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If I understand your question, probably a CCDA. I think the real problem is no system has a reliably comprehensive picture. After that, it is challenging to fi
by methehack 11y ago
If I understand your question, probably a CCDA. I think the real problem is no system has a reliably comprehensive picture. After that, it is challenging to find a reliable global patient identifier. Epic says they have the health records of 175M americans. I would say they have parts of records of 175M americans and probably a lot of dupes.
- cordite 11y agoGiven that these numbers are individually sourced from customers, customers own their own data, and all interchange is P2P--there's not a good way to really count. Customers own their range of member-numbers as well. Plus, the whole thing about identity is even more difficult, you can't go by name, SSN, and DOB alone. As far as I know, HL7 is mostly used between internal systems within an organization. For sending actual patient data, allergies, conditions, CCDA is usually used for communication with non-Epic EMRs belonging to other organizations. As an aside, CCDA and HL7 don't support rich data well, so they usually end up as base64 encoded PDFs.