WHO digital health packages for disseminating data standards and data use practices

Canadian Digital Elevation Data, Standards and Specifications

Best Practices for the Development and Use of XML Data Interchange Standards

The case for national health data standards.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) contains groundbreaking provisions to encourage the development of a national health information system through the establishment of standards. This paper compares statewide inpatient data systems to one standard--the Uniform Bill (UB)--to understand how standards have been used and how they can be improved. We recommend ch...

Disseminating Dynamic Web Data

An important issue in the dissemination of time-varying web data such as sports scores and stock prices is the maintenance of temporal coherency. In the case of servers adhering to the HTTP protocol, clients need to frequently pull the data based on the dynamics of the data and a user’s coherency requirements. In contrast, servers that possess push capability maintain state information pertaini...

Disseminating economic census data

This article describes the ways that data from the 1997 Economic Census will be reported, both in print and in electronic media. Particular attention is given to the impact of the new North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) on the design of census reports, and to its implications for the assembly of time series from Economic Censuses past and future. Data from the Economic Census ...