... population health, track disease and make improvements in public health. “Knowledge is Power” and just as the Bills of Mortality provided a way of spreading important information to the masses, healthcare ...
The Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) was established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 1983. HCPCS used to stand for HCFA Common Procedure Coding System when CMS ...
Terminologies - critical but often deferred in FHIR application development
The Health Level 7 (HL7) Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard is getting widespread support and gathering ...
... driving interoperability and advancing healthcare IT. HL7 did a great job of providing resources and keynote speakers from within the informatics community. The keynote discussions were robust and mostly ...
... myself trying to find another neurologist in the same healthcare system, just so they would have total access to the encounter data, especially since the facial numbness persisted at the time of discharge ...
... of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to provide an “on-ramp” to nationwide interoperability for healthcare data.
Previously, in “TEFCA: A beginning for nationwide ...
I recently had cause to wonder about the progress we’re making on the path to interoperability through “the woods” of healthcareinformation exchange (HIE).
I recently had cause to wonder about ...
... with high implementation costs for limited interoperability. In contrast, TEFCA aims to provide nationwide interoperability with substantially lower costs by allowing healthcare organizations easy access ...
... data interoperability. With the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) team, Pam has helped our customers, ranging from independent and reference laboratories, to hospitals and clinics big and small, to national ...
The LOINC Document Ontology was developed to identify, characterize, and organize documents exchanged between healthcare systems.
The LOINC® Document Ontology was developed to identify, characterize, ...
... around the country. As an example, one of these companies might cover trauma at a hospital in Wisconsin with radiologists based in Florida.
Teleradiology has its issues:
Healthcare industry has little ...
... to find solutions for this pandemic. I recently participated in Utah’s Healthcare IT Day as an advocacy committee member of the Utah chapter of the Health Information Management Systems Society (UHIMSS). ...
... record (Fitbit or app on your mobile device) and your healthcare provider, or between nursing staff on an acute care unit and the nutrition department, there is no standardized way to share this information. ...
... first time. HL7 is a widely adopted, international healthcare messaging standard, established through consensus among standards developers from multiple organizations. Some of my 3M Heathcare Data Dictionary ...
... to be processed. Furthermore, large reference terminologies such as SNOMED CT contain many homonyms that lead to reduced precision.
As a result, terminology management applications, such as the 3M Healthcare ...
The Health Level 7 (HL7) FHIR is a new interoperability standard for exchanging healthcare data.
The Health Level 7 (HL7) FHIR is a new interoperability standard for exchanging healthcare data. HL7 ...
... standards, such as the Health Level 7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR), to pass data and context/situational information from the EHR to the CDS and to accept recommendations from the ...
By now, you may have come across sex and gender being treated as two separate concepts, which sometimes results in confusion and overlap in how they are used to encode data in healthcare, especially if ...
Government healthcare initiatives are mandating a value based payment model. There are multiple quality measures required by clinical reporting programs such as Meaningful Use (MU), Physician Quality ...
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 […] ...