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A Clinical Data Definition represents semantically interoperable clinical data. While a fine abstract goal, what does it mean for the individual clinician on a day-to-day basis?

The industry is certainly keen to codify and structure patient data in such a way that it can be used for research, disease detection, cohort recruitment, epidemiology, and other areas. Without properly structure data, the cost and accuracy of a lot of data simply makes it unavailable for such purpose. So, while your grocery store can accurately predict what kinds of soup you will buy in August, healthcare still suffers with a sever lack of similar data.

Ignoring all of that, why would the individual clinician or group practice care about coded and structured data? Such data certainly provides more efficient and accurate billing and cost control.

TBD