Using what kind of strategy will permit data exchange within each hospital and across health care networks or enterprises?
1. Integration
2. Syntactic interoperability
3. Semantic interoperability
4. Using a clinical data repository
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Rationale: Using integration strategies will permit data exchange within each hospital and across health care networks or enterprises. This will open up a realm of possibilities for new ways to chart data trends, such as by provider, by diagnosis, or by cost. It will also allow hospitals to find trends in financial and clinical data. Health care providers will be able to obtain improved information, making them better able to react to market changes and maintain a competitive edge.
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