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33 The Case for a <strong>Pediatric</strong> Term<strong>in</strong>ology 435<br />

33.6 Conclusion<br />

Term<strong>in</strong>ologies are an essential part of the US health care and health <strong>in</strong>formation<br />

technology <strong>in</strong>frastructures. There is currently a need establish an agenda to extend<br />

currently available and adopted term<strong>in</strong>ologies to represent pediatric knowledge<br />

with<strong>in</strong> cl<strong>in</strong>ical workflows to improve safety and documentation of work. This effort<br />

will require the coord<strong>in</strong>ation of pediatric cl<strong>in</strong>icians and <strong>in</strong>formaticians familiar with<br />

the term<strong>in</strong>ology needs of pediatric workflows.<br />

33.7 Additional Topics<br />

33.7.1 Messag<strong>in</strong>g Standards<br />

In addition to term<strong>in</strong>ologies, the Consolidated <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Informatics</strong> <strong>in</strong>itiative specifies<br />

four messag<strong>in</strong>g standards for use <strong>in</strong> eGovernment health related transactions<br />

(Table 33.3).<br />

Messag<strong>in</strong>g standards are related to but differ from term<strong>in</strong>ologies <strong>in</strong> that they<br />

specify the electronic structure of health <strong>in</strong>formation, that is, the way it is packaged<br />

for transmission, exchange, management, and <strong>in</strong>tegration, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g specifications<br />

for hardware, software, language, and security requirements for encod<strong>in</strong>g and<br />

decod<strong>in</strong>g:<br />

Text and numeric healthcare <strong>in</strong>formation (<strong>Health</strong> Level Seven) 28<br />

Imag<strong>in</strong>g data: Digital Imag<strong>in</strong>g and Communications <strong>in</strong> Medic<strong>in</strong>e (DICOM) 29<br />

Electronic prescription (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs<br />

(NCPDP) SCRIPT) 30<br />

33.7.2 Natural Language Process<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Cl<strong>in</strong>ical term<strong>in</strong>ologies may be used for structured entry of <strong>in</strong>formation by humans<br />

(such as diagnostic and procedural cod<strong>in</strong>g to describe cl<strong>in</strong>ical encounters for bill<strong>in</strong>g)<br />

or for automated extraction of concepts from free text (natural language process<strong>in</strong>g<br />

or NLP) for summarization from pathology reports, 31 patient summaries, 32 journal<br />

Table 33.3 Consolidated <strong>Health</strong> <strong>Informatics</strong> messag<strong>in</strong>g doma<strong>in</strong>s and standards<br />

Doma<strong>in</strong> Standard<br />

Imag<strong>in</strong>g Digital Imag<strong>in</strong>g and Communications <strong>in</strong> Medic<strong>in</strong>e (DICOM)<br />

Medical devices Institute of Electrical and Electronics Eng<strong>in</strong>eers 1073 (IEEE 1073)<br />

Pharmacy National Council for Prescription Drug Programs (NCPDP) SCRIPT<br />

Cl<strong>in</strong>ical <strong>Health</strong> Level Seven (HL7)

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