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Case Report Clinical Data Forms are the primary channel for capturing information in the healthcare and clinical domain. Forms also play a key role in information exchange and are critical to supporting interoperability in healthcare.

A form differs from a document , in that a document is used to capture information, while a form defines skip patterns, validation rules, the structure of the form is designed to capture skip patterns validation rules and other aspects required to capture or render information for a documentthe clinical data while the document takes that data and structures it in a meaningful way that reflects the clinical activity and the associated syntactical representation necessary to maintain the flow that clinical activity.

A document in this context is specifically a clinical document which represents information about a clinical activity. The document contains the specific information gained during that clinical activity and supports the broader definitions of a document. Documents can be transformed into human readable forms, and be transferred or transmitted for use across different systems.

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