Online Course

Nurs 737 - Nursing Informatics Concepts and Practice in System Adoption

Module 3: Standardized Terminology, Promoting Interoperability (PI) Programs, HIPAA

Standardized Terminology

Nursing care must be communicated with other clinicians and captured in the healthcare information systems. Standardized terminologies are developed to meet the need for valid, comparable data that can be used across healthcare information systems. This subsection will briefly overview the basic concepts and the current state of standardized terminologies in nursing.

Please click here to view the PowerPoint Presentation about the standardized terminologies used in nursing and other healthcare fields.

NI Terminology

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