SCO Related Press Releases

 

NCPDP Press Release: “The healthcare industry has made great use of information technology to improve capabilities and reduce costs.  But, little work has been done amongst individual standards development organizations and affiliate organizations to integrate their standards into a seamless interoperable unit,” said Klimek, SCO Chair and Senior Vice President of NCPDP. “Through the SCO, and the foundational work accomplished in its summits over the past year, various industry standards development organizations and affiliate organizations are actively working together on methods to remove barriers and improve capabilities and efficiencies, which will result in more cost effective healthcare and ultimately better healthcare outcomes.”

 

HL7 Press Release: HL7’s Chief Technology Officer and SCO Chair Elect John Quinn said, “HL7 is honored to participate with our fellow SDOs in the newly-formed SCO. In this time of increased patient, policymaker, and profiler expectations, it is critical that the SDOs work together. Only through group discussion and planned project action can we provide the enhanced insight required to reach the ambitious interoperability and standards harmonization goals set before us. National efforts to pull together Electronic Health Record information in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas show us that the challenge is great and we must all make an effort to simplify the process.”  Quinn emphasized, “HL7 looks forward to working with NCPDP in this effort and comes to the SCO table ready to contribute our existing and future intellectual capital, and work with our partners to shape standards efforts in the US.”

Organizations interested in joining SCO please contact Lynne Gilbertson

 

Note to organizations: 

The SCO is formed of executives of SDO and SDO-related organizations. The SCO is focused on the collaboration of the SDOs. For associations, vendors, implementers, etc, the SCO recommends that it is more appropriate to participate at the appropriate SDO, where requests from the SDO will be brought to the SCO via the SDO representative. The SCO thanks you for your interest.

 

Please supply the following when requesting to join SCO:

· Name of Organization

· Describe the sector of industry your organization is in

· Please provide a brief overview of charter/mission of the organization

· Primary Contact Information (name, phone, email)

· Secondary Contact Information (name, phone, email)

· Proposed SCO Category:

1. Standards Development Organizations (SDOs)

2. Standards Development Organizations-related entities

3. Official Observer

 

All requests will be reviewed by the SCO at the next available face-to-face meeting.

Mission

The mission of SDO Charter Organization (SCO) is to provide an environment that facilitates effective coordination and collaboration on U.S. national healthcare informatics standards development, with recognition of the international and multi-industry stakeholder implications and challenges. Its purposes include: 

 

1. To facilitate the coordination of conventions for enhanced interoperability among diverse standards development organizations in the areas of health data acquisition, processing, and handling systems.

2. To communicate and coordinate when appropriate with the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (US TAG) in order to facilitate a unified representation of US standards (this is not intended to supersede any member’s existing coordination with the US TAG).

SCO Related Information

From our August 28,2009 meeting; we discussed the following two documents:

 

1. Standards Value Document of the SCO

2. AHIMA link to “The Value of Nurturing Development”