title: Records standards: making sure everything fits perfectly.
abstract: Many organizations are working on setting standards for virtually every facet of electronic records, from medical vocabulary to clinical electronic data interchange. Standards for records ease the exchange of potentially life-saving information and facilitate research on what treatments work best. But some argue that the industry won't make any real progress in this area until the market for computer-based patient records software matures.
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authors.lastname: Siwicki
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D016494:Computer Security; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D011381:Programming Languages; D014481:United States; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled