医疗卫生信息技术标准概述(一)

An Overview of Healthcare IT Standards

信息技术(IT)已经在医疗卫生领域中广泛应用于临床信息的收集、处理、管理和使用。IT技术的重要应用之一是建立病人不同来源的临床数据的长期记录,并在任何需要的时候和地点以安全的方式向医生提供这些信息。病人数据无缝集成将极大地改善医疗质量及减少医疗错误。为了在不同系统之间交换临床信息及实现互操作性,开放标准起着非常关键的作用。本文提供医疗卫生领域一些主要信息技术标准及其应用的一个概述。

Information Technologies (IT) have been widely spread to the healthcare fields for collection, processing, management, and utilization of clinical information. One of the promises of IT applications is to establish a longitudinal record of patient clinical data produced from various sources, and to make it available to physicians in a secured manner, whenever and wherever needed. Such a seamless integration of patient data will greatly improve care delivery quality and reduce medical errors. To interchange clinical information and enable the interoperability across disparate systems, open standards play a crucial role. This paper provides an overview of some major healthcare IT standards and their applications.