CAQH announced Feb. 11 that the eligibility data content section of its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE) Phase I rules is a final component of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel’s (HITSP) first set of interoperability standards. These standards were formally recognized by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt late last month.
This recognition means that those CORE rules, included in HITSP’s consumer empowerment interoperability specifications, can be incorporated into federal agencies’ healthcare programs. It also marks the start of a process through which the Certification Commission on Health Information Technology (CCHIT) can begin testing for CORE data content compliance in products it certifies.
HITSP, a standards panel of the American National Standards Institute, was established to harmonize the hundreds of individual standards needed to create a nationwide health information network. CAQH launched CORE to create an all-payer solution that gives providers access to insurance information before or at the time of service using the electronic system of their choice for any patient or health plan. Read the press release.
