Health Informatics Research Guide: Standards

Health information technology standards for individual and public health.

Serves an advisory role to promote the use of health IT to improve healthcare information exchange.

Develops and maintains Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards.

Develops and maintains standardized data set for use by the non-institutional health care community to transmit claim and encounter information to and from all third-party payers.

Develops national standards for electronic exchange of healthcare information for prescribing, dispensing, monitoring, managing and paying for medications and pharmacy services.

Billing codes used by Medicare and monitored by CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.