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November 06, 2006
PDF/H
PDF/H: Press release, of a new PDF profile optimized for medical records in standard format: "The proposed new PDF/H (PDF-Healthcare) is a portable, secure, and universal healthcare data exchange container for Personal Health Records and Electronic Health Records. PDF/H is an ideal format for exchanging and protecting healthcare information because it can contain any combination of text, graphics, and images and it builds on the well-known and trusted PDF specification utilized to great advantage by business, government, and industry." PDF/H joins other PDF profiles for archiving, printing, engineering, and universal access... there's a workgroup-only site here. For good background info on the totality of the PDF ecology, see Wikipedia. Nearly all computers can use an HTML/JS runtime, and consumers rapidly adopt new abilities with Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Reader powers a lot of the institutional world... the Adobe Engagement Platform uses all three runtime systems, and each helps pull the others along, gives us a wider and more stable base.
Update: A quick readable introduction to how PDF has tailored itself for legal workers, too.
Posted by JohnDowdell at November 6, 2006 11:30 AM
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How can you join the workgroup?
[jd sez: That I do not know... if they're open to membership then I imagine they'd have an access point on their site... but if it's an industry consortium then it may be pre-selected invitations to healthcare IT groups... I don't have additional info yet either.]
Posted by: Jack Guinan at November 8, 2006 11:09 AM