e3769401-8261-4661-8658-40dc3c09af7e Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:21:35 GMT 0529fb7c-fca8-49a9-9f77-3aabae7a81b0 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:05:06 GMT ddce4b89-6bf1-4cd3-94fc-71d666ecafef first day of Christmas, my informaticist gave to me
A hyper-precoordinated key]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:13:17 GMT 0e8114ab-a4eb-4190-b62b-e9bb023a5525 'transporter'.  It was the job of the transporter to teleport a person from point A to point B.  It does this by converting a person to a pattern of information and energy (dematerializing them), sending them through a beam and rematerializing them on the other side, hopefully without turning them inside out.]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:02:38 GMT e6e08d62-c267-42c9-a9f0-818d61ca707c Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:26:28 GMT 00102341-c86c-44bf-a464-9bcdff7f901d Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:40:44 GMT 68f36a01-32e3-4389-ab76-aa86b4406eb5 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 01:00:29 GMT 6f0d3b09-bd48-4bc3-b0a7-eec851bacd3e Sun, 13 Feb 2011 14:46:40 GMT 50adbbf4-3617-4a7c-a1d0-c131097c7cd7 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:47:19 GMT d8f645d7-99ad-473e-ad1d-a260377af3a1 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:17:24 GMT dd542a52-fb73-4d0b-8f7b-ac648527d2b2 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 01:12:30 GMT 6d61aef0-5485-4f22-a6f9-d29ff1f04310 resources page, I have posted an excel spreadsheet that includes ISMP Tallman drug names and the RxNorm CUIs they are directly and indirectly related to.  The first tab is the ISMP Tallman names and the RxNorm ingredients (TTY=IN) and brand names (TTY=BN).  The second tab lists the relationships between the ISMP Tallman names and more granular RxCUIs with the Tallman names incorporated into the descriptions as appropriate.  This was done by creating links based on the RXNREL table from the ingredient and brand names to their related concepts, replacing the names and manually reviewing each item. ]]> Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:11:44 GMT 0e9a3d55-e026-4f84-bda2-e6de885fe334 Its Just a Simple Procedure...Current Procedure Terminology (CPT)The Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set is maintained by the American Medical Association through the CPT Editorial Panel. The CPT code set accurately describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and is designed to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among physicians, coders, patients, accreditation organizations, and payers for administrative, financial, and analytical purposes.All CPT Codes are 5 digits.]]> Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:20:50 GMT 1691a308-7b0a-4c49-afdb-0ecfd74a380e Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:49:09 GMT 3af794a2-87a7-45a5-9124-83362cab8c1f Tue, 18 May 2010 09:51:49 GMT c63db0b4-7e96-4658-a6a7-a32057d9e37d Mon, 17 May 2010 22:37:48 GMT fd77d565-539f-4f1a-aa40-02dda37c8191 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:15:51 GMT b498e617-bdd5-467a-adac-91aa42841915 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:08:24 GMT 3ec07aca-9dc4-4a00-971b-7270ad940e04 In order to understand how a medication concept can be appropriately leveraged, you need to understand its characteristics and which are required to support a particular activity.]]> Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:04:27 GMT 6bacfe8b-48bc-4268-8f5a-28bc1b216e9d st century, we have been given a mandate to evolve our simplistic, episodic and transient patient records into the robust, longitudinal, and precise paragons of technology that has been promised in board meetings, speeches and science fiction movies.  This can be accomplished.  Like all good architecture, achieving this objective will require an evolution over time that starts with stable foundational concepts that support the goal.  There are a number of domains of clinical terminology: problems, procedures, laboratory tests, nursing orders, etc.  One of the most pervasive and complicated of these is medications.]]> Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:13:48 GMT b27be704-4287-469b-b5e1-c51c2943e986 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:45:05 GMT 1cbdce89-3c5d-4539-a509-659877884c9d For those of you evaluating the use of the SNOMED-CT Core Subset, you need to be aware that the NLM has made some non-trivial changes to the format and content of the subset file in the latest (second) release dated 200908 (July). ]]> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:37:52 GMT 46dfca3b-a875-47dc-be1e-6e21d5b185ef Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:09:20 GMT f24da1d0-cb77-4218-a62c-b05496e381b2 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:50:57 GMT 4ceef405-8198-43ae-858f-5b147fd75ded Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:39:02 GMT a78623a0-58d2-43d5-ae3d-b3da45bfd31f   ]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:43:06 GMT 18c44ac0-5ceb-49a2-a004-92fd796d8c9a Desiderata for Controlled Medical Vocabularies in the 21^st Century'.  Dr. Cimino's body of work is very enlightening and this particular publication started me on my personal journey into medical informatics.]]> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 21:56:39 GMT a54a60fb-66a8-41bf-8833-10344cc51038
This series of articles is designed to provide my perspective on what medical terminologies are, how they work, what's good about them and what can make them hard to use.  I am a practitioner of guerilla informatics.  Therefore, my thoughts and opinions may not be representative of the "official" informatics community.  For the record, I think that the ongoing work of the "official" informatics community is important and vital to the evolution of healthcare.  My objective here is to take a complex topic and try to make it more accessible. (So don't form a mob and come after me at the next AMIA conference...)
]]> Thu, 14 May 2009 23:13:46 GMT bf073d4f-84fe-4de5-af9e-8e81a175c3a8 Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:34:08 GMT f9cf2532-3904-4cfc-82f8-fcb94193c432 Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:51:38 GMT b0c52bdb-7b91-4e64-8fd8-0abf23f2d837 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:10:05 GMT 5b3cda9b-937c-40da-ab2f-0ebef17da1e9 Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:32:55 GMT 591cfaca-ea56-492a-a9b4-90aa79d8d45f Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:57:10 GMT 7a881f40-b040-42d5-98bf-4173dd0139ef Independence Day, you may recall that the nerd/hero of the movie, played by Jeff Goldblum, saves the day by interfacing with the alien mother ship and uploading a virus from the modem on his laptop.  When I saw this the first time, I looked around at the other people in the audience to see if it was just me, or if they too wanted to walk out of the theater.  I know that while watching a movie, especially about alien invasions, you are supposed to ‘suspend your disbelief.'  At that point in the movie, I would not have had to suspend my disbelief any further if, in the next scene, he attacked the mother ship while riding on the back of a unicorn.]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:26:45 GMT c1215e4a-aa27-4d78-8c53-bfd0beaafa09 Vitruvius in his treatise on architecture, De Architectura, asserted that there were three principles of good architecture]]> Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:06:16 GMT 40b8ca71-26d8-42be-b1e6-44287dcec7af Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:03:43 GMT