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Finding A Common Language In Health Care Information Technology

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Medical News Today
Dec. 27, 2007

A study by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute, the Indiana University School of Medicine and the Indiana University School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, looked at hospital laboratories from five hospital systems in the Indiana Network for Patient Care and found that even in the same metropolitan area -- Indianapolis and its suburbs -- a variety of names were assigned to the same test - for example: complete blood count, hemogram and CBC.

Read the entire article here: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/91934.php

Learn more about the IU School of Medicine at: http://www.medicine.iu.edu/

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