By: Charlie Harp Whether you have been following the buzz related to the ARRA meaningful use criteria or you are involved in clinical information exchange, you have likely run across the acronym LOINC recently. A significant chunk of my career has been spent in the...
By: Charlie Harp Note: We have updated this file to revise the extrapolated RXCUI STRs at the SBD, SCD level to incorporate the Tall man lettering. Special thanks to John Poikonen for his insistence, persistence and assistance! On the resources page, I have posted an...
By: Charlie Harp PLEASE NOTE: The Meaningful Use Final Rule was released on July 12 and the UNII is no longer listed as the standard for allergy terminology. In fact, there is NO standard listed for allergy interoperability. For the record, I do not think that the...
By: Charlie Harp Its Just a Simple Procedure… Current Procedure Terminology (CPT) The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set is maintained by the American Medical Association through the CPT Editorial Panel. The CPT code set accurately describes medical,...
By: Charlie Harp What seems to be the Problem? International Classification of Diseases (ICD) International Classification of Diseases is a publication from the World Health Organization (WHO) and it provides a number of vocabularies for expressing disease concepts....
By: Charlie Harp I recently had a request to create a post providing a primer on the vocabularies of meaningful use. Let’s start with a review of the vocabularies that are named in the meaningful use criteria described on pages 21 and 22 of the January...