Networking and Health Information Exchange: National and International Standards

Developing Organizations

Application Activities, Instructor Guidelines, and Expected Outcomes

Application 1: Go to one of the following URLs, www.skmtglossary.org or

https://www.ctnbestpractices.org/standards-inventory and list three standards you think
you might need to use in your work. Discuss why for each standard you select. Also
discuss how easy or difficult to navigate the space.

Expected Outcomes for Application 1: There are many solutions to this assignment.
The goal is to get the student to explore a website looking for standards and to explain
why the standard would be useful in a specific work area.

Application 2: Make a matrix for standards that might be used in a regional network and
identify a potential source for each standard.

Expected Outcomes for Application 2: There are many solutions to this assignment. For
a regional network, you would need a messaging standard, perhaps v2 or v3, maybe
DCA from HL7 or CCR from ASTM; imaging standards from DICOM, and/or prescribing
standards from NCPDP.

Health IT Workforce Curriculum Networking and Health Information Exchange 1

Version 3.0 / Spring 2012 National and International Standards Developing Organizations
Lectures a,b,and c

This material Comp9_Unit3 was developed by Duke University, funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under Award Number IU24OC000024.