TY - GEN
T1 - A unified approach to adoption of laboratory LOINC in Taiwan
AU - Liu, Chien Tsai
AU - Hsu, Min-Huei
AU - Wang, Liang W.
AU - Wen, Li L.
AU - Lai, Jin Shin
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - It becomes very difficult for pooling and combining of patients' laboratory test results from different healthcare providers for integrated care when using different set of the codes. LOINC® (Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes) has been developed to facilitate the transmission and storing of clinical laboratory results among different sources of clinical laboratories since 1994. Currently, the LOINC codes are most comprehensive for the identifiers of laboratory tests, and widely adopted internationals. Since National Health Insurance (NHI) codes have been used nationwide in Taiwan, most clinical laboratories and hospitals have a mapping database between their internal codes and the NHI codes. In this paper, we present methods to create a NHI-LOINC mapping database as an intermediate medium, and develop a web-based NHI-LOINC mapping system to facilitate the mapping from hospital internal codes to the LOINC codes. Our approach can reduce the learning curve and required domain knowledge for the LOINC due to familiarity of NHI codes. Hence, it can facilitate the adoption of LOINC codes in Taiwan.
AB - It becomes very difficult for pooling and combining of patients' laboratory test results from different healthcare providers for integrated care when using different set of the codes. LOINC® (Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes) has been developed to facilitate the transmission and storing of clinical laboratory results among different sources of clinical laboratories since 1994. Currently, the LOINC codes are most comprehensive for the identifiers of laboratory tests, and widely adopted internationals. Since National Health Insurance (NHI) codes have been used nationwide in Taiwan, most clinical laboratories and hospitals have a mapping database between their internal codes and the NHI codes. In this paper, we present methods to create a NHI-LOINC mapping database as an intermediate medium, and develop a web-based NHI-LOINC mapping system to facilitate the mapping from hospital internal codes to the LOINC codes. Our approach can reduce the learning curve and required domain knowledge for the LOINC due to familiarity of NHI codes. Hence, it can facilitate the adoption of LOINC codes in Taiwan.
KW - Electronic health record
KW - LOINC
KW - Laboratory information systems
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U2 - 10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381620
DO - 10.1109/HEALTH.2007.381620
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34748873958
SN - 142440942X
SN - 9781424409426
T3 - HEALTHCOM 2007: Ubiquitous Health in Aging Societies - 2007 9th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services
SP - 144
EP - 149
BT - HEALTHCOM 2007
T2 - HEALTHCOM 2007: Ubiquitous Health in Aging Societies - 2007 9th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application and Services
Y2 - 19 June 2007 through 22 June 2007
ER -