Information standards in botanical databases - the limits to data interchange

Data Interchange Standards in Healthcare IT

The following article on HL7 Version 3 will give readers a glimpse into the significant differences between “what came before”—that is, HL7 Version 2.x—and “what today and the future will bring,” which is the HL7 Version 3 family of data interchange specifications. The difference between V2.x and V3 is significant, and it exists because the various stakeholders in the HL7 development process be...

Archetypes and Standards for Medical Information Interchange

The extensive usage of mobile devices for vital signs collection and the use of ordinary communication networks for data transportation enabled many new opportunities but opened many new problems. In the area of medical information collection, transportation, presentation, and analysis there are a lot of standards. Many of them contradict each other. The standardization in the area of data tran...

Global clinical data interchange standards are here!

The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) has succeeded in developing global clinical data interchange standards that are ready for implementation. The various CDISC models are identified and explained in this article as well as how these models work together. In addition to developing the CDISC standards, CDISC is involved actively in many collaborative projects with other org...

A Critique of the Information Resources of Disaster Databases in the World

Comparison of Bibliographic Databases in Retrieving Information on Telemedicine

Background & Aims: Some of the main questions which can be of importance for those researchers who intend to perform a systematic review in a field of science are: ‘What databases should I use for my review?’; ‘Do all these databases have the same value?’; and ‘Which sourcesretrieved the highest of relevant references?’. The main aim of this work was the identification of the best database for ...