As we known, the goals of standardization include achieving comparability, compatibility and interoperability between independent systems, ensure data compatibility and reduce duplication of effort and redundancies.
Without standard (ICD), health information communication between different systems will need a large number of interfaces. It will waste of time, resources and effort that we have to spend in terms of health care service in different department of the hospital and also in referral system, reimbursement system, disease surveillance system, and also for further research purpose.
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