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A health-data connection must preserve meaning as well as fields
Two systems can exchange a message while still disagreeing about what a field means.
Health Data
Health information systems, identifiers and data exchange, including authorized access, record quality and usable handovers.
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Understand Health Data
Health data becomes useful when information can be interpreted by the right people in the right context. Here we cover records, identifiers, exchange standards, access and correction workflows. Particular attention goes to meaning: a delivered field still needs a clear unit, date, origin and relationship to the person or encounter it describes.
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Interoperable health records need identifiers, units and context
Health-data exchange is successful when the recipient can interpret and use the information appropriately.