Health IT Architecture & Standards

Includes Health IT Architecture encompasses business, functional, and technical architecture. Health IT Standards encompasses communication standards, data standards, graphics/imaging standards, terminology standards, etc. such as HL7, DICOM, SNOMED, LOINC and more.

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Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a not-for-profit consortium that drives the development, convergence and adoption of open standards for the global information society. Read More »

Proposed Open Data Protocol (OData) Standard

Alex James | Open Data Protocol | May 24, 2012

...Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, Progress Software, SAP and WSO2 are jointly submitting a proposal for the standardization of OData [Open Data Protocol] to OASIS. Read More »

Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC)

The Public Health Data Standards Consortium (PHDSC) is a national non-profit membership-based organization of federal, state, and local health agencies; professional associations, academia; public and private sector organizations; international members; and individuals. Read More »

Public Health Information Network (PHIN)

Public Health Information Network (PHIN) is a national Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) initiative to improve the capacity of public health practitioners and researchers to use and exchange a range of public health  information electronically. Read More »

Regenstrief Institute

Regenstrief Institute medical informatics research scientists comprise one of the largest medical informatics physician brain trusts in the U.S. They conduct research to improve health care by improving the capture, analysis, content and delivery of the health information needed by patients, their healthcare providers, and policy makers. Read More »

The Open Group

The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, whose vision of Boundaryless Information Flow will enable access to integrated information, within and among enterprises, based on open standards and global interoperability. Read More »

Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identification (VUHID)

The goal of the Voluntary Universal Healthcare Identification (VUHID) project is to make unique healthcare identifiers available to any patient who uses the services of a regional health information organization (RHIO) or health information exchange (HIE) to: Read More »

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

The international World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) mission is to help lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols, standards, and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web. W3C's vision for the Web involves participation, sharing knowledge, and thereby building trust on a global scale.