The report proposes that health data be broken down into the smallest individual pieces that make sense to exchange or aggregate. These data elements would be accompanied by a mandatory “metadata tag” that describes the data, the patient’s preferences around the data and required security and privacy protections.
Universal exchange languages for metadata description, called “extensible mark-up languages” are widely used in other industry areas. http://www.govhealthit.com/newsitem.aspx?nid=75615 - _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
