The Sequoia Project, AHIMA Aims to Enhance Data Usability Efforts
- In an effort to build better semantic interoperability of health information, the Sequoia Project and the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) have created Data Usability Taking Root, an initiative meant to ease the implementation and flow of data. Despite the high availability of data, its use and application often contain...
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