Health Information Standards

1.5 credits · Graduate

The study of health information standards deployed and used in Canada and elsewhere. The standards examined are controlled terminology and data exchange standards that include SNOMED CT, ICD-10-CA/CCI, LOINC, nursing terminologies, information modeling, HL7V2.x, HL7V3/CDA, FHIR and IHE. Topics include the nature of standards, their historical evolution and lifecycles for standards from initial development, distribution to maintenance.