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May 16, 2012 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time 3M Opens Access to the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under Agreement with U.S. Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs 3M technology removes barriers to interoperability for all U.S. healthcare providers SALT LAKE CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M Health Information Systems announced today it will open access to the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary under an agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary will provide the core technology to enable semantic interoperability for the joint DoD/VA integrated Electronic Health Record (iEHR), making it possible to share medical knowledge and secure patient data between care providers at U.S. military treatment facilities located around...

Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2012 Apr 25. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2012.42. [Epub ahead of print] Electronic Medical Records as a Tool in Clinical Pharmacology: Opportunities and Challenges. Roden DM, Xu H, Denny JC, Wilke RA. Source 1] Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA [2] Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Abstract The development and increasing sophistication of electronic medical record (EMR) systems hold the promise of not only improving patient care but also providing unprecedented opportunities for discovery in the fields of basic, translational, and implementation sciences. Clinical pharmacology research in the EMR environment has only recently started to become a reality, with EMRs becoming increasingly populated, methods to mine drug response and other phenotypes becoming more sophisticated, and links being established with DNA repositories. PMID: 22534870 [PubMed - as supplied b...