Providing care across multiple facilities, settings, locations, and departments means supporting multiple systems for the collection of clinical and administrative data—and for accurate and timely billing. How can the provider synchronize clinical concepts and terms and administrative code sets enterprise-wide? By using the HLI Language Engine, for complete medical terminology management.

Hospitals and integrated delivery networks:

  Multiple systems require synchronized versions of clinical and administrative code sets for quality patient care and accurate, timely billing. The Language Engine manages content updates, including custom local content sets. In addition, a data warehouse implemented at an enterprise level requires a tool like the Language Engine for metadata management of clinical and administrative concepts in date-sensitive versions. The LE solution helps ensure interoperability and efficient content updates.

Care management:

  Being able to identify and communicate with patients about their care plans requires adequate clinical direction and the ability to translate medical terminology and administrative codes sets into consumer-friendly terms. The Language Engine solution provides the technology and services to link these terminologies and bring these three worlds together.

Outpatient:

  Each medical specialty has its unique set of clinical and administrative codes to support the clinician. The medical specialty subsets provided by HLI, and the ability to build and manage unique clinical subsets in LE, empower organizations and clinicians to better manage care delivery and more accurately bill for services rendered.

Reference labs:

  Providing diagnostic lab services across large areas demands IT integration with multiple care providers. Provider settings may use proprietary content sets to support administrative functions and to publish the clinical test orders, statuses, and results—the Language Engine provides mapping capabilities for building cross-maps between lab data coding and provider coding. In addition, next generation information networks such as RHIOs and HIEs now request that diagnostic lab services provide orders, tests, and results in a format mapped to the industry-standard terminology set LOINC. The LE solution offers the technology and content to streamline the mapping of the order catalogs.