EHR / EMR Case Studies & White Papers
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Strengthening Data Security From End To End
4/13/2016
2015 ushered in an explosion of many high-profile security breaches, leaving millions of health records exposed and costing exorbitant amounts in time, money and reputation. One in three Americans, in fact, experienced breaches of their healthcare records last year, with large-scale hacks representing 98 percent of data compromises. Most notably, last year’s cyberattack on Anthem exposed nearly 79 million records, and one at Premera Blue Cross affected 11 million individuals. Both were the result of phishing attacks. The publicity around these events has propelled healthcare to the forefront of IT security discussions, especially as it relates to the protection of personal patient data and what can be done to better protect it.
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Understanding The Health Language SNOMED CT® To ICD-10 Maps
3/30/2016
As specified by Meaningful Use Stage 2, EHR certification requires problem list entries to have SNOMED CT encoding. Since October 1, 2015, diagnoses must be coded in ICD-10-CM for billing. Personnel and systems now convert problem list entries in SNOMED CT to billing diagnoses in ICD-10-CM. Sophisticated SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM mapping is required to allow this task to be done efficiently and accurately.
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Terminology, Governance, Interoperability: Meeting The Toughest Challenges Of Healthcare IT
3/30/2016
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.
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Meaningful Use Is Not The Finish Line
3/30/2016
Improved information exchange, reimbursement, and patient care analytics require diligent enterprise terminology management.
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Meaningful Use And Terminology Compliance: Healthcare IT Vendor Special Report
3/30/2016
Healthcare IT vendors are under increasing pressure to implement solutions that address complex vocabulary requirements in the Meaningful Use criteria. Health Language® is uniquely positioned to deliver advanced terminology management tools that help vendors manage, update, and distribute content sets and mappings to their clients. Since 2000, Health Language has provided terminology solutions to thousands of end users through dozens of leading HIT vendors.
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Mapping CPT To LOINC Codes For Accurate Quality Reporting
3/30/2016
Increasingly, payers are relying on laboratory data to support quality and reporting initiatives, analytics, and population health strategies. For instance, the HEDIS ® and CMS Stars ratings rely on LOINC ® , the standard for codifying lab tests, within the underlying quality measures. If lab results aren’t accurately represented within the measures, this could directly impact your HEDIS scores and Stars ratings.
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Managing Value Sets: The Building Blocks for Your Analytic Initiatives
3/30/2016
Managing groups of codes is required for constructing quality measures, defining population cohorts, building decision support rules, and real-time care alerts.
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Data Normalization: The Foundation Of Forward-Thinking Initiatives
3/30/2016
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.
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Data Normalization - Common Use Cases And Terminology Domain Challenges
3/30/2016
The rapid evolution of health IT systems has resulted in significant interoperability problems that stem from the presence of numerous local and standardized clinical terminologies.
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Addressing The Documentation Challenge For Clinicians
3/30/2016
Clinicians should consider deploying a Workflow Enhancing Search solution that ensures problems, procedures, and diagnoses are properly documented and mapped to standards. This approach not only improves the quality of clinical documentation, but also increases clinician productivity and satisfaction–all critical goals when promoting the adoption of standards such as SNOMED CT and ICD-10.