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Blog articles written by the 3M HDD team on terminologies, healthcare interoperability, medical informatics and other topics that may be of interest.

Implementing a FHIR terminology server

  • Monday, 07 May 2018 13:56
The Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard specifies how healthcare data can be exchanged, with the goal of improving interoperability.
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AMIA 2017 Learning Showcase: Terminology-Enabled Clinical Natural Language Processing for Unstructured Information Extraction

The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) organizes a Learning Showcase during the Annual Symposium. Separate from the scientific program, the Learning Showcase allows exhibitors to present the informatics aspects or topics that relate to their products or services, avoiding a marketing or sales focus. In this context, I gave a talk on how terminologies can be used to help clinical natural language processing (NLP) during the latest AMIA Annual Symposium in November 2017, and would like to share the salient points here.
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What to expect at the HL7 working group meeting: A first timer’s experience

Recently, I attended the Health Level 7 (HL7) Working Group Meeting in New Orleans for the first time.
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Opioid Crisis: Transitioning Care Through a Paradigm Shift

The opioid crisis has far reaching and long lasting effects, and the problem is scaling up exponentially.
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How I learned HL7 FHIR as a clinician without losing my mind

The Health Level 7 (HL7) FHIR is a new interoperability standard for exchanging healthcare data.
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Advancing informatics: Experiencing AMIA for the first time

This November I attended the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Conference for the first time.
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Report from the FHIR Connectathon at the HL7: September 2017 Working Group Meeting

  • Thursday, 26 October 2017 03:00
About a year ago, I wrote a blog about the convergence of two HL7 standards: Clinical Information Modeling Initiative (CIMI) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). I attended the HL7 […]
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Reflections from a laboratory scientist: Terminology’s role in U.S. healthcare paradigm shift

The American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) held its 69th Annual Scientific Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo in San Diego in August, in collaboration with the Canadian Society of Clinical […]
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Quality Payment Program proposed changes for 2018

Staying current with the CMS Quality Payment Program is essential for providers. My previous blog—provided an overview of the program; then, on June 20, 2017, CMS announced changes that represent […]
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Progress on standardizing nutrition data in the EHR: An interview

Nutrition is integral to optimal health and the practice of nutrition care is woven throughout the systems that treat and facilitate health care.
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