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Yu S et al, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011
Clinical Archetypes provide a means for health professionals to design what should be communicated as part of an Electronic Health Record (EHR). An ever-growing number of archetype definitions follow this health information modelling approach, and this international archetype resource will eventually cover a large number of clinical concepts. On the other hand, Clinical Terminology systems that can be referenced by archetypes also have a wide coverage over many types of health-care information.
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20 December 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Tag(s): Archetypes, modelling, Ontology, SNOMED, Terminology
Richard Chirgwin, The Register
“CSIRO has announced that it is to supply software to Australia’s National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA) to support the transition to Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): SNOMED, Transition
Daniel Essin, Physicians Practice
“It means that codes, any codes, do not intrinsically mean anything. Because the number of possible thoughts is infinite and the number of codes is small, no code can even come close to precisely standing for any specific thought. The developers of the original International Classification of Disease (ICD) understood this. They had a specific objective in mind and it was not to assign a specific code to every possible medical diagnosis or procedure.
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29 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Tag(s): Coding, ICD-10, SNOMED
Changing to ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure coding is a nail-biter for I.T. staff, health information managers, billing departments, and pretty much anyone who has to document anything about patient care.
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28 November 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: United States | Tag(s): Coding, ICD-10, SNOMED, Standards
Bakhshi-Raiez F et al, International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2011
Objective
To evaluate the usability of a large compositional interface terminology based on SNOMED CT and the terminology application for registration of the reasons for intensive care admission in a Patient Data Management System.
Design
Observational study with user-based usability evaluations before and 3 months after the system was implemented and routinely used.
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25 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | Country: Netherlands | Tag(s): Evaluation, Intensive care, SNOMED, Terminology, Usability
Bob Mitchell, Cardiovascular Business
“Managing information in the 21st Century and whether to code or not to code was the keynote address presented Oct. 4 at the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) conference by T. Bedirhan Ustun, MD, PhD, team coordinator of classification, terminology and standards in the Department of Health statistics at the World Health Organization (WHO).
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5 October 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Coding, ICD-10, ICD-11, SNOMED
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“Also remember that SNOMED-CT is also meant to be the terminology underpinning the PCEHR – but it is now on hold until the end of the year apparently. I suspect that will need an implementation plan as well!
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5 September 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): SNOMED, Terminology
ePractice EU
“Better patient safety through electronic communication between clinicians has been secured by the adoption of a common clinical language across all healthcare settings and organisations in England.
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31 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: UK | Tag(s): Patient Safety, SNOMED
Sari AK et al, Knowledge-Based Systems, 2011
The global effort in the standardization of electronic health records has driven the need for a model to allow medical practitioners to interact with the newly standardized medical information system by focusing on the actual medical concepts/processes rather than the underlying data representations. An archetype has been introduced as a model that represents functional health concepts or processes such as admission record, which enables capturing all information relevant to the processes transparently to the users. However, it is necessary to ensure that the archetypes capture accurately all information relevant to the archetype concepts. Therefore, a semantic backbone is required for each of the archetype.
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21 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Archetypes, Clinical Information Systems, Ontology, Semantic, SNOMED
Mary Mosquera, Government Health IT
“The Health IT Standards Committee has endorsed a single set of vocabulary standards and a single guide for putting them in place for each area of quality reporting measures, an accomplishment that some individuals and groups have been working on for 10 years. The domains include medications, labs and allergies.
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18 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): LOINC, SNOMED, Standards, Terminology
e-Health Insider Acute
“The Information Standards Board for Health and Social Care has officially approved the SNOMED Clinical Terms healthcare terminology as a ‘fundamental standard’.
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18 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tag(s): GP, SNOMED, Standards
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Graham Grieve, a major participant in HL7 standards writes HL7 needs a fresh look because V3 has failed.
I agree with much of what he says, in particular his distinction between clinical interop and semantic interop.
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17 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): HL7, Interoperability, SNOMED
Ruby Raley, AxWay
“Gartner’s Andrew White blogged recently about the importance of managing information in health care, and what struck me is a point he made about the practicality of exchange languages.
The health care industry is warming rapidly to the idea of using technology for exchanging records and improving clinical outcomes. But I think the industry needs to slow down a bit.
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11 August 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): emr, Health Information Exchange, ICD-10, Identification, Security, SNOMED
Ken Terry, InformationWeek
“Using a Beacon grant provided by the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT, the Mayo Clinic is building what may be the next generation of health information exchanges (HIE) with a group of healthcare providers in southeast Minnesota. In this real-world demonstration, Mayo will apply the computer tools it is developing through a federal SHARP grant to create new methods of mining electronic health record (EHR) data.
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21 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): CCD, Data Mining, Health Information Exchange, HL7, NLP, SNOMED
David More, Australian Health Information Technology
“I suggest anyone who is interested in the area read the whole paper carefully and then e-mail NEHTA (terminologies@nehta.gov.au) asking them just when the work recommended here will be undertaken and finalised. A decision to deploy SNOMED CT was made by NEHTA about 4 years ago and the very limited use so far also suggests there are some significant implementation problems.
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18 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: Australia | EHR: EHR, EHR Australia | Tag(s): SNOMED, Terminology
Wes Rishel, Gartner
“Another interpretation might be that IHTSDO would map any given version of SNOMED to a specific version of ICD-11 and distribute ICD-11 along with SNOMED. Careful attention to the exact version of ICD-11 that was in use could permit using the SNOMED ontologies to manipulate data expressed in ICD-11.
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18 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): ICD-11, SNOMED, Standards
Rector AL et al, J Am Med Inform Assoc, 18(4)
Objectives
(a) To determine the extent and range of errors and issues in the Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine – Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) hierarchies as they affect two practical projects. (b) To determine the origin of issues raised and propose methods to address them.
Methods
The hierarchies for concepts in the Core Problem List Subset published by the Unified Medical Language System were examined for their appropriateness in two applications. Anomalies were traced to their source to determine whether they were simple local errors, systematic inferences propagated by SNOMED’s classification process, or the result of problems with SNOMED’s schemas. Conclusions were confirmed by showing that altering the root cause and reclassifying had the intended effects, and not others.
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11 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: Science | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): Knowledge Management, modelling, Ontology, SNOMED, Terminology
Diana Manos, Healthcare IT News
“Health Level Seven (HL7) and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced Thursday that they have expanded collaborative efforts.
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8 July 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tag(s): HL7, Interoperability, Semantic, SNOMED, Standards
Business Wire
“The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has formally launched MedlinePlus Connect. This free service allows health organizations and health information technology (HIT) providers to link patient portals and electronic health record (EHR) systems to MedlinePlus.gov, a trusted source of authoritative, up-to-date health information for patients, families and health care providers. MedlinePlus brings together information from NIH, other federal agencies, and reputable health information providers. MedlinePlus covers a wide range of health conditions and wellness issues, and includes key resources to inform patients about their health.
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21 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tag(s): Health Information, LOINC, SNOMED, Standards
Pablo Pazos Gutiérrez, Informática Médica y Estándares
“El título de este post es un poco contradictorio con el trabajo que hago a diario. Mi trabajo consiste en el modelado e integración de distintos sistemas de información, y detectar oportunidades de aplicación de estándares internacionales.
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7 June 2011 | No Comments »
Categories: News | EHR: EHR | Tag(s): HL7, IHE, openEHR, SNOMED, Standards
