By: Charlie Harp 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 need it to be?” I responded. “We were thinking five thousand bytes would do the...
By: Charlie Harp 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 good information. Having great providers, skilled administrators,...
By: Charlie Harp 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 be. A terminology that was designed for software tends to elegantly...
By: Charlie Harp 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 ICD-10. In this post I am going to spend some time...
By: Charlie Harp The ICD in ICD-10-CM stands for “international classification of diseases”, the “10” is the revision, and the “CM” stands for “Clinical Modification”. (It should be noted that there are other ICDs as well, ICD-O-3 is an oncology classification used by...
By: Charlie Harp 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 information and knowledge. In this...
