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HHS announces first set of uniform standards for the electronic health information exchange
On March 21, 2003 announced the first set of uniform standards for the electronic exchange of clinical health information to be adopted across the federal government.
The LOINC committee and the Regenstrief Institute are pleased to inform
you that the United States Departments of Health and Human Services
(HHS), Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (VA) on March 21, 2003
announced the first set of uniform standards for the electronic
exchange of clinical health information to be adopted across the
federal government. As part of this, all federal agencies that deal
with health care data will adopt laboratory Logical Observation
Identifier Name Codes (LOINC) to standardize the electronic exchange of
clinical laboratory results.
For the complete text of the News Release, please visit the Health and
Human Services web site.
Related information can also be found at the E-Gov web site.
