The clinical terminology behind the health IT curtain

IMO Health’s Chief Strategy Officer, Dale Sanders, highlights just a few of the secondary uses enabled by IMO Health’s comprehensive clinical terminology.

The image featured above depicts IMO Health’s granularity and relationship to ICD-10-CM and SNOMED CT®. The truth is, IMO Health’s terminology is more clinically relevant and granular than either of these standardized code sets for describing a patient’s diagnosis and problems – and that’s why physicians love it. The IMO Health “compound terminology mapping” also allows a patient’s diagnosis to be more completely described by mapping to multiple ICD and SNOMED codes.

Oddly, IMO Health’s diagnosis terminology is rarely leveraged for secondary use, but speaking as an analytics and data strategist person, IMO Health’s more relevant and granular terminology has all sorts of downstream value to more accurate patient cohorts. Consider this short list for starters:

IMO Health’s diagnosis and problem terminology, which supports all industry standards, is being used in EHRs that cover virtually every hospital bed and clinic in the US, plus 17 countries. But, at best, only 40% of those clients recognize the IMO Health brand. Part of my job at IMO Health is to educate the market about what IMO Health does now, and what’s possible with the untapped potential for that terminology in secondary use.

To see how IMO Health’s clinical terminology can help your organization today, contact us to schedule a demo.

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