ADA News: The ADA worked with Health Level Seven International to publish the dental consolidated clinical data architecture implementation guide and the dental Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources implementation guide, ADA News reported. The guides, which used the ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1084: Reference Core Data Set for Communication Among Dental and Other Health Information Systems as a foundation, were developed to facilitate greater sharing of patient health information between dental and medical providers.

"The release of the HL7 implementation guides continues the conversation to standardize how health record systems share dental data," said William Báez, D.D.S., chair of the ADA Standards Committee on Dental Informatics Working Group 11.9. "I hope the vendor community, the owners of dental and medical EHRs, view the guides as an invitation to optimize the communication of encounter information across these platforms."