title: CLAIM (CLinical Accounting InforMation)--an XML-based data exchange standard for connecting electronic medical record systems to patient accounting systems.
abstract: With the evolving and diverse electronic medical record (EMR) systems, there appears to be an ever greater need to link EMR systems and patient accounting systems with a standardized data exchange format. To this end, the CLinical Accounting InforMation (CLAIM) data exchange standard was developed. CLAIM is subordinate to the Medical Markup Language (MML) standard, which allows the exchange of medical data among different medical institutions. CLAIM uses eXtensible Markup Language (XML) as a meta-language. The current version, 2.1, inherited the basic structure of MML 2.x and contains two modules including information related to registration, appointment, procedure and charging. CLAIM 2.1 was implemented successfully in Japan in 2001. Consequently, it was confirmed that CLAIM could be used as an effective data exchange format between EMR systems and patient accounting systems.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Medicine, Kumamoto University, Honjo 1-1-1, Kumamoto, Japan. guo@fc.kuh.kumamoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Jinqiu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: Koji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tanaka
authors.forename: Junzo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Muneou
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Kiwamu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Daimon
authors.forename: Toshiaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Yusei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakashima
authors.forename: Kenji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Araki
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yoshihara
mesh_terms: D000067:Accounts Payable and Receivable; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting; D007564:Japan; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration