Vocabulary Coding System Exercise
In this exercise, students will perform an in-depth theoretical and practical exploration of clinical data formats, vocabularies, and transmission mechanisms. Understanding clinical data is a vital knowledge set for CDSS, when you must be able to define inputs and outputs for your system, process the data, and produce usable outcomes that can be indigested by other clinical applications in a single healthcare organization or across multiple entities. Using information provided in the textbooks, lectures, and web sites belonging to each data type governing organization, address the following:
1. SNOMED ontology.
2. LOINC ontology.
3. RxNorm ontology.
4. ICD-10 medical coding and documentation vocabulary.
5. CPT medical coding and documentation vocabulary.
6. HL7 clinical interface programming language.
7. In your own words and using literature, how are these ontologies, vocabularies, and language interrelated, and what role do they play in construction and operation of CDSS?
8. Revisit clinical study you selected as a practical exercise for Week 2 EBM paper, from the ClinicalTrials.gov web site. Analyze the study in detail in terms of the data types you would need, if you attempted to build a CDSS for it. In order to succeed with this part of the assignment, you need to review inclusion criteria, exclusion criteria, eligibility, and measures utilized in the study. Based on this examination, determine what kinds of clinical data would be utilized as input, during processing, and as output from your CDSS. Once you determined the types of data, use your research of the core data types performed for parts 1 through 5 of this assignment to determine what ontologies, vocabularies, etc. you may need. Explain and justify your answer. You can be brief, but must explain your selection(s). Please begin by identifying your study, i.e. its title.
**Attached is the EBM paper referenced in the assignment**
The following coverage guidelines apply to items 1 through 6:
· Overview… What organization produces or created it? Any info on organization? What is the most current revision? What new features have been added? Other introductory material as you deem appropriate.
· Why is it important and how is it used?
· Classification or language structure.
· Limitations.