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3M™ Healthcare Data Dictionary

3M Healthcare Data Dictionary is a controlled vocabulary server. It allows systems to translate and integrate patient data into a standard, meaningful language that can be used regardless of where it originated. Then caregivers and administrators can begin to share and aggregate the information for clinical decision-making and quality analysis.

3M Healthcare Data Dictionary supports electronic medical records and the exchange of health data in the following ways:

  • Accepts data from diverse sources, including legacy information systems and personal health records.
  • Captures the context of data in time, space and relationship with other data.
  • Standardizes and normalizes data in a consistent form so that it is comparable and transferable among systems for patient portals, care providers, and state regional health entities.
  • Clearly and unambiguously defines healthcare terms, providing unique identifiers and meanings for unique concepts.
  • Complies with all security, privacy and interoperability requirements for patient release of information, auditable events and access management.
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Healthcare Data Dictionary (PDF 73.8 KB)



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