Whether you offer an enterprise-wide solution or best-of-breed application, terminology is a key determinate of your success. Traditionally, healthcare application developers have had limited control over the content used in their systems. In some cases standard terminologies have been chosen for them, in others they’ve selected the best fit at the time of development and in either case; their customers have required local customization. Terminology is the area of least control for software developers, yet the value of their offering is routinely graded on the quality, reliability and flexibility of how they manage clinical and administrative terms.
This traditional approach has led system vendors to become overly dependent on content publishers and vulnerable to industry shifts and regulatory changes. Clinical Architecture feels the best content should win and consumers of terminology should have the ability to select what is best for their specific needs.
SYMEDICAL Server puts system vendors in control with the best, most flexible terminology integration architecture designed to meets their needs regardless of which content sources they use, now or in the future.
SYMEDICAL Server enables Healthcare System Vendors to
Meet ARRA Meaningful Use Requirements
Meaningful Use requirements call for the exchange of accurate medical information between healthcare applications in machine readable, discrete coded terms. With the volume and diversity of standard, proprietary and local terminology sets in use, the only way to meet the Meaningful Use standard is through automated real-time terminology management.
Choose Central or Distributed Terminology Management
When it comes to the content used in healthcare applications, system developers have too little control over the data that drives end user functionality. SYMEDICAL Server enables the central management of content relationships, term mappings, routine updates and more. With SYMEDICAL Server, system vendors can centralize the management of all terminologies in their system with an internal team, or distribute the responsibility to their client or to a SYMEDICAL Certified provider.
Automate and Manage Content Distribution
Take control of content distribution, know when each client has applied an update, publish content relationships to support advanced functionality and be aware of client terminology localization.
SYMEDICAL Server’s Distribution Framework enables system vendors to automate, monitor and respond to changes in terminology.
Improve Quality Reporting Processes
One of the biggest challenges of regulatory reporting is simply identifying the targeted patient population. SYMEDICAL Server’s Identify function monitors the flow of data and captures a list of patients that are or may be included in the reporting group.
Enhance the Value of Clinical Data Aggregation
To derive meaning from aggregated data, the information must be “combinable”, or comparable on a common basis.
SYMEDICAL Server’s Cognition Engine processes each term description to create and store a normalized version for comparison and analysis.