Healthcare IT Today December 10, 2020
The ONC has announced plans to develop the unified specification for the use of addresses in healthcare. The new effort, Project US@, whose goal is to issue a unified, cross-SDO, healthcare industry-wide specification for representing addresses, will launch formally at the start of 2021. You may remember we talked about using a patients address to help solve the patient identification problem back in April during our National Patient Identifier conversation.
The ONC is conducting the program in collaboration with HL7, the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs, and X12, along with other standards development organizations and members of the Health Standards Collaborative.
Among the standards managed by HL7, NCPDP, and X12 there are already fields for address, but the approach...
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