Some healthcare organizations receive Federal initiative for using Electronic health record (EHR) and Meaningful Use just to name a few. Healthcare facilities strive to improve the effectiveness and consistency of data sharing with other healthcare facilities.
Health information technology currently have created the primary essentials necessary interoperability between IT systems. Healthcare facilities are currently aiming their focus on semantic interoperability — which is a way for IT systems to understand data that is allocated. Semantic interoperability allows health systems to standardizes medical languages with other systems. Data dictionary has become widely used by health system as a reliable source of medical languages.
A data dictionary or metadata is a collection of data telling what kind of information is gathered within the databank, the general makeup, form, and how the info is used. Data dictionary is a set of rules that the info in the system has to go by. Health organizations systems that have Information in the data base that abide by the same instructions -successfully attain semantic interoperability.
The data dictionary can run a directory of data which can include names, and definitions to be acquired in the system. Health organization’s data dictionaries must have the federal standards to assist with the health information exchange.
A effective data dictionary will increase the consistency and trustworthiness of an organization’s data, decrease superfluous, increase documentation and control, and make it easier to analyze data and use it to make evidence-based care decisions like those common in accountable care organizations.
Reference
http://blog.healthlanguage.com/what-is-a-data-dictionary-and-what-role-d...
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