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IEEE, AMA, and 8 other associations join forces to work on standards to accelerate HIT adoption
Before you roll your eyes at YASE (yet another standards effort) take a look at this article at IEEE: Medical Records: From Clipboard To Point-and-Click. I’m biased (I run a local IEEE Computer Society chapter) but I think this effort might have some legs. The official word is that the IEEE has joined forces with eight other medical and engineering societies to form an umbrella consortium, the Biotechnology Council. The council’s primary goal is to standardize everything from medical terminology to networking protocols so that medical records can be stored electronically and sent instantly anywhere in the world — all with absolute privacy, security, and understandability.