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430 G.R. Kim and S.T. Rosenbloom<br />

Cod<strong>in</strong>g for service documentation and reimbursement:<br />

� Medical diagnosis: International Classification of Diseases (ICD9 – CM,<br />

ICD-10)<br />

� Psychiatric diagnosis: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders<br />

(DSM IV)<br />

� Evaluation, management and procedures: Common Procedural Term<strong>in</strong>ology<br />

(CPT)<br />

� Documentation and study of processes and outcomes for quality improvement:<br />

Nurs<strong>in</strong>g Intervention and Outcomes Classifications (NIC, NOC)<br />

� North American Nurs<strong>in</strong>g Diagnosis Association (NANDA)<br />

� Order<strong>in</strong>g and track<strong>in</strong>g items used <strong>in</strong> medical work<br />

� Drug classes, specific drugs, their forms, amounts, and packaged doses<br />

(RxNorm, Multum, FirstDataBank, Micromedex)<br />

Laboratory and imag<strong>in</strong>g test names, specifications, result units and normal<br />

ranges (Logical observations <strong>in</strong>dicators names and codes (LOINC))<br />

Medical equipment (Food and Drug Adm<strong>in</strong>istration Product Code Classification)<br />

Index<strong>in</strong>g, retrieval of and l<strong>in</strong>kage to published medical knowledge<br />

� Medical Subject Head<strong>in</strong>gs (MeSH) for medical journal articles<br />

� CINAHL Subject Head<strong>in</strong>gs for nurs<strong>in</strong>g journal articles<br />

� Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms for psychology journal articles<br />

Locat<strong>in</strong>g patient-specific data<br />

� Descriptive data: SNOMED CT<br />

� <strong>Health</strong> Level Seven<br />

Natural language process<strong>in</strong>g (and applications)<br />

� The Unified Medical Language System (and MetaMap)<br />

� The Medical Entities Dictionary (and MEDLEE)<br />

� SNOMED CT (and L<strong>in</strong>gologix)<br />

Cl<strong>in</strong>ical documentation<br />

�<br />

® 3 SNOMED CT (used <strong>in</strong> Kaiser Permanente’s <strong>Health</strong>Connect EHR, among<br />

others)<br />

�<br />

® Medc<strong>in</strong> (used <strong>in</strong> the Department of Defense’s Armed Forces <strong>Health</strong><br />

Longitud<strong>in</strong>al Technology Application (AHLTA) EHR4 )<br />

� Medical Entities Dictionary (used at New York Presbyterian Hospital<br />

The central importance of term<strong>in</strong>ologies <strong>in</strong> US health care was re<strong>in</strong>forced <strong>in</strong> 2005<br />

with the development of the Federal Consolidated <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Informatics</strong> (CHI) <strong>in</strong>itiative<br />

(a part of the eGovernment Bus<strong>in</strong>ess portfolio) which adopted a set of exist<strong>in</strong>g<br />

term<strong>in</strong>ologies (and identified gaps) for use <strong>in</strong> electronic exchange of cl<strong>in</strong>ical<br />

<strong>in</strong>formation with<strong>in</strong> specified health doma<strong>in</strong>s by the US Federal health enterprise,<br />

its clients and partner entities (see Table 33.1). 6<br />

33.2.2 Implementations<br />

Technical requirements for well-constructed term<strong>in</strong>ologies <strong>in</strong> biomedic<strong>in</strong>e have<br />

been articulated. 8 These requirements <strong>in</strong>clude formal def<strong>in</strong>itions, sufficient scope<br />

5 )

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