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Welcome to the Detailed Clinical Models blog!

Detailed Clinical Models is a growing effort to bring together the collective wisdom and requirements of the health care informatics community for the ability to create clinical content which reflects the clinical (biomedical) reality in a fashion which is semantically inter-operable between domains, users, applications and applications.

Detailed Clinical Models (DCM) are explicitly intended to support multiple uses of the model and of the information.

1. Clinical documentation. This is at the level and expressiveness needed for continuity of care, communication between (human) health care providers, consultation reports, billing, medical record keeping regulations (including those required by the US Drug Enforcement Agency DEA for prescribing controlled substances), medico-legal requirements, and, in general, those requirements which currently are met by narrative (written, dictated) paper health record systems.
   
2. Decision support systems.
3. Public health reporting.
4. Quality of care metrics. This also includes meeting the needs automating an accurate data set needed to meet pay-for-performance incentives and for providing sufficient detail that allow meaningful comparisons based on patient complexity and acuity.
   
5. Clinical research. This includes requirements for regulated clinical trials and disease registries.
   
6. Personalized medicine.
7. Translational bioinformatics.
8. Other secondary uses of information.