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The section includes but is not imited to other CBIIT internal requirements and national standards:

Office of the National Coordinator and National Health Standards

The US Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), is developing a set of recommendations for a nationwide health information network (NHIN). The NHIN is a set of standards, services and policies that enable secure health information exchange over the Internet. The network will provide a foundation for the exchange of health information across diverse entities, within communities and across the country, helping to achieve the goals of the HITECH Act.

Because of the convergence of federal agencies and local, regional and state-level Health Information Exchange Organizations (HIOs), the NHIN is setting a strong precedent for semantic interoperability in the United States. Many of the recommendations are likely to become part of future meaningful use specifications. With a growing number of organizations becoming part of the NHIN, it is evident that the more Semantic Infrastructure 2.0 aligns with NHIN, the less need there will be for multiple semantic interoperability strategies.

HL7

The Health Level Seven International Standards Development Organization (HL7) is an international community, working together towards a common goal of improving patient care through technology. HL7 interoperability protocols include messaging standards, decision support standards, clinical document standards, EHR functional requirements, drug product labeling standards, and more. Many of these protocols are specifically called out in the meaningful use final rules.

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