ONC wants comments about metadata standards for EHRs
From the article:
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has released an advance on a proposed rule about the use of existing metadata standards to support electronic health information exchange and to get feedback on the experience from various organizations that may have applied them.
ONC is considering inclusion of certain metadata standards in stage 2 of meaningful use.
The use of metadata, or elements that describe data, is considered key to fueling more complex health information exchange.
If you are maintaining or building topic maps to integrate medical data you will be interested in this proposal.
Metadata Standards to Support Nationwide Electronic Health Information Exchange for the call for comments and the proposal.
Comment period ends 23 September 2011
Patient identity and data provenance figure prominently in this proposal.