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The CAP Recruiting 500 Hospital Labs for Lab Interoperability Cooperative
The CAP, the American Hospital Association (AHA), and Surescripts are collaborating on a grant from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to electronically connect hospital laboratories to public health agencies. The Lab Interoperability Cooperative (LIC) is recruiting 500 hospital labs (100 of which are critical access hospitals) to participate.
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Nationwide Electronic Lab Reporting: AHA, CAP, Surescripts form collaborative to connect to CDC, Healthcare Informatics reports.
The American Hospital Association (Chicago) and the College of American Pathologists (Northfield, Ill.), along with the cooperation of the St. Paul, Minn.-based Surescripts recently embarked on a two-year grant to electronically link hospital laboratories with public health agencies. The $5 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began on Jan. 31, and will include a recruitment phase, a pilot phase, and then will finally connect the targeted 500 hospital laboratories, 100 of which will be critical access hospitals.
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The CAP Collaborates in Lab Interoperability Cooperative with Surescripts and the American Hospital Association
Surescripts, the American Hospital Association and the College of American Pathologists today announced they have been awarded a grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to connect hospital laboratories with public health agencies to electronically transmit data on reportable laboratory results.
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Charles Wagner to Lead CAP’s Services in Health IT Marketplace
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) announced today the hiring of Charles Wagner as Vice President and General Manager of its STS (SNOMED Terminology Solutions™) division. Wagner will lead CAP STS’ professional services capability expansion in the health IT marketplace.
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A Technology Breakthrough for Pathology: CAP Contributes to DICOM
Supplement 145
The College of American Pathologists’ (CAP), a member of the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standards Committee, contributed to the expansion of the DICOM medical image exchange standard Supplement 145—the first for pathology.
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CAP and Gesaworld Form Collaboration to Advance Health IT Standards
The College of American Pathologists’ division CAP STS signed a collaboration agreement with Barcelona, Spain-headquartered Gesaworld, a consultancy in the health and social sectors, to work together in advancing the use of standards in health information technology.
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CAP Becomes IHE Laboratory Domain Sponsoring Organization
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International, Incorporated (IHE) has named the College of American Pathologists (CAP) as the primary Sponsoring Organization of the IHE Laboratory Domain.
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HIT Standards Committee Recommends SNOMED CT Requirement by 2015 for Bonuses Under Economic Recovery Law, Healthcare IT News reports.
The HIT Standards Committee, the federal advisory panel on health IT standards, has endorsed recommendations on how providers may electronically record a physician’s observations to qualify for federal bonuses. The recommendations urge SNOMED Clinical Terms^® (SNOMED CT^®) for physician’s clinical observations by 2015. In 2010, providers must use SNOMED CT or ICD-9 to qualify; in 2013, they must use SNOMED CT or ICD-10. Read more.

Article by CAP Executive Vice President Charles Roussel
Please be sure to read “Healthcare reform: Expanding the role of pathology,” written by Charles Roussel, Executive Vice President of the College of American Pathologists, published in Medical Laboratory Observer.

Spain Joins Global Health Terminology Effort
Spain, through the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, is now one in the group of countries that are part of International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. Spain joins the global effort to develop, maintain and spread the use of a clinical terminology called SNOMED CT.
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CAP STS and dbMotion Team to Realize Vision of Advanced Interoperability
SNOMED Terminology Solutions™(STS) and dbMotion, a provider of health interoperability and intelligence solutions, have announced a partnership aimed at delivering a solution that enables their clients to reach the highest levels of interoperability and raises the industry’s bar for advanced interoperability. This solution aims to define a semantic health information exchange (HIE) ontology based on SNOMED Clinical Terms^® (SNOMED CT^®) for clinical vocabularies that is essential for achieving semantic interoperability.
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Article by CAP STS Clinical Informatics Educator Cynthia B. Lundberg, RN, BSN
Please make sure to read “Accurate Electronic Patient Charts—A Standardized Clinical Language Is Key to Success” written by Cynthia B. Lundberg, RN, BSN, STS clinical informatics educator, published September 29, 2008 in For The Record.

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