One of the key challenges in health IT is surmounting the data integration issues. For instance, take time discrepancies. Discrepancies between a medical device clock time, the time stamp on an electronic medical record and clock time on a wall can make all the difference if a nurse or physician is trying to gauge the effectiveness of a patient’s therapy. Dr Julian Goldman, who heads up the Medical Device Plug and Play Interoperability Program at Massachusetts General, is leading the charge to set up a national portal in the next three months that would collect information on adverse events and document areas where interoperability could improve patient safety.
He talked about the Clinical Scenario Repository program at the American Health Information Management Association’s Health Information Integrity summit in Alexandria, Virginia during National health IT week, which started today.
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Another area where the portal would focus its attention is patient controlled analgesia. It’s a critical issue — patients become overmedicated and can die of respiratory failure.
The point is that these issues tend to get reported regionally, when they’re shared by many institutions and should get national attention in order to solve them.
“We don’t have a national approach to solving that problem,” he said. “It’s a larger national health issue that should probably fit under HHS rather than FDA.”
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