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| − | In August 2011, the Medical Information Technology Committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology released their recommendations to eye specialists of the special considerations they should look for when purchasing an EMR. Some of the elements duplicate the meaningful use requirements, but others are unique like supporting the AAO Preferred Practice Patterns™ | + | In August 2011, the Medical Information Technology Committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology released their recommendations to eye specialists of the special considerations they should look for when purchasing an EMR. Some of the elements duplicate the meaningful use requirements, but others are unique like supporting the AAO Preferred Practice Patterns™, organizing eye-specific elements separately including past ocular history and ocular medications, supporting ocular drawings with ocular templates, exchange ophthalmic clinical data with EHRs from other vendors, record VAs and refractive discrete elements in accordance with DICOM supplement 130, record intraocular pressure as a discrete data element, and support vendor-neutral standards and profiles for orders and data from ophthalmic instruments. EHR vendors protested the requirements for vendor-neutral standards as ophthalmic instrument vendors have been extraordinarily slow to adopt DICOM and other standards in new equipment with the minority of new meeting a vendor-neutral standard. Due to the 10 to 20 year replacement cycle for ophthalmic equipment, the majority of equipment in use is non-compliant. |
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| + | Special Requirements for Electronic Health Record Systems in Ophthalmology | ||
| + | Michael F. Chiang, Michael V. Boland, Allen Brewer, K. David Epley, Mark B. Horton, Michele C. Lim, Colin A. McCannel, Sayjal J. Patel, David E. Silverstone, Linda Wedemeyer, Flora Lum | ||
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| + | Ophthalmology 1 August 2011 (volume 118 issue 8 Pages 1681-1687 DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.04.015) | ||
Revision as of 03:45, 15 August 2011
In August 2011, the Medical Information Technology Committee of the American Academy of Ophthalmology released their recommendations to eye specialists of the special considerations they should look for when purchasing an EMR. Some of the elements duplicate the meaningful use requirements, but others are unique like supporting the AAO Preferred Practice Patterns™, organizing eye-specific elements separately including past ocular history and ocular medications, supporting ocular drawings with ocular templates, exchange ophthalmic clinical data with EHRs from other vendors, record VAs and refractive discrete elements in accordance with DICOM supplement 130, record intraocular pressure as a discrete data element, and support vendor-neutral standards and profiles for orders and data from ophthalmic instruments. EHR vendors protested the requirements for vendor-neutral standards as ophthalmic instrument vendors have been extraordinarily slow to adopt DICOM and other standards in new equipment with the minority of new meeting a vendor-neutral standard. Due to the 10 to 20 year replacement cycle for ophthalmic equipment, the majority of equipment in use is non-compliant.
References
Special Requirements for Electronic Health Record Systems in Ophthalmology Michael F. Chiang, Michael V. Boland, Allen Brewer, K. David Epley, Mark B. Horton, Michele C. Lim, Colin A. McCannel, Sayjal J. Patel, David E. Silverstone, Linda Wedemeyer, Flora Lum
Ophthalmology 1 August 2011 (volume 118 issue 8 Pages 1681-1687 DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2011.04.015)
