HITSP Begins Harmonization Process for Use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Research

HITSP Begins Harmonization Process for Use of Electronic Health Records in Clinical Research. Thirty-five leading organizations from the clinical research community have pledged support for new initiative.

Washington, DC, June 15, 2009: The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP), a cooperative partnership between the public and private sectors that works to ensure the interoperability of electronic health records (EHRs) in the United States, has begun work to identify global standards to support "core research data element exchange," specifically, a common set of information that can readily be exchanged between EHRs and clinical research systems.

As administrator of HITSP, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) appreciatively acknowledges thirty-five organizations that have contributed their financial support to make this work effort possible including BioClinica.

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