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A form differs from a document in that the structure of the form is designed to incorporate skip patterns, validation rules, and other aspects required to capture the clinical data while the document form 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 obtained 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.

The key forms capabilities include:

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