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ICD-10: Why the delay is necessary

The conversion to ICD-10 is "expensive, arduous, disruptive and of limited direct clinical benefit," according to the authors of an article published this week in the journal Health Affairs. They

Kaiser donates Convergent Medical Terminology dictionary

Kaiser Permanente is donating its Convergent Medical Terminology dictionary of more than 75,000 clinical terms and concepts in an effort to help other U.S. healthcare providers adopt and use EMRs.

SPOTLIGHT: Semantic interoperability

Attention EMR developers and integrators: Interoperability comes in three flavors. There's technical interoperability, computable semantic interoperability and process interoperability. The semantic