve greater interoperability. This group will recommend an appropriate balance between optionality and constraints in content standards. Additionally, this group will provide recommendation on key standards initiatives, some examples may include: recommendations regarding Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) in future health IT standards, support for common data elements (CDEs), used across use cases, granular data expression, promote structured approaches for patient interventions, genomic data, consumer activity. This group will also evaluate systems and standards that are resilient to big data approaches and develop a strategy that can accommodate the movement from document-centric standards to data-centric standards.

Member List

  • Andrew Wiesenthal, Chair, Deloitte Consulting, LLP
  • Richard Elmore, Co-Chair, Allscripts
  • Kelly Aldrich, Member, Center for Medical Interoperability
  • Calvin Beebe, Member, Mayo Clinic
  • David Dinhofer, Member, Medical Society of the State of NY
  • Floyd Eisenberg, Member, iParsimony, LLC
  • Grahame Grieve, Member, National eHealth Transition Authority
  • Susan Hull, Member, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
  • Charles Jaffe, Member, Health Level 7 International
  • Kevin Kirr, Member, Dignity Health
  • John Klimek, Member, National Council for Prescription Drug Programs
  • Clem McDonald, Member, National Library of Medicine
  • Kim Nolen, Member, Pfizer, Inc.
  • Marjorie Rallins, Member, Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement
  • Joyce Sensmeier, Member, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
  • Kin Wah Fung, Ex Officio, National Library of Medicine
  • Dianne Reeves, Ex Officio, National Institutes of Health
  • James Ferguson, Liaison Member, Kaiser Permanente
  • Rebecca D. Kush, Liaison Member, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC)
  • Matthew Rahn, Staff Lead, Office of the National Coordinator-Health and Human Services

Content last reviewed on July 22, 2014
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