As healthcare costs continue to rise, health providers around the country feel a sharp sense of urgency in deploying information technology to lower costs, reduce medical errors, enhance outcomes, and spur efficiency in an industry known for legendary inefficiency.
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White Papers
Using a Medical Data Dictionary to Comply with Vocabulary Standards and Exchange Clinical Data
What is needed is an integrated, structured terminology system that can mediate the differences between
vocabularies and code sets and easily be incorporated into
existing clinical information systems. A 3M Whitepaper