Health Language’s Scalable Language Engine Helps Hospitals, Physicians Demonstrate Meaningful Use
Medical terminology management tools provide foundation for compliance with key final regulations.
Denver, August 5, 2010—Health Language, Inc. (HLI) announced that its medical terminology management tools can facilitate compliance with the final meaningful use requirements. HLI’s Language Engine provides the software infrastructure, medical content and terminology expertise to enable true healthcare IT interoperability and enhanced patient care and communication that are at the core of what meaningful use is trying to accomplish.
HLI’s scalable, flexible language engine streamlines the updating, mapping and distribution of standard controlled vocabularies and facilitates compliance with meaningful use regulations:
- Supports more than 100 major healthcare code sets, including all those required for meaningful use such as SNOMED CT®, LOINC®, ICD-9-CM, ICD-9-Procedures, RxNorm, CVX and MVX Immunization codes.
- Provider Friendly Terminology mapped to SNOMED and ICD-9-CM simplifies creation of up-to-date problem lists
- Tools, web services and mapping services facilitate mapping of local lab codes to LOINC to record clinical lab test results
- Mappings from proprietary drug terminologies to RxNorm to maintain medication lists and facilitate medication reconciliation
- Codify free text to these Meaningful Use standards
- Language Engine Access Portal (LEAP) enables web access to codesets and provides users with ability to create custom subsets and mappings to facilitate creation of codified problem and medication lists
- Utilize Patient-Friendly Terminology to create easy-to-understand discharge summaries terminologies and patient education information
- Includes the 100+ PQRI measures in an easy to consume format that are required for quality reporting that set the stage for converting data into actionable intelligence
“HLI’s Language Engine is already in use at more than 4,000 sites on five continents,” explained Health Language CEO George Schwend. “It provides mapping and terminology for leading HIT (healthcare information technology) vendors, for health ministries like the United Kingdom’s National Health Service and for standards organizations such as IHTSDO, owner of SNOMED-CT. It is gratifying to help enable the move to true semantic interoperability. Once the infrastructure is in place, our clients will be well prepared to take on these challenges and more.”
About Health Language
Denver-based Health Language, Inc. (HLI) develops and delivers state-of-the-art software solutions that automatically incorporate medical vocabulary and coding standards into healthcare information technology (HCIT) applications. HLI’s Language Engine (LE) allows centralized access to medical terminology standards and generates mappings to create a common pool of standardized codes and concepts that enhance patient safety, facilitate clinical outcomes analysis and accelerate reimbursement. It also provides standards for modeling, storing, updating and distributing information consistently for interoperability between hospitals, regions and countries. For more information, visit www.healthlanguage.com or call 720-940-2900 (U.S.), +34 (659) 539 614 (Spain), or +44 (0) 870 420 2470 (England).