Data standards to support health information exchange between poison control centers and emergency departments.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Poison control centers (PCCs) routinely collaborate with emergency departments (EDs) to provide care for poison-exposed patients. During this process, a significant amount of information is exchanged between EDs and PCCs via telephone, leading to important inefficiencies and safety vulnerabilities. In the present work, we identified and assessed a set of data standards to enable a standards-based health information exchange process between EDs and PCCs.

Materials and methods

Based on a reference model for PCC-ED health information exchange, we (1) mapped PCC-ED information exchange events to clinical documents specified in the Health Level Seven (HL7) Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Standard, and (2) mapped information types routinely exchanged

SUBMITTER: Del Fiol G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11749303 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature