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EHR Clinical Forms: Requirements

The caBIG® Clinical Information Suite is a form driven system for data entry by physicians, nursing staff, and ancillary providers. Changes in the health care landscape across the United States over the last several years has led to new requirements for data structure and semantics. These new requirements have led to the need to deal with "meaningful use" semantics in our form structures. One prominent requirement is the need for any EHR system to use the new semantics in order for providers using these systems to be paid for the care they provide to particular patients. Hence lack of adoption of these data standards could lead to diminished availability for cancer patient care if the physician market shrinks through financial attrition.

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