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© Dr. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, (www.cs.dal.ca/~sraza)2
We need standards when there is high diversity between
Systems
Terminology
Record formats
We need standards in healthcare because
Healthcare is distributed
Multiple institutions, departments, and professionals
Healthcare systems are heterogeneous
Lack of co-ordination between different elements
Lot of communication happens between different elements
Message cannot be ambiguous, else we get medical errors
Encoding of patient data that is usable by multiple parties
Correct representation of clinical information
Representation of medical knowledge
Correct identification of healthcare components
Physicians, nurses, machines, drugs
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© Dr. Syed Sibte Raza Abidi, (www.cs.dal.ca/~sraza)3
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