Conclusions

This brief synopsis of the role the data interchange transactions play in the administrative aspects of oral health provides a glimpse of the means by which other aspects of resource management in the dental practice can be linked to the recording of patient care observations in the EOHR.  It illustrates the structure of transaction messages and how such structural syntax can lead modularly to the construction of other resource management transactions that may be relevant to the dental practice and to the structure of the EOHR.  Hence, the effort in complying with the US HIPAA legislation will help set the stage for resource management support of oral health patient care functions and public health dentistry implications as noted in the 1991 (1997 revised) Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on the Electronic Health (Computer-based Patient) Record.⁴  This original view has been reiterated in the more recent IOM 2001 report⁵ and in the report⁶ of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) on building the information infrastructure to support the original 1991 IOM vision.  Additionally, the enterprise information architecture⁷ for all types of oral health practice situations is currently being documented and will appear in the form of ADA standards usable by the general dentist in achieving an optimal practice enterprise information architecture.

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