Healthcare IT News January 10, 2022
Mike Miliard

The new Final Version 1.0 provides unified specifications for patient addresses. A new companion guide developed with AHIMA offers healthcare organizations help with implementation.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT this past week released the Project US@ Technical Specification Final Version 1.0, in collaboration with healthcare standards development organizations and other healthcare stakeholders.

WHY IT MATTERS
The new specification (it’s pronounced “Project USA”) was developed as a unified, cross-standard approach that can be implemented across healthcare organizations of all shapes and sizes. The aim is to offer a unified method for representing mailing, physical, billing and other addresses, to help improve patient matching.

Standardized representation of how addresses are written in healthcare records has long been an elusive...

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Topics: ASTP/ONC, Govt Agencies, Health IT, HIE (Interoperability), Patient / Consumer, Provider, Technology
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