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<h2 id="project_tagline">The goal of this project is to demonstrate a flexible, adaptive means of communicating healthcare information in a form that is suitable for exchange between health care organizations and patients for clinical, research, and evidence-based medical practice.</h2>
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<p>The goal of this project is to demonstrate a flexible, adaptive means of communicating healthcare information in a form that is suitable for exchange between health care organizations and patients for clinical, research, and evidence-based medical practice, as envisioned by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST [<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/pcast-health-it-report.pdf">PCAST2010</a>] ). In 2010, PCAST issued a report entitled “Realizing the Full Potential of Health Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward” calling for a universal exchange language to improve the quality of healthcare and reduce its cost:</p>
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"The best way to give clinicians a unified, patientcentric record tailored for each medical encounter is to store, maintain, update, and exchange the data as small, distributed, metadatatagged elements"
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<p>The report is cautious about relying on a single "standard data model"</p>
<blockquote><p>"We believe that any attempt to create a national health IT ecosystem based on standardized record formats is doomed to failure." </p></blockquote>
<p>It recommends a language that promotes distributed definition of expression ("a universal exchange language whose semantics is intrinsically extensible") so that the government and others can</p>
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<p>"unburden itself of a potentially never ending and intrusive government role in the harmonization of health record meanings across all private sector products."</p></blockquote>
<p>On one hand, this call for a metadata-based model is a fundamentally new vision of how we handle health information. On the other hand, it is a confirmation of the approach that has been used successfully for decades in both the VA VistA and the DoD CHCS systems, in the form of a metadata-driven data dictionary system.</p>
<p><h5>For more information about the project and the current environment, see the following links:</h5></p>
<p><a href="A Vision of a Semantic Health Care Information Architecture.pdf">Architectural Vision</a></p>
<p><a href="SemanticHealthcare.pdf">Current Environment Review</a></p>
<p>For more information, please contact:
<p> <a href="https://github.com/wturner">wturner</a></p>
<p> <a href="https://github.com/conorcaregraf">conorcaregraf</a></p>
<p> <a href="https://github.com/munnecke">munnecke</a></p>
<p> <a href="https://github.com/luisibanez">luisibanez</a></p>
<p> <a href="https://github.com/jeffbaumes">jeffbaumes</a></p></p>
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<p>This work is supported by the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command under Contract
No. W81XWH-13-C-0042.</p>
<p> The views, opinions and/or findings contained in this report are those of the author(s) and should not be construed as an official
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