U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Enterprise Reference Terminology Strategic Overview
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چکیده
The Veterans Health Affairs (VHA) branch of the Department of Veterans Affairs has undertaken an Enterprise Reference Terminology (ERT). VHA, arguably the largest integrated healthcare provider in the United States, has completely computerized virtually all clinical transactions, including physician orders and documentation. The VA is now integrating its clinical records across hundreds of sites of care by means of a Health Data Repository (HDR) project. ERT has been designed to provide a terminology development environment, terminology services, and maintenance services for the clinical and business content in HDR and other VHA applications. Drug, laboratory observations, and clinical document title files have been developed, and the ERT will encompass all HDR domains by 2008. Commercial tools are used to host the VHA's ERT terminology development and server environments. We will select and adopt both open-source and licensable terminology systems to provide ERT content, as well as reuse existing VA-specific terminology content.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Studies in health technology and informatics
دوره 107 Pt 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004