Healthcare IT News May 27, 2024
It will be patterned after the US Core Data for Interoperability standards.
New Zealand’s Health Information Standards Organisation is now developing new standards for interoperable health information exchange in the country.
In an update on the progress of the Hira programme, Te Whatu Ora disclosed that HISO is working on the NZ Core Data for Interoperability (NZCDI). Patterned after the United States’ Core Data for Interoperability standards, it will be the “standard for the most commonly shared health data in clinical workflows and consumer access to data.”
WHY IT MATTERS
New Zealand is enabling full interoperability across its digital health ecosystem. In 2020, HISO released the Interoperability Roadmap, which serves as its guide to that goal. Its key deliverable was...