Our Partners, Collaborators, and Sponsorships
Partners
CHITREC
CAP STS is the Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (CHITREC) terminology partner. CHITREC is a public-private partnership that brings together leading healthcare and information technology experts from health care organizations, academia, industry, and government and is focused on providing resources to promote Meaningful Use of health IT across all of Chicago.
dbMotion
CAP STS and dbMotion partner to provide a solution that 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.
Collaborators
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CAP STS is collaborating with the CDC in the standardization, encoding, and computerization of surgical pathology reports including the conversion of the CAP eCC into a new XML distribution format. The collaborative agreement extends the CAP eCC model into the cancer registry world, which includes the National Program for Cancer Registries (NPCR) at the CDC; the Surveillance, Epidemiology, Evaluation & Results (SEER) program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI); Cancer Care Ontario (CCO); and the Canadian Partnership against Cancer (CPAC).
Gesaworld
CAP STS and Gesaworld collaborate together to assist clients who seek to develop semantically interoperable health IT with the use of standards. Gesaworld is an international consulting group specializing in health and social sectors improvement. Their clients include organizations whose people seek to better the health and well-being of others. Gesaworld offers organizational and work process improvements, as well as the optimization of services rendered by clients.
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International
The CAP is the Laboratory Domain Sponsoring Organization. The CAP STS Diagnostic Intelligence and Health Information Technology (DIHIT) team
and CAP members will represent the CAP in the IHE collaboration. IHE, a global initiative, brings together healthcare information technology
stakeholders to implement standards for communicating patient information efficiently, and works with other domains such as Cardiology,
Radiology, and the Laboratory and IT Infrastructure.
SEIS
CAP STS and the Spanish Society of Health Informatics collaborate
and exchange information to promote the use of standards in health informatics.
Surescripts, American Hospital Association, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The College of American Pathologists (CAP), Surescripts, and the American Hospital Association (AHA) have been awarded a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant to connect hospital laboratories with public health agencies to electronically transmit data on reportable laboratory results. The three organizations will collaborate to build a “Lab Interoperability Cooperative (LIC).” The CAP’s role (CAP STS) will be two-fold: 1) helping to recruit hospital laboratories to participate; and 2) aiding hospital laboratories with data standardization.
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University of South Florida
CAP STS is collaborating with the University of South Florida under a grant agreement with the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine for its project Patient Registry Item Specifications and Metadata (PRISM) to develop standardized questions for patient registries across many different rare diseases. The standardized questions will be used for developing new patient registries and revising existing ones.
Sponsorships
American Medical Informatics Association
CAP STS is a Silver Member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), an organization that promotes the effective organization, analysis, management, and use of information in health care in support of patient care, public health, teaching, research, administration, and related policy.
HIMSS
CAP STS is a Platinum Member of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the healthcare industry’s membership organization exclusively focuses on providing global leadership for the optimal use of healthcare information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.
HIStalk
CAP STS is a Gold Sponsor of HIStalk, a healthcare IT news and opinion blog.