3M™ Healthcare Data Dictionary is a specialized database that:

• Allows you to translate and integrate healthcare data from independent, legacy computer systems
• Provides a road map to the content and structure of patient data
• Defines and translates data elements and healthcare concepts found in a computerized patient record
• Reduces ambiguity by including the variations in names or numbers healthcare professionals use for a clinical or administrative concept in any language

3M’s dictionary has rich content, a flexible data structure, and is built with standard healthcare data sources as well as selected, specific vocabularies. It provides coded, computable data that people can understand and applications can use in real-time.

Healthcare Data Dictionary (PDF 73.8 KB)

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