Standard Guide for Coordination of Clinical Laboratory Services within
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In 2001, ASTM Committee E31 decided to restructure its operations, with the intent of focusing on standards-development issues such as security, privacy, and the electronic health record. Part of the reorganization plan was to explore the option of transferring responsibility for nine E31.13 standards to NCCLS. The NCCLS Area Committee on Automation and Informatics, at its meeting in April 2002, reached a positive assessment of the value of the ASTM standards and encouraged the NCCLS Executive Offices staff to pursue negotiations with ASTM on transferring these standards to NCCLS. Following this transfer, these nine standards (formerly ASTM E792; E1029; E1238; E1246; E1381; E1394; E1466; E1639; and E2118) have been redesignated as NCCLS standards LIS1 through LIS9. The Area Committee on Automation and Informatics has assumed responsibility for maintaining the documents and will revise or update each document in accord with NCCLS Administrative Procedures. This document is the equivalent of ASTM E2118-00 but has been redesignated and is now maintained by NCCLS. This document has been approved as an American National Standard (ANSI\/ASTM E2118-00).<\/p>\n
. Scope 1.1 This guide covers the process of defining and documenting the capabilities, the logical data sources and pathways of data exchange within a given network architecture of a Health Information Network (HIN) serving a set of constituents. It is not a technical implementation standard but, rather, it describes how the implementation methods and techniques can be used to logically coordinate clinical laboratory services and Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems involving participating organizations and sites connected by a networked communication system. It covers the content of the nodes and arcs of the resulting logical network involving both laboratory and EHR-capable sites. It also considers the various purposes and organizational arrangements for coordinating laboratory services within the network boundaries and the considerations for connections among external networks. 1.2 It refers to other standards for conventions within various data domains, such as Clinical Laboratory Information Management Systems (CLIMS) and EHR systems, and for messaging conventions. It is intended to outline how integration of CLIMS and EHR Systems can be undertaken to result in a transparent clinical decision support environment, regardless of the underlying implementation architecture, by describing the logical interoperability of information domains as facilitated by Information and Communications Technology (ICT). 1.3 It is directed at clinical laboratorians, information system managers and information sy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[26],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"\n