Axolotl actively participates on the following industry workgroups and committees, driving healthcare interoperability, standards and overall quality of technology for improved patient care.
CCHIT Networks Working Group
The Certification Commission is a recognized certification body for electronic health records and their
networks with a mission to accelerate the adoption of health information technology by creating an efficient,
credible and sustainable certification program.
Interoperable EHRs require a structure for sharing information—a secure network. With the guidance of the cross-cutting work groups -- Interoperability, Privacy and Security -- the HIE Work Group is tasked with initiating the development of criteria and tests for these emerging health information exchanges.
HITSP/CCHIT Joint Working Group
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) is a cooperative partnership between the public
and private sectors. The Panel was formed for the purpose of harmonizing and integrating standards that will
meet clinical and business needs for sharing information among organizations and systems.
Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN)
The Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) is being developed to provide a secure, nationwide, interoperable
health information infrastructure that will connect providers, consumers, and others involved in supporting health
and healthcare. Axolotl has participated with a number of customers, to demonstrate the ability to connect healthcare
and save lives.
NHIN Direct
In addition to participating in the NHIN demonstrations, Axolotl is also a part of NHIN Direct. NHIN Direct is a project to expand the standards and service definitions that, with a policy framework, constitute the NHIN. Those standards and services will allow organizations to deliver simple, direct, secure and scalable transport of health information over the Internet between known participants in support of Stage 1 meaningful use.
The key deliverables of the project will be standards and service definitions, implementation guides, reference implementations, and associated testing frameworks
eHealth Initiative
The ehealth initiative and the foundation for ehealth Initiative are independent, non profit affiliated organizations
whose missions are the same: to drive improvements in the quality, safety, and efficiency of healthcare through information
and information technology. Both organizations are focused on engaging multiple and diverse stakeholders to define and
implement actions to address quality, safety, and efficiency challenges of our healthcare system through the use of
interoperable information technology.
HL7
Health Level Seven is a not-for-profit volunteer organization. Its members-- providers, vendors, payers,
consultants, government groups and others who have an interest in the development and advancement of
clinical and administrative standards for healthcare—develop the standards. Health Level Seven develops
specifications, the most widely used being a messaging standard that enables disparate healthcare
applications to exchange keys sets of clinical and administrative data.
HIMSS
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is the healthcare industry's membership
organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information
technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
HIE Portfolio Task Force
This task force will focus on development of deliverables and tools that can be leveraged in the health information exchange environment especially around ARRA.
HIE Open Source Task Force
This workgroup will develop the technical requirements for the protocols (CHIxP), core services and overall architecture of New York’s Health Information Infrastructure starting with the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY) as well as the operational and environmental processes to support the infrastructure.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE)
IHE is an initiative by healthcare professionals and industry to improve the way computer systems in
healthcare share information. IHE promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM
and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care. Systems developed in
accordance with IHE communicate with one another better, are easier to implement, and enable care
providers to use information more effectively.
IHE Technical Committee
The IHE Technical Committee is responsible for maintaining and correcting the IHE Technical Frameworks. This is a resource for developers and implementers of healthcare imaging and information systems. They define specific implementations of established standards to achieve effective systems integration, facilitate appropriate sharing of medical information and support optimal patient care.
Heal
We have helped several New York customers achieve their HEAL objective, advancing the health information
infrastructure in order to support improvements in quality, affordability, and outcomes in healthcare for
New Yorkers. Components of the infrastructure include a statewide HIE network in order for New York to
advance interoperability as well as a community wide adoption of EHR.
New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC)
NYeC was founded by health care leaders across the state, with leadership and support from the New York State Department of Health, as a public-private partnership that will serve as a focal point for health care stakeholders to build consensus on state health IT policy priorities, and collaborate on state and regional health IT implementation efforts.
Protocols and Services Workgroup, NY The protocols and Services workgroup will develop the technical requirements for the protocols (CHIxP), core services and overall architecture of New York’s Health Information Infrastructure starting with the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY) as well as the operational and environmental processes to support the infrastructure.
Privacy and Security Workgroup, NY This workgroup will develop the suite of privacy and security policies, including: consumer consent, authentication, authorization, access controls, and audits as well as the operational and environmental processes to support these policies, and the regulatory framework to enforce them.
Michigan Health Information Network
The Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) is the state of Michigan's initiative to improve health care quality, cost, efficiency, and patient safety through electronic exchange of health information. The MiHIN is essential to ensuring that Michigan's health care providers can utilize Electronic Health Records or EHRs in a meaningful way that allows for a patient's health information to be available when they need it most - at the point of care. The MiHIN is fundamentally the infrastructure that mobilizes existing electronic health information in a manner that allows healthcare providers to access and exchange it regardless of individual technology choices.
Technical Workgroup The Technical Workgroup will be responsible for the development of technical deliverables for the statewide HIE effort and collaborating with the other workgroups to ensure that business operation capabilities are built into the infrastructure. Another function of the team will be to develop detailed specifications for the communication standards and protocols necessary for secure stakeholder or RHIO to backbone communications.
Texas e-Health Alliance
The Texas e-Health Alliance unites the provider, corporate, non-profit and academic communities together with policymakers to ensure a robust, well-coordinated e-health policy for the state of Texas. The Alliance was founded in 2009, and represents the e-health industry's interest in promoting improved health care for all Texans.
HFMA- Healthcare Financial Management Association
HFMA is the nation's leading membership organization for healthcare financial management executives and leaders. More than 35,000 members--ranging from CFOs to controllers to accountants--consider HFMA a respected thought leader on top trends and issues facing the healthcare industry. HFMA members can be found in all areas of the healthcare system, including hospitals, managed care organizations; physician practices, accounting firms, and insurance companies. HFMA helps finance leaders create and maintain fiscally sound healthcare organizations in order to provide excellent patient care.
CalOHII
Formerly known as the California Office of HIPAA Implementation, CalOHII changed its name in August 2008 to reflect its expanded role, as it began to support the Health and Human Services Agency’s HIE initiatives. CalOHII is now working with a wide spectrum of healthcare stakeholders including representatives from the healthcare industry, consumers, and privacy and security advocates to develop new privacy and security standards to enable the adoption and application of health information exchange in California.
HIE Committee The CalOHII HIE Committee is in charge of providing health information exchange organizations perspective and advice on the privacy and security issues and guidelines, including; reviewing and making recommendations on security issues and guidelines, developing detailed guidelines for selected use cases that are applicable to HIE, provide review of the privacy, security, legal and education committee proposals to the CalPSAB. The group may also comment on, or review issues that involve HIE evaluation tools, sustainability models, clinical priorities and use cases, public health reporting, and quality measures.
California Privacy and Security Advisory Board CalPSAB provides private and public collaboration to address and coordinate health information exchange (HIE) privacy and security efforts in California.
Oregon HITOC- Health Information Technology Oversight Council
The HITOC, within the Oregon Health Authority, will coordinate Oregon's public and private statewide efforts in electronic health records adoption and the development of a statewide system for HIE.
The HITOC will help Oregon meet federal requirements so that providers may be eligible for millions of federal health information technology stimulus dollars. The HITOC takes over previous efforts of the Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee (HIIAC) and the Health Information Security & Privacy Collaborative (HISPC).
Java Community Process
The Java Community Process is a committee who assist in developing standard technical specifications for Java technology. All members get the opportunity to have their work become part of an official component of the Java Platform, improving and growing the technology, by proposing new Java API specification projects, and by commenting on all specification developed in the JCP.