Hi All, as a co-author of this stack of technical documents now in the process of becoming HISO standards, it is my pleasure to share the ews with you. Further details as follows:

The purpose of this email is to inform you that the draft Heath Information Exchange Architecture Building Blocks Specifications are now open for  public comment and we invite you or your organisation to participate in the public comment phase of the project.

The draft Heath Information Exchange Architecture Building Blocks Specifications are a suite of documents which are the first step towards achieving the vision of interoperability as defined by the National Health IT Plan.    The documents are of a technical nature.  Accordingly, we have provided an overview document, see attached.  A detailed glossary is also provided in the attachment.  

The documents released for public comment are:

1.        HISO 10040.1 HIE Clinical Data Repository Utility Services, specifying a style of information exchange based on the registry-repository model of the IHE Cross Enterprise Document Sharing (XDS) integration profile

2.        HISO 10040.3 HIE Structured Documents, specifying HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) structured documents as the common currency of information exchange

3.        HISO 10040.2 HIE Content Model, specifying a common shared content model, with the ASTM Continuity of Care Record (CCR) as the basis for core health information, extensible per clinical specialty

These documents can be found on our website by following the link:

http://www.ithealthboard.health.nz/standards-open-for-public-comment

Comments on the documents are due on 17 October 2011