Standards that have been developed for the EMR by a variety of oganizations

ASC X12 or ANSI ASCX12
ASC X12 (also known as ANSI ASC X12) is the official designation of the U.S. national standards body for the development and maintenance of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards. The group was f
ASTM International
The Continuity of Care Record (CCR) is a core data set of the most relevant administrative, demographic, and clinical information facts about a patient's healthcare, covering one or more healthcare en
HL7 EHR WorkGroup
Welcome to the HL7 Electronic Health Record (EHR) Work Group's Home Page. HL7 originally established an EHR special interest group (SIG) in 2001 to begin its efforts on EHR Systems (EHR-S) standards.
openEHR
openEHR is about enabling ICT to effectively support healthcare, medical research and related areas. Today ICT is used ubiquitously elsewhere, but is far from effective in Healthcare. The main problem