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Daniel J. Vreeman, PT, DPT, MScAssociate Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine
Associate Director for Terminology Services, Regenstrief Institute, Inc
2015 CC-BY-NC
Challenges and successes in managing local healthcare terminologies in a
community-wide HIE
Terminology Services to Reduce Avoidable CT Imaging F2F Meeting | 2015 10 14
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Overview
1. We want fluid, comprehensive health data everywhere
2. We love standards
3. We love our local terminology
4. Five lessons weve learned
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Informatics Pioneers40 years of EMR work
Indiana Network for Patient Care
Regenstrief is the Data Switzerland
Most comprehensive and longest tenured Health Information Exchange (HIE) in USA
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Informatics Pioneers40 years of EMR work
Indiana Network for Patient Care
Regenstrief is the Data Switzerland
Most comprehensive and longest tenured Health Information Exchange (HIE) in USA
Crash Test Dummies
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Patients typically move faster and further than their health information
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Finnell JT, Overhage JM, Grannis SJ. All Health Care is Not Local: An Evaluation of the Distribution of Emergency Department Care Delivered in Indiana. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011;:409-416.
41% of ED visits are for patients with
data at another institution
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Finnell JT, Overhage JM, Grannis SJ. All Health Care is Not Local: An Evaluation of the Distribution of Emergency Department Care Delivered in Indiana. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011;:409-416.
Connectedness among Indiana EDs
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Nearly every ED in Indiana shares patients with
every other ED in the state
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A Humongous Database200+ source systems
16+ million patients
5.6 billion results
164 million text reports
more than 1 million transactions/day
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Fundamental challenges: Local systems have different ways of identifying the same concept.
Things that look alike arent the same.
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Standards let us (re)use the data for everything
Clinical care, public health reporting, quality management, clinical and epidemiological research, etc
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Data Standards UsGetting the data when and where it is needed
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Long History
ASTM 1238-88
HL7 (O&O, V3, etc)
LOINC
UCUM
Collaborator with other SDOs HL7, IHTSDO, RSNA, SCO
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You might be thinkingLOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNORM, etc are all pretty mature now
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Only crazy people would manage their own terminology!
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LOINC has Pretty Good Coverage
Vreeman DJ, McDonald CJ. A comparison of Intelligent Mapper and document similarity scores for mapping local radiology terms to LOINC. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006;809-813. PMID: 17238453.
Vreeman DJ and McDonald CJ. Automated mapping of local radiology terms to LOINC. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;769-773. PMID: 16779144.
Early studies found 91-92% content type coverage for a typical hospital radiology system.
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LOINC has Pretty Good Coverage
Vreeman DJ, McDonald CJ. A comparison of Intelligent Mapper and document similarity scores for mapping local radiology terms to LOINC. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006;809-813. PMID: 17238453.
Vreeman DJ and McDonald CJ. Automated mapping of local radiology terms to LOINC. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;769-773. PMID: 16779144.
Theres a fair bit of highly localized content in most systems.
Early studies found 91-92% content type coverage for a typical hospital radiology system.
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The Regenstrief Dictionary
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Indiana Network for Patient Care
St. Vincent
St. Francis
IU Health
Wishard Health
Community
IUMG
Public Health
Referral Labs, RxHub, etc
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Indiana Network for Patient Care
St. Vincent
St. Francis
IU Health
Wishard Health
Community
IUMG
Public Health
Global Patient Index Concept
Dictionary
Referral Labs, RxHub, etc
Global Provider Index
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Regenstrief DictionaryCore interface terminology
Progenitor of LOINC
More than 43,000 terms
Questions, answers, and units
HIE services and CPOE at one institution
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Term AttributesID 26189
Universal Name Liver CT WO&W Contr
Description CT without and with contrast of the liver.
Units
Type (data type) 7
Code (class) x
Source METHODIST RADIOLOGY
Synonyms Liver CT WWO Contr; Liver CT WOW Contr; CT Liver WWO Contr
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MappingsMapped to standard vocabularies (ICD, LOINC, SNOMED CT, etc)
All source codes from local institutions are mapped to Dictionary terms
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Pros and ConsWeighing the benefits and costs of maintaining a local master dictionary
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Pros1. Ultimate control 2. Single code system for
applications across all content domains
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Pros1. Ultimate control 2. Single code system for
applications across all content domains
Hugely valuable
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Cons1. Expensive
2. Cant easily use tools from others
3. Others cant use our innovation applications as easily
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Lessons Learned Along the Way
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Lesson 1.Life is messy.
