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Common Healthcare Data Interoperability Project

Description 
The Common Healthcare Data Interoperability Project is a collaboration between The Pew Charitable Trusts (Pew) and the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) to advance interoperability among electronic health records and registries. Working with Pew, DCRI seeks to:
•	identify the clinical concepts that appear frequently across multiple registries, 
•	determine how those concepts should be best represented as standardized common data elements (CDEs), and 
•	create an implementation guide for database developers so that registries and health information technology developers can implement the standardized CDEs with the least amount of effort.

Rather than create a new data standard, this project will rely on predicate content included in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology 2018 US Core Data for Interoperability, Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources profiles and resources, and reference the work of standards development organizations, such as LOINC and other groups that have addressed aspects of the data interoperability problem.
Start Date 
01/17/2018
Projected End Date 
11/30/2018
Project Tags 
  • Clinical Registry
  • Common data elements
  • FHIR
  • HL7
  • Terminology
  • US Core Data for Interoperability
Project Point of Contact: rebecca.wilgusremove@removeduke.edu
Project Results 
None