Understanding the meaningful use vocabulary standards.

摘要

The stage 1 criteria focus on "electronically capturing health information in a coded format, using that information to track key clinical conditions, communicating that information for care coordination purposes, and initiating the reporting of clinical quality measures and public health information."In order to do this, EHRs must be capable of providing semantic interoperability. Semantic interoperability refers to "The ability of computer systems to interchange data and to interpret and use the data according to its meaning, rather than just its surface form."