Article Excerpt: Several federal regulations enacted over the past few years specify technical standards required in electronic health record vendor products. Some standards, such as C-CDA, focus on the exchange of clinical summaries and notes, while others, such as SNOMED CT, focus on encoding clinical information with specialized clinical vocabularies. The goal of these technical standards is to improve provider and patient access to health information, and improve patient safety, care provisions and clinical outcomes. While it is more common to know what standards are required, there is little knowledge and transparency about how to implement and measure these standards.
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Article Source: HIMSS