Lessons learned in detailed clinical modeling at Intermountain Healthcare.
Intermountain Healthcare has a long history of using coded terminology and detailed clinical models (DCMs) to govern storage of clinical data to facilitate decision support and semantic interoperability. The latest iteration of DCMs at Intermountain is called the clinical element model (CEM). We describe the lessons learned from our CEM efforts with regard to subjective decisions a modeler frequently needs to make in creating a CEM. We present insights and [...]
Author(s): Oniki, Thomas A, Coyle, Joseph F, Parker, Craig G, Huff, Stanley M
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2014-002875