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… Read more »
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… Read more »
Understanding ICD-10-CM – Part I – Origin Story
The Road to Precision Medicine – Part II – The First Pillar
In the previous post I asserted that to accomplish our objective of creating an application that can serve as a… Read more »
Informatics Lingo: Pre and Post Coordinated Terms
If you spend enough time interacting with clinical applications and terminologies you will hear terminologies described as pre-coordinated or post-coordinated. … Read more »
What is the Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) and HDDAccess?
Recently the VA and DOD announced that they have licensed 3Ms Healthcare Data Dictionary, or HDD, for open use as… Read more »
Clinical Terminologies in Healthcare – Part Two
The Terminology Uncertainty Principle I am a Star Trek fan (not a Trekkie… I don’t wear a tunic around the… Read more »
A Primer on the Vocabularies of Meaningful Use – Procedure Vocabularies
Its Just a Simple Procedure…Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set is maintained by the American… Read more »
A Primer on the Vocabularies of Meaningful Use – Problem Vocabularies
What seems to be the Problem?International Classification of Diseases (ICD) International Classification of Diseases is a publication from the World… Read more »
Problem Lists: The Cacophony of Concatenation
I have spent some time recently looking into terminologies that are used to represent problem lists. Specifically the terminologies in… Read more »