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News Update: The Clinical Care Classification (CCC) nursing terminology has been accepted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael Leavitt as a named standard within the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) Interoperability Specification for Electronic Health Records, Biosurveillance and Consumer Empowerment as presented to a meeting of the American Health Information Community (AHIC), a federal advisory group on health information technology, on October 31, 2006. Read the full press release: PDF (13k) or RTF (10k)
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- Open Architecture
- Designed for computer-based systems - EHR,
CIS, & PHR - Tested and applicable in ALL healthcare settings
- Interoperable with ANSI HL7
- Integrated in SNOMED © CT and UMLS
- Atomic-Level Concepts
- Conforms to Cimino criteria for a standardized
terminology - Coded standardized framework for electronic
documentation, retrieval & analysis - Codes based on ICD structure for information
exchange promoting interoperability - Designed for determining care costs
- Recognized by the American Nurses Association
- Conforms to ISO Reference Terminology Model for Nursing
- Electronically links nursing diagnoses to interventions and outcomes
- Developed empirically from research of live patient care data