Clinical Terminologies
Representing Disease Concepts in Health Information Systems
A Comparison of the ICD-10-CM and SNOMED CT Terminologies By Michael Stearns MD, CPC, CRC, CFPC Introduction The ability to share accurate and complete clinical information across disparate stakeholders has improved through more than three decades of sustained effort. However, progress continues to be constrained by competing clinical, regulatory, financial, and operational priorities, including the…
Read MoreNursing Workflows and the Importance of Data Quality
By Teresa Saxon, R.N. Introduction Healthcare data quality analysis has many layers of complexity ranging from discovery of anomalies to how they are repaired. In simplified terms, poor data quality can be characterized by missing, miscoded or misplaced data in a patient’s record. Data quality is especially important in the nursing field. Nurses interact with…
Read MoreHIMSS 2022: Today’s Big Topics in Healthcare
Today’s big topics in the HIMSS 2022 agenda include patient safety, patient education, the patient experience, burdens on clinicians, public health, wearables and emerging technologies. Since these are going to be discussion points at this year’s conference, the JPSys social media team decided to ask one of our Clinical Informatics Specialists to weigh in on the conversation.…
Read MoreHIMSS 2022: The Importance of Standards-Based Data Exchange
This year’s HIMSS conference will feature a number of sessions on data standardization and health information exchange. Before you go to HIMSS, we want to help you better understand what standards-based data exchange looks like and why it’s important for healthcare. It might give you some incentive to attend a session or two. We all agree that…
Read MoreJ P Systems Wins 120 M VA Terminology Services Support Recompete
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Clifton, VA – June 28, 2021, J P Systems, Inc., JPSys, received notification of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recompete contract award. This single award, Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for clinical terminology standards services has a ceiling of $120 million. The contract includes a base 5 year period from…
Read MoreThe Importance of a Nursing Data Framework
By Dr. Luann Whittenburg, RN, PMP, FHIMSS A Nursing Data Framework can give healthcare providers a way to garner business intelligence. They can save money and reduce risk by improving workflows, load leveling personnel schedules, and improving patient safety. With more than 4 million nurses in the U.S., nurses are the largest clinical segment of the U.S.…
Read MoreThe Terminology You Use to Describe Healthcare Data Matters
An Argument for Standardized Reference Terminologies One hundred and forty, 140 – that’s how many different ways there are to describe arterial hypertension, more frequently known as high blood pressure. It may seem small, but if 140 different hospitals use 140 different terms for arterial hypertension, suddenly, 140 hospitals can’t exchange native data with each other.…
Read MoreIntroduction to Interoperability 101
by Jackie Mulrooney, President, J P Systems, Inc. What is meant by the interoperability of clinical data? Interoperability (IOP) is a multifaceted IT architectural capability which harmoniously orchestrates the exchange of clinical data. In Healthcare IT (HIT), according to HIMSS: “interoperability is the ability of different information technology systems and software applications to communicate, exchange data, and…
Read MoreReduce Risk & Fiduciary Exposure using Electronic Data Exchange
The WHO reports patient harm as the 14th leading global disease burden, with 42.7 million adverse events occurring during hospitalizations. A 2018 scientific study revealed a 100% error rate in incoming Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) data, which is alarming. Are these errors critical, like missing life-threatening allergy data, or minor, such as empty fields…
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