Imaging methods like x-ray, computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are indispensable in health care, but they have drawbacks.
I’ve had diverse, interesting, and fulfilling experiences in my nursing career, but when I started out, I did not ever think that today I would be working with clinical terminology to improve clinical documentation.
On Jan. 18, the long-awaited Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act in 2016, was released by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) and its Recognized Coordinating Entity (RCE), the Sequoia Project.
Our clinical terminology team’s background in nursing, pharmacy, radiology, laboratory and other clinical areas gives us insight into how health care systems are burdened with the sheer volume of data being collected on COVID-19 patients.
