Basic Health Data Standards

This course provides and orientation to the important data-related standards that enable interoperable health data interchange

Lectures:

a. Semantic Interoperability

1. Semantic interoperability – unsolved

2. Ambiguity in definitions

3. Limited reuse of data

b. Understanding Controlled Vocabularies

1. Understanding the use, purpose and connection between sets of controlled vocabularies

2. Identifying commonly controlled vocabularies in use today

c. Common Controlled Vocabularies

1. SNOMED

2. MEDCIN

3. MedDRA

4. Nursing Terminologies

5. MeSH

6. UMLS

d. Data Elements

1. Attributes of data elements

2. Master meta-dictionary

e. Data Structures

1. Building data structures

2. Templates and archetypes

f. Clinical Data Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Document (CCD), and Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standards

1. Pathway from unstructured text to structured data

Objectives:

Understand why it is necessary to use a common set of data elements with common names to be able to exchange and understand data from other places
Understand what is meant by semantic interoperability
Understand many of the sets of controlled vocabularies in use today – how they are used and who requires their use
Understand the use, purpose and interrelation among sets of controlled vocabularies in use today
Identify the more common controlled vocabularies in use today: ICD, CPT, DRG, NDC, RxNorm, and LOINC
Identify the more common controlled vocabularies in use today: SNOMED, MEDCIN, MedDRA, Nursing terminologies, MeSH and UMLS
Understand data elements; attributes of data elements
Understand contribution of master meta-dictionary of data elements to semantic interoperability
Explain how data structures can be built from basic data components
Explain how templates and archetypes facilitate networking and information interchange
Discuss Clinical Data Architecture (CDA), Continuity of Care Document (CCD), and Continuity of Care Record (CCR) Standards

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