HIPAA and HITECH have designated some technical standards as mandatory. Which of the following are associated with the implementation of standards? Select all that apply
1. The standards are insufficient to enable collection, management, and exchange of the mandated data.
2. Technical standards are needed to assure that structured and codified terminologies
3. Technical standards are needed to sufficiently capture all of health care
4. Standards must be widely available
5. Technical standards should be easily exchanged within and across organizations
1,2,3,4,5
Rationale: While HIPAA and HITECH have designated some technical standards as mandatory, those standards are insufficient to enable collection, management, and exchange of the mandated data. Technical standards are needed to assure that structured and codified terminologies, sufficiently comprehensive to capture all of health care, are widely available, that data can be securely and easily exchanged within and across organizations, and that a valid, safe, and reliable patient-centered community-care record can be created and maintained (Arlotto, 2010).
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