NABIDH aims to at providing necessary NABIDH standards for implementing and managing Health Information Exchange among DHA licensed healthcare providers in the Emirate of Dubai. These standards are used to standardize nomenclatures and code sets used to describe clinical problems and procedures, medications and allergies. All health care facilities have to be in compliance with NABIDH Published Standards.
In order to accomplish this objective, the following are the interoperability and data exchange standards defined under NABIDH:
CLINICAL DATA AND CODING STANDARDS
| Standard | Name | Publisher | Standard For | HCF Required/Optional |
| ICD 10-CM (2012) | International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification | CMS & HCHS | Diagnosis/Disease Coding | Required |
| CPT 4 (2012) | Current Procedural Terminology | AMA | Procedures – medical, surgical and diagnostic services | Required |
| HCPCS Level II (2012) | Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System Level II | CMS & AMA | Supplies, Disposable and Consumables | Required |
| CDT (2011-2012) | Current Dental Terminology | ADA | Dental procedures and related services | Required |
| UNS (2018) | Universal Numbering System (Dental) | ADA | Observations to a specific tooth | Required |
| DDC | Dubai Drug Code | DHA | Drugs and related (medications) | Required |
| LOINC | Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes | RI | Laboratory and Clinical Observations | Optional |
| SNOMEDCT (2013) | Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms | IHSTDO | Comprehensive clinical granularity, used to capture problem list, allergies, diagnosis, procedures etc | Optional |
| RxNorm | “normalized” notations for clinical drugs | NLM | Clinical drugs and drug delivery devices | Optional |
| IR-DRG | International Refined Diagnosis Related Groups | CMS | Hospital coding/inpatient hospital payment | Optional |
| CVX | Clinical Vaccines Administered | IISSB | The type of product used in an immunization | Optional |