Comments on: What I learned about CCR, Part I http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/06/27/1190 e-Health. Patient empowerment. Washington, DC. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:24:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: David C. Kibbe, MD MBA http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/06/27/1190#comment-1548 David C. Kibbe, MD MBA Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:33:39 +0000 http://www.tedeytan.com/2008/06/27/1190#comment-1548 Ted: Thanks for the post about the CCR standard. A couple of minor corrections. In you section "What exactly is CCR?" I would say it this way: The CCR standard is two basic things - it is a personal health data set, that is, content about a person such as diagnoses and medications, which resides in a fairly easy to read spreadsheet. An implementation guide, or IG, includes the spreadsheet and explains the "how to" of every element, most of which are optional and may or may not be included in a CCR file produced for an individual. The CCR standard is also an XML "schema," which is programming code that describes precisely how each content element in the CCR should be arranged in XML, eXtensible Markup Language. The schema is a bit of XML technology that connects the CCR standard in a logical way to standards already used by other industries to move data (getting us away from the "health care is different" model). It also makes the content machine-readable. The CCR standard is licensed by ASTM International, a non-profit. ASTM asks that companies who wish to use the CCR in their products or services pay a one time fee of $100 for the standard IG and schema, but after that they are free to use the CCR standard without any royalty or additional fees. Some additional components related to the CCR standard, such as the XSLT that transforms the .xml file to .html , making the content readable in a web browser, are open source licensed under the Apache GNU License. I hope these minor changes make sense! The blog is very accurate otherwise. Ted: Thanks for the post about the CCR standard. A couple of minor corrections. In you section “What exactly is CCR?” I would say it this way:
The CCR standard is two basic things - it is a personal health data set, that is, content about a person such as diagnoses and medications, which resides in a fairly easy to read spreadsheet. An implementation guide, or IG, includes the spreadsheet and explains the “how to” of every element, most of which are optional and may or may not be included in a CCR file produced for an individual. The CCR standard is also an XML “schema,” which is programming code that describes precisely how each content element in the CCR should be arranged in XML, eXtensible Markup Language. The schema is a bit of XML technology that connects the CCR standard in a logical way to standards already used by other industries to move data (getting us away from the “health care is different” model). It also makes the content machine-readable.

The CCR standard is licensed by ASTM International, a non-profit. ASTM asks that companies who wish to use the CCR in their products or services pay a one time fee of $100 for the standard IG and schema, but after that they are free to use the CCR standard without any royalty or additional fees. Some additional components related to the CCR standard, such as the XSLT that transforms the .xml file to .html , making the content readable in a web browser, are open source licensed under the Apache GNU License.

I hope these minor changes make sense! The blog is very accurate otherwise.

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