INDIANAPOLIS — I may say soda and you may say pop, but what if the hospital lab you go to today says BMP and the lab you visit next week calls the same test SMA7? Your physician knows that these are the same tests, but the computer systems they use don't automatically know. How can we develop a national healthcare information network, or even regional healthcare information exchanges, if we don't have a lingua franca?

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