Three new standards are available for review and comment from the American Dental Association’s Standards Program by March 22.
• Proposed ANSI/ADA Standard No. 216, Dentistry — Endodontic Irrigants and Medicaments: This document classifies endodontic irrigants and medicaments used temporarily — less than 30 days — in orthograde endodontic procedures. It specifies the requirements and test methods to be used to determine conformity and includes requirements for the information and instructions accompanying each package.
• Proposed ANSI/ADA Standard No. 1084, Dentistry — Reference Core Data Set for Communication Among Dental and Other Health Information Systems: This document provides the definitions of the elements that constitute the reference core data set of the common electronic dental record, regardless of where the data set is stored. It provides a list of pertinent data fields from the electronic dental record about the patient’s reference core data set that health information system vendors can reference to internally map and extract information from their proprietary dental information system’s data schema.
Source: Proposed ADA standards available for review by March 22 / ADA News