Submitted by hswmin on
THIA Support for Orders
The Texas Health Informatics Alliance (THIA) Policy and Standards Working Group highly support this and are particularly enthusiastic about the ability to use this technology to streamline hospital reporting on electronic Clinical Quality Improvement (eCQI) measures. Operative (OR) modules are often divorced from the rest such that if someone were to place an order in an ambulatory setting, people in the OR module cannot necessarily see the order despite it being for the same patients. For example, oftentimes, the parents of children with very difficult phlebotomy drawings that are having a surgical procedure with anesthesia, want to take the opportunity to draw blood. However, once in the OR module, one cannot see what orders somebody has entered and if orders can be seen, they seldom make sense (i.e. no clear context available) or are old orders. This leads clinicians to be confused and flustered.
Additionally, we would like to emphasize our support for the automation of reporting and homogenization of requests to remove some of the reporting burden on hospitals. Replication of the same data is often asked for by multiple government agencies. We suggest that the same data be reported only once.
THIA Policy & Standards WG - USCDI v5 Recommendations - Orders - Orders.pdf
Submitted by jkegerize on
ACLA Comment on Orders for Draft USCDI Version 5
The American Clinical Laboratory Association (ACLA) appreciates the opportunity to comment on the data element, Orders.
This is confusing for laboratory orders because there is a “Laboratory” section. There is laboratory order information in the Laboratory section. For example, Specimen Type, Specimen Source Site. ACLA would like to understand the intent of the “Orders” section as it relates to the “Laboratory” section.