Fund and otherwise support a private sector organization to oversee the ongoing maintenance and continuous development of the vocabulary standards selected. Information systems vendors The private sector should be responsible for developing software that uses, and adds value to, the selected standards. Private information systems vendors are equipped with the expertise as well as the motivation to respond quickly to the needs of healthcare providers. Vendors are in a position fill market needs and constantly improve technology to the greatest benefit of the industry. If computer systems are to improve the quality of health care, they must be able to exchange data promptly and accurately, and to aggregate data in an efficient, cost-effective manner.
Data sharing requires a common data model, and a defined vocabulary within the model.
For business goals Information systems businesses will move forward by creating software applications that add value to information that is already being collected, as opposed to investing development time in devising new ways to collect or share data. Here again, data sharing is the goal and the vocabulary and data model are the tools needed to reach the goal. Business case for rapid standards implementation Delay in implementing standards means significant costs to vendors as well as healthcare providers. Whatever systems are developed and implemented now, based on vendor-specific standards, will have to be modified to exchange information using the uniform standards that are eventually adopted. The time, effort, and money invested by vendors and providers in the meantime are only temporary.