Pew Urges Health IT Agency to Expand Data Elements, Standards for Better Sharing of Electronic Records

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Pew Urges Health IT Agency to Expand Data Elements Standards

The Pew Charitable Trusts sent a letter Sept. 23 to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, urging the agency to include additional data elements and standards in its Interoperability Standards Advisory, a guide that technology developers can use to help improve the sharing of patients’ medical information between electronic health record systems.

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