OHIE: Terminology Services

Legacy terminology-services
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Hi All,

Since tomorrows OpenHIE - Terminology Service Community call was
canceled we would like to try and get some feedback on some draft definitions/statements via email. Please reply to this email with comments.

Also, reminder the
next OHIE-Terminology Service Community call will be held on April 24th at 9:00am EDTvia Google Hangout. Please send Google Account addresses to Jamie at
jt48@regesntrief.org for an invite.

Draft Definitions/Statements

Reference Terminology – A Reference Terminology is a formal terminology, usually created and
maintained by a sanctioned Standards Development Organization (SDO), that can be used as the basis for semantic interoperability of information drawn from different data source systems. AKA “exchange terminology”.

Interface Terminology – An Interface Terminology is a terminology, or simply a set of Terms,
used by a clinical application to describe a domain of knowledge. AKA “source terminology”. Interface terminologies can be used to present “surface” lexical forms to an end-user application such as an EMR and are often the forms exported in data exchange messages.
An Interface Terminology may support “mappings” or relationships to Reference Terminologies.

Terminology Service – A Terminology Service is a networked component of an HIE: that centralizes
terminology knowledge (e.g. interface and reference terminologies, mappings, etc.) for the HIE and provides terminology services to other HIE applications

The
Mission of the Terminology Services Community is to promote and support the effective exchange (interoperability) and analysis (comparison and aggregation) of clinical information among components of the HIE. Our efforts include the documentation of
principles, processes, interfaces and tools that support the mission.

Jamie Thomas |Health Informatics Project Coordinator

Regenstrief Institute, Inc. |ph: 317.423.5670 | Skype: jamie.thomas5670|
jt48@regenstrief.org

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Hi All,

Just a reminder we are looking for feedback on the attached draft definitions/statements.

-Jamie

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Thomas, Jamie jt48@regenstrief.org wrote:

Hi All,

Since tomorrows OpenHIE - Terminology Service Community call was
canceled we would like to try and get some feedback on some draft definitions/statements via email. Please reply to this email with comments.

Also, reminder the
next OHIE-Terminology Service Community call will be held on April 24th at 9:00am EDTvia Google Hangout. Please send Google Account addresses to Jamie at
jt48@regesntrief.org for an invite.

Draft Definitions/Statements

Reference Terminology – A Reference Terminology is a formal terminology, usually created and
maintained by a sanctioned Standards Development Organization (SDO), that can be used as the basis for semantic interoperability of information drawn from different data source systems. AKA “exchange terminology”.

Interface Terminology – An Interface Terminology is a terminology, or simply a set of Terms,
used by a clinical application to describe a domain of knowledge. AKA “source terminology”. Interface terminologies can be used to present “surface” lexical forms to an end-user application such as an EMR and are often the forms exported in data exchange messages.
An Interface Terminology may support “mappings” or relationships to Reference Terminologies.

Terminology Service – A Terminology Service is a networked component of an HIE: that centralizes
terminology knowledge (e.g. interface and reference terminologies, mappings, etc.) for the HIE and provides terminology services to other HIE applications

The
Mission of the Terminology Services Community is to promote and support the effective exchange (interoperability) and analysis (comparison and aggregation) of clinical information among components of the HIE. Our efforts include the documentation of
principles, processes, interfaces and tools that support the mission.

Jamie Thomas |Health Informatics Project Coordinator

Regenstrief Institute, Inc. |ph: 317.423.5670 | Skype: jamie.thomas5670|
jt48@regenstrief.org

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These definitions look on point to me!

-Paul

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jamie Thomas jamiethomas5670@gmail.com wrote:

Hi All,

Just a reminder we are looking for feedback on the attached draft definitions/statements.

-Jamie

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Thomas, Jamie jt48@regenstrief.org wrote:

Hi All,

Since tomorrows OpenHIE - Terminology Service Community call was
canceled we would like to try and get some feedback on some draft definitions/statements via email. Please reply to this email with comments.

Also, reminder the
next OHIE-Terminology Service Community call will be held on April 24th at 9:00am EDTvia Google Hangout. Please send Google Account addresses to Jamie at
jt48@regesntrief.org for an invite.

Draft Definitions/Statements

Reference Terminology – A Reference Terminology is a formal terminology, usually created and
maintained by a sanctioned Standards Development Organization (SDO), that can be used as the basis for semantic interoperability of information drawn from different data source systems. AKA “exchange terminology”.

Interface Terminology – An Interface Terminology is a terminology, or simply a set of Terms,
used by a clinical application to describe a domain of knowledge. AKA “source terminology”. Interface terminologies can be used to present “surface” lexical forms to an end-user application such as an EMR and are often the forms exported in data exchange messages.
An Interface Terminology may support “mappings” or relationships to Reference Terminologies.

Terminology Service – A Terminology Service is a networked component of an HIE: that centralizes
terminology knowledge (e.g. interface and reference terminologies, mappings, etc.) for the HIE and provides terminology services to other HIE applications

The
Mission of the Terminology Services Community is to promote and support the effective exchange (interoperability) and analysis (comparison and aggregation) of clinical information among components of the HIE. Our efforts include the documentation of
principles, processes, interfaces and tools that support the mission.

Jamie Thomas |Health Informatics Project Coordinator

Regenstrief Institute, Inc. |ph: 317.423.5670 | Skype: jamie.thomas5670|
jt48@regenstrief.org

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Please see my edited version below. Mostly agreed.

I think we might want to draw up several different diagrams of how this can work. I picture is with a thousand words. I can try to mock up something in Visio unless someone has something else.

Andy

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On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Thomas, Jamie jt48@regenstrief.org wrote:

Hi All,

Since tomorrows OpenHIE - Terminology Service Community call was
canceled we would like to try and get some feedback on some draft definitions/statements via email. Please reply to this email with comments.

Also, reminder the
next OHIE-Terminology Service Community call will be held on April 24th at 9:00am EDTvia Google Hangout. Please send Google Account addresses to Jamie at
jt48@regesntrief.org for an invite.

Draft Definitions/Statements

Reference Terminology – A Reference Terminology is a formal terminology, usually created and
maintained by a sanctioned Standards Development Organization (SDO), that can be used as the basis for semantic interoperability of information drawn from different data source systems. AKA “exchange terminology”. It usually includes a unique identifier and a textual description. It may be concept-based (usually) or lexical-based. It may include relationships between reference terms such as a hierarchy.

Interface Terminology – An Interface Terminology is a terminology, or simply a set of Terms,
used by a clinical application to describe a domain of knowledge. These are terms or phrases which users want to see in the application. AKA “source terminology”. These may include unique codes and descriptions, or just be terms. Interface terminologies can be used to present “surface” lexical forms to an end-user application such as an EHR, and may be the form exported in data exchange messages.
An Interface Terminology may support “mappings” or relationships to Reference Terminologies.

Terminology Service – A Terminology Service is a networked component of an HIE: that centralizes
terminology knowledge (e.g. interface and reference terminologies, mappings, etc.) for the HIE and provides terminology services to other HIE applications.

The
Mission of the Terminology Services Community is to promote and support the effective capture, exchange (interoperability) and analysis (comparison and aggregation) of clinical information among components of the HIE. Our efforts include the documentation of
principles, processes, interfaces and tools that support the mission.

Jamie Thomas |Health Informatics Project Coordinator

Regenstrief Institute, Inc. |ph: 317.423.5670 | Skype: jamie.thomas5670|
jt48@regenstrief.org

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