Chapter 10
Interoperability Standards and Vocabularies
The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Andrew Tanenbaum
The last chapter presents the interoperability challenges facing the electronic health record (EHR) in general and the medications system specifically. How are the actors, the disparate components presented in the previous chapters of this book, supposed to play with others in the proverbial healthcare information technology sandbox? The short answer is by adhering to standards and vocabularies. ...
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