This standard provides a technical specification to extract, process, format and transmit essential patients’ demographic and dental/medical encounters and clinical data between one dental information system to another dental or medical health information system supporting key authentication, data bundling, syntactic and semantic information exchange. Included is a list of pertinent data fields and data bundles from the dental record about patients that health information system vendors can reference to internally map and extract information from their proprietary dental information system’s data schema.