Sal
Branca, Chartis member and ACORD Director, attended a meeting in our office with Greg Gleason, from
NueVista Strategy, to discuss medical data standards that exist in the
Healthcare industry and the data that our Life and Non-LIfe sectors
use. Mr. Gleason has been a consultant to a wide range of
organizations. Several Non-Life organizations have been collaborating
on data formats for workers compensation related information. The
purpose of our meeting was to better understand the Healthcare space
(particularly knowing all the trade organizations involved) so we can
be prepared to support our members working with medical data. It also
applies to the LAH (Life) Standards that we now have in place by adding
more granularity to our less-specific data elements.
We
agreed to convene a Medical Data Summit of interested members this
year. We would include several presentations on the topic, obtain
feedback and create an advisory group as needed to move forward. Ann
Henstrand and Lloyd Chumbley will manage this effort moving forward.
My latest book presents the challenges members face when adopting industry standards as well as the opportunities that come as a result. It features my discussions with many people over many years and follows the foundation I set in my first book "The Business Information Revolution".
Industry standards are never adopted in a vacuum. They become part and parcel of all the trials and tribulations managers face in their day to day work. ACORD Standards are always part of a larger software development project that brings along people, priorities and politics. Adopting industry standards isn't simple, but the benefits far outweigh the problems of building and maintaining proprietary alternatives.
I trust that you will appreciate my frankness, identify with some of the challenges and learn from what others have done to pave the way.
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