Health Story: Integrating Narrative Notes and the EHR
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Vision, Mission & Goals

Our Vision:  Health Story members share the vision that all of the clinical information required for good patient care, administration, reporting and research will be readily available electronically, including information from narrative documents.

Our Mission:  To develop and promote information standards through HL7 that support the flow of information between narrative documents and electronic medical records.

The Health Story Project established the following five-year goals:

  • Establish awareness
  • Maintain strong coalition
  • Publish catalog of data standards through HL7
  • Increase market demand for standards
  • Earn national endorsement
  • Foster widespread adoption of standards
  • Declare success