HealthIT Answers December 14, 2020
By Steven Posnack, M.S., M.H.S. Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Standards come about for many reasons. They make things more efficient, cost effective, and safer to name a few. Often you’ll hear witty banter in the standards community (I know…right!?) about whether something is “fit for purpose.” This is also accompanied by the question, “what’s your use case?”
Among the outliers and edge cases there are some things on which we really do need to agree across the health care ecosystem and implement consistently. How we represent a patient’s address is one of them. In particular, as mundane as address may seem it is often one of the key elements used for the purposes of patient matching and...
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