Medical mapping tool ready for test drive

The National Library of Medicine wants health care organizations and vendors to test drive its new mapping tool that seeks to link a standard medical vocabulary to support applications for electronic health records, officials have announced. Standardized clinical terms, or data elements, are considered a necessity for broader use of digital medical records. The Obama administration currently is developing rulemaking for distributing more than $19 billion in payments to doctors and hospitals that buy and use digital record systems for patients.

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