electronic data interchange
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messaging
The use of structured electronic messages or email to transfer lab results, prescriptions, etc., from one computer system or setting to another.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
electronic data interchange
Informatics A standard transmission format for 'secure' bidirectional flow of information between health care providers and reimbursement agencies/entities and other health care providers. See Telemedicine.McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
e·lec·tron·ic da·ta in·ter·change
(EDI) (ĕ-lek-tron'ik dā'tă in'tĕr-chānj)In health care information services, provision of patients' data in a format useable to both sender and receiver.
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