Category: Interoperability

Why normalizing your clinical and claims-based data into standard terminologies is critical in supporting forward-thinking initiatives such as big data analytics, population health management, and semantic interoperability among systems. …read more      

Terminology is core to everything in healthcare—from diagnoses to procedures to outcomes, healthcare IT systems represent clinical concepts in coded terminologies or free text. The lack of a common clinical vocabulary across disparate systems is a primary roadblock to the national efforts to increase interoperability, transparency, and collaboration within our healthcare system. …read more