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  2. DICOM - Wikipedia

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    HL7 and DICOM manage a joint Working Group to harmonize areas where the two standards overlap and address imaging integration in the electronic medical record. Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) is an industry sponsored non-profit organization that profiles the use of standards to address specific healthcare use cases. DICOM is ...

  3. Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission

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    EHNAC grew out of the 1993 Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) meeting, sponsored by the Network Architecture and Accreditation Technical Advisory Group. The healthcare transactions industry agreed there was a need for a self-governing body to develop standards for the industry, and the Association for Electronic Health Care Transactions (AFEHCT) championed the cause by sponsoring ...

  4. Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] All certified Electronic health records in the United States are required to export medical data using the C-CDA standard. [4] While the standard was developed primarily for the United States as the C-CDA incorporates references to terminologies and value set required by US regulation, it has also been used internationally.

  5. Picture archiving and communication system - Wikipedia

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    Hard copy replacement: PACS replaces hard-copy based means of managing medical images, such as film archives. With the decreasing price of digital storage, PACS provide a growing cost and space advantage over film archives in addition to the instant access to prior images at the same institution. Digital copies are referred to as Soft-copy.

  6. Health information management - Wikipedia

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    Health information management's standards history is dated back to the introduction of the American Health Information Management Association, founded in 1928 "when the American College of Surgeons established the Association of Record Librarians of North America (ARLNA) to 'elevate the standards of clinical records in hospitals and other medical institutions.'" [3]

  7. Clinical data standards - Wikipedia

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    Interoperability between disparate clinical information systems requires common data standards or mapping of every transaction. However common data standards alone will not provide interoperability, and the other requirements are identified in "How Standards will Support Interoperability" from the Faculty of Clinical Informatics [2] and "Interoperability is more than technology: The role of ...

  8. Medical record - Wikipedia

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    A medical record folder being pulled from the records. Because many consider the information in medical records to be sensitive private information covered by expectations of privacy, many ethical and legal issues are implicated in their maintenance, such as third-party access and appropriate storage and disposal. [5]

  9. Electronic health record - Wikipedia

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    Handwritten paper medical records may be poorly legible, which can contribute to medical errors. [14] Pre-printed forms, standardization of abbreviations and standards for penmanship were encouraged to improve the reliability of paper medical records. An example of possible medical errors is the administration of medication.