“An emerging technical standard could improve the delivery of health information to patients — and help electronic health records comply with “meaningful use” requirements under Human Services Department rules, according to a new white paper from health executives.
The Health Level 7 “Infobutton” global decision-support standard has been circulating in draft form since 2007 and is currently under consideration by the American National Standards Institute. The health executives who wrote the Jan. 25 white paper would like to see the standard broadly adopted.”
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Alice Lipowicz, Federal Computer Week, 27 January 2010
