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Understanding Vocabularies. Wait! What did you say?
Any data system the semantic meaning of data is as important as the strucutre of the data. In HealthVault we expose a very structured data set in form of various data types and the semantic meaning of...
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In my last article in the vocabulary category, I described the need for semantically enabled data and how different categories of health data have different standard vocabulary / ontology associated...
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Understanding SNOMED CT
I have previously posted about Understanding Health Ontologies and Standards. In this post I’ll focus on SNOMED-CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms). SNOMED-CT is the most...
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Understanding CCR
Update: Fixed typos, added links to related tools and articles, updated the example. CCR or Continuity of Care Record is a standard meant to ease the exchange of clinical information with a relatively...
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Understanding Components of CCD
Connectivity of Care Document (CCD) is a collaborative standard driven by HL7 & ASTM for exchanging summary format clinical information. For ease of understanding one can think of CCD standard...
View ArticleUnderstanding International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD)
This a next installment of the Understanding terminologies series. I’ll try to keep this post short, give a general overview of International Statistical classification of Disease (ICD), talk a little...
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