HSCP – Healthcare Services Platform Consortium, USA

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About

History: Incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation on August 22, 2014. Has three benefactor members:
- Intermountain Healthcare
- Louisiana State University
- Veteren’s Administration
Purpose: Improve health by creating a vibrant, open ecosystem of interoperable applications, content, and services. HSCP’s purpose is also to be a provider-led organization accelerating the delivery of a platform that supports innovative healthcare applications for the improvement of health and healthcare. Furthermore, HSPC’s purpose is to:
- create a reference implementation of common SOA
- develop terminology and information models for true semantic interoperability
- support authoring and sharing of knowledge content
- obtain implementation and adoption of approved standards
- create a shared technical environment to enable simple and efficient development and discovery
- support conformance and certification testing
- support a vendor and provider neutral marketplace
Constellation: Support from providers, government, standards orgs, professional societies, EMR vendors, 3^rd party developers
Approach: F2F meetings 3-6 times per year with ongoing discussion in between.