The FDA is Asking for More Information on Application Forms — Here’s Why That’s Good for Innovation and Improving Health

To be most effective, electronic health records (EHRs) use a systematized and standardized nomenclature for the hundreds of thousands of clinical terms that characterize patient care. This helps to ensure consistency from EHR to EHR and allows these records to be usable from healthcare entity to health care entity, a concept known as interoperability. This nomenclature, used by both industry and the federal government, is called SNOMED CT.