Healthcare Data Quality Digest
Can Appropriate Prescribing Practices Curb the Opioid Crisis?
According to a report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the misuse and abuse of opioids is associated with a staggering number of emergency department visits, hospitalizations, overdose deaths, and many other adverse outcomes. One organization estimates the economic impact from 2001 to 2017 to be more than $1 ...
Value in Healthcare
It is well known that the United States is at the top of the leaderboard in rankings of health expenditures as a percentage of GDP. Although not new, discussions about value in ...
A Vision for Better Health and Health Care
Most companies are formed with an aspirational vision and a plan to work toward that vision. Components of that plan might include setting strategic priorities, goals, and tactical actions that ...
The Dawn of Artificial Clinical Awareness
Over the past few years, there has been a lot of talk about concepts like precision medicine, population health, personal health records and other technological concepts. The hope is that ...
Architecture of Substance Intolerance
One of the common features of most clinical applications is the ability to catalog a list of substances that may cause an issue for the patient. This is typically labeled ...
Quantifying Healthcare
In healthcare, patient instance data is the focus of what we interact with, move around, analyze, and report on. If you look at the patterns of data we deal with, ...
What is the Natural Language of Healthcare?
Five years ago Clinical Architecture had a client that called us and asked the following question about our mapping engine, “How large can a term be?” “How big do you ...
Information Management #3 – The Information Ecosystem
It all starts with an epiphany. This is the moment that the leadership of a healthcare enterprise realizes that the key to efficiency, risk mitigation, quality and better outcomes is ...
Information Management #2 – Bad Data
In this post I am going to focus on “bad data”, the forms that it takes and how we can cope with it today and in the future. First of ...
Information Management #1 – Digital Empathy
If you are reading this blog three things are likely true. (1) you are somehow involved in healthcare IT (2) you can be classified somewhere on the information-nerd spectrum and ...
Understanding ICD-10-CM – Part III – A Terminology by the Book
When you are trying to implement a terminology in a software application, the intent of the terminology can have a significant impact on how easy or difficult that process will ...
Understanding ICD-10-CM – Part II – What’s In A Code?
To understand a terminology it is important to understand its history, coding scheme, content model, the intended use cases and editorial policy. In my previous post, I reviewed the origin of ...
Understanding ICD-10-CM – Part I – Origin Story
The origin of the ICD goes back to the late 1700s. French physician and botanist, François Boissier de Sauvages de Lacroix, published his treatise, "Nosologia Methodica" in 1763. Sauvages, as ...
The Road to Precision Medicine – Part VII – The Road Not Taken
On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered a memorable speech at Rice University in Houston, Texas. It is sometimes referred to as the “We choose to go to ...
The Road to Precision Medicine – Part VI – Orchestrated Intelligence
A true clinical platform starts with a foundation of two primary supporting pillars. The first is the ability to accurately represent medical information and the second is the ability to share both patient specific ...
The Road to Precision Medicine – Part V – Sharing Knowledge
In an earlier post we asserted that in order to support the provider in a significant way, a clinical platform will need to share information. We called this capability the second ...
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