[FWD: HHS release on international health care records standards]

["David RR Webber \(XML\)" <david@drrw.info>]

FYI, DW

"The way to be is to do" - Confucius (551-472 B.C.)

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Dated 26 April 2007 ...

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced
the United States will participate in an international effort to
encourage more rapid development and worldwide adoption of standard
clinical terminology for electronic health records.

The United States is one of nine charter members of the new
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation
(IHTSDO), which has acquired Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine
(SNOMED) Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) from the College of American
Pathologists (CAP). Other charter members are from Australia, Canada,
Denmark, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, and the
United Kingdom.  Membership is open to all countries.

http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/04/pr20070426a.html