title: Standards and the integrated electronic health care record.
abstract: The goal of creating an integrated electronic health care record is within our reach. It will depend chiefly on the creation and adoption of standards for health care data. This article explains why standards development is important, gives examples of the different types of standards relevant to health care, offers examples of data sets used in health care, and, finally, presents examples of standards development organizations that health care supervisors should be familiar with.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Information Management, School of Allied Health Sciences, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Bell
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D020408:Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000592:standards*; D012015:Reference Standards; D018511:Systems Integration; D014481:United States