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EUCLIDES has been supported by the Commission of the European Communities (CEC DG XIII - F) in the framework of the AIM (Advanced Informatics in Medicine) programme.
The goal of the EUCLIDES project has been to provide a much-needed European standard for clinical laboratory data exchange between independent and heterogeneous Medical Information Systems.
EUCLIDES will be an open standard i.e. freely available to all, and unbiased towards any manufacturer’s hardware or software. By convergence with other emerging standards, it could develop into a world standard. It could also be extended to encompass other specialties in medicine.
EUCLIDES addresses the data exchange problem in a three-pronged approach: 1. the transfer-mechanism, 2. the message syntax, and 3. the medical coding systems used within the message. Moreover, the EUCLIDES system offers through its ‘bridge’ a user-friendly software solution for interfacing with existing local systems at both the sender’s and receiver’s ends.
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de Moor, G.J.E. (1991). EUCLIDES : A European clinical laboratory data exchange standard (AIM-project : A 1033). In: Adlassnig, KP., Grabner, G., Bengtsson, S., Hansen, R. (eds) Medical Informatics Europe 1991. Lecture Notes in Medical Informatics, vol 45. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93503-9_156
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