PDF/ H - Best Practice Introduction
The migration of medical records from paper to digital format would benefit from the availability of an easy-to-adopt document encapsulation standard that meets a minimum level of healthcare industry requirements for portability, security and the exchange of information. It is our belief that PDF meets these requirements today.PDF is a digital format for representing information that is independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system used to create it and of the output device on which it is to be displayed or printed. The independent nature of PDF facilitates the process of creating, managing, securing, collecting and exchanging digital content on diverse platforms and devices.
Adobe Systems Incorporated publishes the PDF Specification which has enabled PDF to become a defacto standard for information exchange among major corporations, government agencies, and educational institutions and today is being used to replace paper-based workflows for the electronic exchange of information and will continue to do so at a rapid pace.
Because of its adoption and acceptance PDF is an ideal format for capturing healthcare information that can contain any combination of text, graphics and images.
