The Continuity of Care Document (CCD) is an electronic document exchange standard for sharing patient summary information that includes the most needed pertinent information about the current and past patients’ health status. Analyze the 1) purpose of the CCD document, 2) its common components, 3) its role in patients’ safety and healthcare quality assurance (be […]

Locate one of each federal-, state- and county-level healthcare database (except NLM). Analyze what type of data it contains and how it differs. Who owns and maintains it? Who are its users and for what purpose do they use it? Are the desired data easily processed according to the entered requirements? Evaluate the special features […]

The National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library and a leader in research in computational health informatics. It plays a pivotal role in translating biomedical research into practice National Library of Medicine (NLM) | National Institutes of Health (NIH)). Analyze the types of research data NLM contains. How could the data in […]

The Electronic Health Record (EHR) is called Longitudinal Health Record or Womb to Tomb health record. Discuss why it is called so. How does it differ from the paper-based medical record with respect to longevity? Do the retention requirements for both vary? If so, in which way(s) and why? Which components of the health records […]