The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced Tuesday that stakeholders can now submit proposals for new data elements in the United States Core Data for ...

Impact of Prediagnosis Risk of Major Depressive Disorder and Health-Related Quality of Life on Treatment Choice for Stage II-III Rectal Cancer We found a total of 452 publications, of which 46 were ...

The Department of Health and Human Services continues to issue guidance furthering the nationwide interoperability of health IT with the release of new data classes and elements for electronic ...

Electronic health records (EHRs) that use structured data elements are documenting patient information using controlled vocabulary rather than narrative text. The historic lack of structured data and ...

The fundamental data structure in a data processing system. Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is defined by ...

Key-value, document-oriented, column family, graph, relational… Today we seem to have as many kinds of databases as there are kinds of data. While this may make choosing a database harder, it makes ...