Provider, Payor, Exchange or Vendor...
Regardless of your role in healthcare, the use of information technology and how well it leverages clinical and administrative terminologies affects you.
The expectation for healthcare applications to pass, interpret and act upon medical record information continues to rise and simply having an interface connection between two systems is not enough. The information passed between systems must be “machine readable” and accurately represent the original clinical context.
In other words, it’s not enough to map which fields correlate between systems (allergy → allergy). The actual data received must be translated into the terminology code sets used by the receiving system (allergy A → allergy A). Otherwise, it’s like having a conversation with someone in a language you don’t understand.
Given the vast amounts of data and unstructured information stored in existing applications the industry cannot continue to manage terminologies as it has to date. It helps that a number of terminology sets have been designated as required communication “standards”, but they’re not easily integrated into existing software solutions or helpful in understanding historical records. The industry needs a solution that enables everyone in healthcare to take control of terminologies and achieve semantic interoperability between any system that can contribute information valuable to patient care and business operations.
SYMEDICAL Server is that solution.