Medical Terminology Content Manager
Here’s How TermHub™ Helps You!
A Medical Terminology Manager is responsible for overseeing and managing the medical terminology used within a healthcare organization or system.
Termhub™ provides a one-stop shop for your accessing the release files for all terminologies. Rather than going to the NLM and downloading this and that, then to LOINC, etc.… you come to us. We will have it all available to you in a clean manner and in various formats. This could be for a researcher, this could be for a student, this could be for a digital startup, this could be for an EMR vendor… basically anyone who uses terminology but doesn’t want to integrate with another system, but rather host it themselves. This is a HUMAN user.
Developing and Maintaining Terminology Standards: The Medical Terminology Manager establishes and maintains standards for medical terminology usage within the organization. This includes selecting and adopting standardized terminologies such as ICD (International Classification of Diseases), SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms), LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes), and others.
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Terminology Mapping and Integration
They oversee the mapping and integration of different medical terminologies used across various systems within the healthcare organization. This ensures consistency and interoperability between different applications and databases.
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Evaluating New Terminology Releases
The Medical Terminology Manager stays up-to-date with new releases and updates to medical terminologies and evaluates their relevance and suitability for adoption within the organization. They assess the impact of changes in terminology standards on existing systems and workflows.
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Providing Guidance and Training
They provide guidance and training to healthcare providers, clinicians and administrative staff on the use of standardized medical terminologies. This includes educating staff on terminology conventions, coding guidelines and best practices for documentation and data entry.
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Quality Assurance and Compliance
The Medical Terminology Manager ensures the accuracy, completeness and quality of medical terminology data within the organization's systems. They may conduct audits and quality assurance checks to identify and rectify inconsistencies or errors in terminology usage. They also ensure compliance with regulatory requirements related to medical coding and terminology.
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Collaboration with IT and Clinical Departments
They collaborate with IT departments, clinical informaticists and other stakeholders to implement and maintain terminology-related functionalities within electronic health record (EHR) systems, clinical decision support systems and other healthcare information systems.
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Supporting Research and Data Analysis:
The Medical Terminology Manager may support research initiatives and data analysis projects by providing expertise in medical terminology coding and classification. They assist in the extraction and analysis of healthcare data using standardized terminologies to support clinical research, quality improvement initiatives and population health management.
The Crucial Role of Medical Terminology Managers in Healthcare Optimization
Overall, the role of a Medical Terminology Manager is critical in ensuring the accuracy, consistency and interoperability of medical terminology within healthcare organizations, ultimately contributing to improved patient care, data integrity and operational efficiency.
✺ Questions about how TermHub™ can help? ✺
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TermHub™ has built integrations to a number of content providers and has a scheduling mechanism that regularly checks for version updates. When new data is available, it is automatically processed and loaded in. Users with projects tied to these terminologies will receive notifications when these updates occur.
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Yes, TermHub™ offers API access to all terminology content as well as the ability to download “native” file formats as well as other industry standard formats like OMOP.