SHIELD: Overcoming obstacles to lab information interoperability
Disparate terminologies like LOINC® and SNOMED CT® make the interoperability of lab data a significant challenge. SHIELD aims to change that.
Disparate terminologies like LOINC® and SNOMED CT® make the interoperability of lab data a significant challenge. SHIELD aims to change that.
From the names of standardized code sets to the abbreviations for professional societies, health IT is full of acronyms. We’ve got a quick overview below.
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Pharmacogenomics, the study of how a person’s genes affect their response to medications, holds great potential – but obstacles to its adoption abound.
Interoperability in healthcare involves layers of technical, syntactic, and semantic data exchange. The latter has proven the most elusive to achieve.
Apps that improve native EHR workflows are making the medical problem list easier to use. And that’s great news for providers and patients alike.
Learn how ontologies give systems, like your EHR, the “knowledge” they need to support automated reasoning.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed longstanding problems in public health. IMO’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dale Sanders, suggests ways to fix an ailing system.
Need help keeping track of which standardized code sets update when? Our 2022 calendar is here to help.
That’s a wrap! As 2021 draws to a close, we’re rounding up our top content of the year. First up? Our 10 most popular webinars.
IMO and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are working together to help AWS customers quickly and easily migrate healthcare data to a cloud native environment.
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of systemic problems hindering healthcare in the United States. Below, IMO’s Chief Medical Officer, Andrew S. Kanter, MD, discusses the impact of one such issue – the frequent failure to collect data that is fit for purposes beyond financial management.