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Managing Medical Vocabulary Updates in a Clinical Data Warehouse: An RxNorm Case Study.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  21347024     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Data-Review    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Use of terminology standards facilitates aggregating data from multiple sources for information retrieval, exchange and analysis. However, medical vocabularies are continuously updated and incorporating those changes consistently into clinical data warehouses requires rigorous methodology. To integrate pharmacy data from two hospital pharmacy information systems the Stanford Translational Research Integrated Database Environment (STRIDE) project mapped medication orders to RxNorm content using the RxNorm drug model. In order to keep the data relevant and up-to-date, we developed a strategy for updating to RxNorm, while preserving the original meaning and mapping of the legacy data. This case study discusses managing the vocabulary update by following the RxNorm content maintenance strategy and supplementing it with operations to retain access to its drug model information.
Authors:
Tanya Podchiyska; Penni Hernandez; Todd Ferris; Susan Weber; Henry J Lowe
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-11-13
Journal Detail:
Title:  AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium     Volume:  2010     ISSN:  1942-597X     ISO Abbreviation:  AMIA Annu Symp Proc     Publication Date:  2010  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2011-02-24     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101209213     Medline TA:  AMIA Annu Symp Proc     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  477-81     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Center for Clinical Informatics, Stanford University, Stanford CA.
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