ASTM Int'l, AIIM Publish Health Care Best Practices Guide - AIIM/ASTM BP-01
March 24, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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ASTM International and AIIM published AIIM/ASTM BP-01-2008 - Best Practices Guide - PDF Healthcare.
This document describes a proposed, voluntary, industry-wide reference tool and guideline to describe the features and functionality of the Portable Document Format (PDF) for the health care industry.
It is designed to facilitate a means by which health care information is captured, exchanged, preserved and protected so that participants within the health care system can use the PDF specification as the electronic container of the information, according to ASTM International.
AIIM/ASTM BP-01-2008 was developed to promote and accelerate the adoption of a digital health care record model using eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based standards.
With the introduction of health care industry legal and regulatory requirements that affect the patient and health care provider, the adoption of the PDF Healthcare Best Practices Guide will be driven by the need for usability, portability, simplicity and availability of health care information, according to ASTM International.
The guide was created by ASTM Committee E31 on Healthcare Informatics.
Source: ASTM International.