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HL7 messages can be syntactically correct but semantically bastardized.
Everything is an OBX.
Everything in the NTE.
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HL7 messages can be syntactically correct but semantically bastardized.
Everything is an OBX.
Everything in the NTE.
68 different terms for Pathologist Name
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Radiology term names are more descriptive than lab tests, but
Local nomenclature is still the wild wild west.
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Variations in kinds of specificity laterality, views, contrast, etc
Many systems invent multiple codes for the same test to distinguish facilities
ZXR1234 STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINTS MIN 3V
CXR1234 STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINTS MIN 3 V
VXR1234 STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINTS MIN 3VWS
XRW1234 STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINTS MIN 3 VIphoto via mikemartelli
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Lesson 2.Terminology management is hard.
A short history of modernist painting (part 2) by Mark Tansey
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It might not be brain surgery, but it requires both expertise and effort that is easy to underestimate.
Baorto DM, Cimino JJ, Parvin CA, Kahn MG. Combining laboratory data sets from multiple institutions using the logical observation identifier names and codes (LOINC). Int J Med Inform.1998 Jul;51(1):29-37.
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A journey, not a destination.
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Vreeman DJ, Stark M, Tomashefski GL, Phillips DR, Dexter PR. Embracing change in a health information exchange. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 6:768-72.
For radiology terms, in 2 years after go live we saw 71% as many new local terms appear as what we started with.
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Meanwhile, weve always struggled to find adequate funding for this work.
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Lesson 3.Clear descriptions are king.
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Humans need to choose terms accurately
Clear, concise text descriptions for each term are essential.
Descriptions are King
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Humans need to choose terms accurately
Clear, concise text descriptions for each term are essential.
Descriptions are King
We didnt always understand this.
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Distinguishes this concept from others
Describes what the heck it is
Good Descriptions
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Distinguishes this concept from others
Describes what the heck it is
Good Descriptions
What does it measure? What is it used for? What is the clinical relevance? How is the test performed?
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Lesson 4.Work smarter, not harder.
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Not every term has equal value
Pareto Principle
Vreeman DJ, Finnell JT, Overhage JM. A rationale for parsimonious laboratory term mapping by frequency. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:771-5. PubMed PMID: 18693941.
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Not every term has equal value
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Vreeman DJ, Finnell JT, Overhage JM. A rationale for parsimonious laboratory term mapping by frequency. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:771-5. PubMed PMID: 18693941.
In INPC, 80 codes made 80% of lab
test volume
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Ongoing exploration of how/what can be automated.
Bootstrap mappings for similar names from same institution.
Vreeman DJ. Keeping up with source system changes in a local health information infrastructure: running to stand still. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2007;129:775-779. PMID: 17911822.
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Ongoing exploration of how/what can be automated.
Bootstrap mappings for similar names from same institution.
In INPC, 46% of new radiology terms were exact dupes of existing names!
Vreeman DJ. Keeping up with source system changes in a local health information infrastructure: running to stand still. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2007;129:775-779. PMID: 17911822.
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Lesson 5.Standards that get used get better.
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Sharing is CaringStandards will get better if users help improve them through new term requests.
Most local vocabulary work is done in isolation at each institution and not shared. Even among users of the same vendor.
Fidahussein M, Vreeman DJ. A corpus-based approach for automated LOINC mapping. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jan 1;21(1):64-72. PMID: 23676247.
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Sharing is CaringStandards will get better if users help improve them through new term requests.
Most local vocabulary work is done in isolation at each institution and not shared. Even among users of the same vendor.
We built this concept into LOINC license & culture from the beginning.
Fidahussein M, Vreeman DJ. A corpus-based approach for automated LOINC mapping. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jan 1;21(1):64-72. PMID: 23676247.
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Sharing is CaringStandards will get better if users help improve them through new term requests.
Most local vocabulary work is done in isolation at each institution and not shared. Even among users of the same vendor.
We built this concept into LOINC license & culture from the beginning.
On the mapping front, see https://loinc.org/community/mappingsFidahussein M, Vreeman DJ. A corpus-based approach for automated LOINC mapping. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2014 Jan 1;21(1):64-72. PMID: 23676247.
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Were trying to find harmony using local terms and standards together
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We love local terms! We love standards!
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