Organization formed to further interoperability
A new provider led, not-for-profit, multistakeholder organization aims to foster a collaborative industry-wide initiative for an open services oriented architecture (SOA)-based platform, a next-generation technology model and multi-vendor restful web services modeled against HL7 FHIR and CIMI/CEM based profiles.
The Healthcare Services Platform Consortium (HSPC) received commitment from Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare and LSU Health Care Services Division, a Baton Rouge-based academic healthcare organization, as founding members.
HSPC also appointed Stanley M. Huff, MD, CMIO at Intermountain Healthcare, as chairman of the board of directors, and Oscar Diaz, former vice president and general manager of Harris Healthcare Solutions, as CEO.
The consortium’s primary objective, according to a release, is to leverage hard-won work on SOA at the Veterans Administration, Intermountain, Arizona State University, Regenstrief Institute and other organizations to accelerate application development through an open-standards-based, SOA platform and create a new marketplace for semantic, native interoperability in healthcare. HSPC will support an "app store" model which will support common services and models that vendors can use to shorten development lifecycles.
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