Starts with "H"
Internationally accepted industry standard for data exchange in healthcare (3 characters)
Resource starting with 'P' containing the "who" information about the recipient of care, such as demographics
What is Patient?
The hottest, most RESTful API in healthcare
What is FHIR?
(Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)
Admit it, if you can't discharge your duty to come up with this 3-letter message name, you'll transfer
What is an ADT message?
(Admit, Discharge, and Transfer)
Of these 3 levels of data modeling -- conceptual, logical, physical -- this one contains explicit datatypes
What is a physical data model?
A system for exchanging patient medical/health information between doctors offices, healthcare organizations, pharmacies, etc. (3 character acronym)
What is an HIE?
Health Information Exchange
Resource stating with 'P' containing data about someone with a formal responsibility in the provisioning of healthcare or related services
What is Practitioner?
This lab and observation terminology standard doesn't quack like a duck, but it does almost sound like its barnyard animal mascot
What is LOINC? (originally Logical Observations Identifiers Names and Codes)
ORM is the Order Entry message type, but this is the message type for the Observation Result - Do u know what it is?
What is ORU?
Of these 3 levels of data modeling -- conceptual, logical, physical -- this one might only show entity names and relationships.
What is a conceptual data model?
An organization that manages security and transport for health information exchange among health care entities or individuals using the Direct standard for transport. (4 character acronym)
What is a HISP?
Health Information Services Provider
Resource starting with 'A' containing data about the booking of a healthcare event among patient(s), practitioner(s), related person(s) and/or device(s) for a specific date/time.
What is Appointment?
The "coolest" global standard for clinical terms--not just for diagnoses
What is SNOMED CT?
(Originally 'Systematized NOmenclature in MEDicine - Clinical Terms)
Roger that, I acknowledge receipt of your message
What is ACK?
(Acknowledgement Message)
Kit goes with Kat in chocolate, but goes with this instead in Epic's dimensional data warehouse model
What is Caboodle?
SNOMED CT concepts are organized in these tree-like relationships, showing types and subtypes (9 characters)
What is a hierarchy?
Resource primarily used for the identification and definition of a substance for the purposes of prescribing, dispensing, and administering it to patients
What is Medication?
What is DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine)
The sign said "No soliciting", but I provided my scheduling information anyway (or a college in Carbondale, Illinois)
What is SIU?
Scheduling Information Unsolicited
Not a Star Wars character, but an alphanumerically-named research common data model (CDM)
What is i2b2?
(Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside)
Standardized coding system for medical procedures, supplies, and services, used to process health insurance claims by Medicare and other insurers, authored by CMS not the AMA. (5 characters).
What is HCPCS?
(commonly pronounced “hicks-picks.”)
Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System
Resource containing detailed information about problems or diagnoses
What is Condition?
The industry standard for creating patient care summary documents -- not carbon-copying the prosecutor
What is C-CDA (Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture)?
EHRs must be able to receive medical documents received via an interface--this HL7 message type manages just fine.
What is MDM?
Medical Document Management?
Ode to a household cleaning item, or a research common data model (CDM)
What is OMOP?
(Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership)