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2016
Informatics Pioneers
40 years of EMR work
Indiana Network for Patient Care
Most comprehensive and longest tenured Health Information
Exchange (HIE) in USA
Informatics Pioneers
40 years of EMR work
Indiana Network for Patient Care
A Humongous Database
200+ source systems
16+ million patients
5.6 billion results
164 million text reports
more than 1 million transactions/day
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data
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DATA
PROBLEMS
Problem 1
Variation abounds
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Problem 2
Youre never done
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Adapted/expanded from
danielvreeman.com/loinc-essentials
Disclosure
Im the author of the book.
This isnt likely to be a NYT Best Seller.
Im hoping to cover hosting/development costs.
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Vreeman DJ, Finnell JT, Overhage JM. A rationale for parsimonious laboratory term mapping by frequency. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007 Oct 11:771-5. PMID: 18693941.
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Vreeman DJ. Keeping up with source system changes in a local health information infrastructure: running to stand still. Stud Health Technol Inform.
2007;129:775-779. PMID: 17911822.
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Sharing is caring
Sharing is Caring
Standards will get better if users help
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Sharing is Caring
Standards will get better if users help
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We built this concept into LOINC license & culture from the beginning.
Sharing is Caring
Standards will get better if users help
improve them through new term requests.
We built this concept into LOINC license & culture from the beginning.
Dixon BE, Hook J, Vreeman DJ. Learning From the Crowd in Terminology Mapping: The LOINC Experience. Lab Med. 2015 Spring;46(2):168-74. PMID: 25918199.
Vreeman DJ, Hook J, Dixon BE. Learning from the crowd while mapping to LOINC. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015 Jul 29. pii: ocv098. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocv098.
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