Standards Groups Collaborate to Promote HIT Standards
 
The National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP), a not-for-profit pharmacy standards development organization, announced the formation of the Standards Charter Organization (SCO), a formal collaboration among U.S. healthcare standards development organizations. The SCO will coordinate among its charter members to achieve true collaboration and harmonization of standards and interoperability that will support meaningful improvements in healthcare outcomes.

The SCO began to take shape in 2008, through a series of summits that the NCPDP facilitated with other healthcare standards development organizations. The establishment of the SCO marks a milestone for collaboration among leadership of standards development organizations and will facilitate the creation of industrywide, interoperable standards that will support sustainable HIT in the United States.

The goals of the SCO are to develop an executive forum and a process for senior leadership of the U.S. healthcare standards development community to have strategic and tactical dialogue, planning, and collaboration across standards development organizations; and to unify and harmonize healthcare industry standards to meet the interoperability and standards definition needs of all healthcare stakeholders.
 
Source: National Council for Prescription Drug Programs

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