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Challenges
- Universal adoption requires standards for information sharing
- LTC requirements have historically been ignored
- Existing standards did not allow type of information unique to LTC to be included
- Census only transactions
- Facility specific information
- Lack of appropriate standards drive development of proprietary applications
- Proprietary applications increase cost and reduce adoption
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