Consulting and Mapping Services
STS offers clinical and technical implementation strategies, combined with mapping services, to promote and enable the use of terminologies, including SNOMED CT, within health care organizations and HIT products.
The Consulting and Mapping Services team provides a wide spectrum of consultation services. These services feature best practice advice for the integration of clinical terminologies within an EHR or stand-alone terminology knowledge bases, including the identification and mapping of structured data elements from existing clinical content sources.
STS clinical and technical subject matter experts are highly skilled in clinical terminology strategic planning, migration from earlier versions of SNOMED, code sets and classifications mappings, as well as validation of existing mappings and value sets. STS provides premier products and solutions to support interoperability by delivering leading-edge clinical consulting and mapping products and solutions.
The Consulting and Mapping Services team provides organizations with the following clinical informatics and technical services to identify and resolve terminology challenges:
- Assessment—Evaluation of client’s clinical content, analysis of data structures, review of current terminology practices, and creation of a terminology strategy
- Strategic Planning and Consultation—Development of a strategic roadmap for integration of terminology to provide desired clinical and business goals
- Implementation—Collaboration with clinical and technical teams to integrate terminology to yield desired clinical and business outcomes
- Education—Customization of terminology education tailored to meet client needs
- Mapping—Cross Mapping/coding proprietary data, code sets, and classifications
- Validation—Verification of client initiated terminology mappings
- Maintenance—Assurance successful adherence to the terminology roadmap
All Consulting and Mapping Services can be implemented at any point in your organization’s planning and development phase and can be customized for your specific needs and requirements.
STS has a global presence and has provided consultation and training in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Consulting and Mapping Services
- Consulting
- Comprehensive terminology analysis, implementation planning and strategy development for SNOMED CT and other terminologies for a database management company, software development companies, emergency department clinical documentation system, and statewide health agency
- Validation of data content standards, eg, LOINC and SNOMED, for federally required assessment instruments for government agencies
- Electronic health record (EHR) lexicon development employing standard nursing terminologies for hospital’s data dictionary
- SNOMED CT update management, including migration of older version of SNOMED to SNOMED CT for clinics and laboratories
- Standardization of electronic pathology reporting protocols and data transmission standards for cancer registries, hospital laboratories and laboratory information systems vendors
- Support health information exchange by providing SNOMED CT subject matter expertise for patient assessments for an international health data exchange organization and professional HIT association
- Mapping
- Comprehensive services from mapping use case development through to maintenance for government agencies, medical associations, medical centers, and electronic health record vendors. Services include SNOMED CT mappings for:
- ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, CPT-4, and other universally accepted classifications
- LOINC, MEDCIN, and several nursing terminologies
- Proprietary code sets and existing data dictionaries
- Demonstration project for the use and implementation of a rules-based map to support reimbursement, using enhanced algorithms based on specific mapping guidelines and heuristics for a university medical center and government agency
- Mapping and validation of existing clinical content to SNOMED CT for an emergency medicine EHR vendor
Other Services
- Building and maintaining SNOMED CT subsets and extensions
- Technical training for clinical terminology implementer s
- Customized clinical informatics and technical consulting solutions to meet your organization’s needs
