Posts for the month of October 2013

HERON Solomon marks the 32nd consecutive release

Over the past 32 releases, HERON grew in data, functionality, and use. New data types include REDCap projects, Biospecimen Repository, Tumor Registry information, and much more. In response to this increase, the Medical Informatics team lead the ​HERON Fishing Trip, an extended training workshop in August 2013. This two day event consisted of hands-on and classroom trainings with attendance both in person and online.

Since that workshop, monthly searches have surpassed 1000, ​Frontiers Research Participant Registry requests increased, and clinics are steadily attended. Researchers, study coordinators, students, and administrators from multiple areas of KUMC and KU Hospital search HERON. Thirty-two releases after the initial launch and HERON continues to grow.

The Solomon release includes clinical data through September 2013.

HERON Solomon Contents Summary

This month, our tour of ​rivers and lakes in Kansas honors Solomon River.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.25 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

Observation Patients Source Go-Live Snapshot Issues
Allergy 450K 212K
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 September 2013 various*
Cancer Cases 10.2M 70.1K
KUH Cancer Registry 1950s September 2013 labels*
Demographics 19.1M 2.00M
KUH Billing (​O2 via SMS) 1980s August 2013 various*
UKP Billing 2000 September 2013
18.8K 18.8K Frontiers participant registry Jun 2009 September 2013
189.9K 189.9K Social Security Death Index 1962 September 2013
Diagnoses (IDC9) 51M 708K
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 September 2013 various*
UKP Billing 2000 September 2013
University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Q4 2008 June 2013
History 20.2M 343K
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 September 2013
Lab Results 94M 323K
KUH/O2/Epic 2003 September 2013 various*
Medications 103M 352K
KUH/O2/Epic (Organized by VA Class) Nov 2007 September 2013 various*
Microbiology 2.75M 24.6K
KUH/O2/Epic 2003 (?) September 2013 various*
Nursing Observations 671M ?
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 September 2013 various*
Procedure Orders 135M 488K
KUH/O2/Epic 2003 (?) September 2013 various*
Procedures (CPT) 11.4M 614K
UKP Billing 2000 September 2013
REDCap 282K 4.69K
REDCap July 2011 September 2013
Reports/Notes 48.1M 328K
KUH/O2/Epic ? September 2013
Specimens 79.8K 6.12K
KUMC Biospecimen Repository ? September 2013
Visit Details 34.6M 593K
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 September 2013
​Hospital Quality Metrics 5.60M 77.3K
University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Q4 2008 June 2013
All 1.28B

Notice

Some material in the ​UMLS Metathesaurus is from copyrighted sources of the respective copyright holders. Users of the UMLS Metathesaurus are solely responsible for compliance with any copyright, patent or trademark restrictions and are referred to the copyright, patent or trademark notices appearing in the original sources, all of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

Beta Disclaimer

We are providing this early access to obtain feedback from you, the research community. While we are actively working on validating the data loaded into the system with hospital and clinic technical staff, there may be problems with our translation of data from our source systems (HospitalEpicSource and ClinicIdxSource) into HERON.

Please email us at heron-admin@kumc.edu if you discover information you believe may be erroneous.

We are actively working on enhancing the types of data included. Stay tuned to our roadmap to track progress toward upcoming releases.

Various Issues Still Apply

Keep in mind the issues noted in the original HERON beta notice, including:

Enhancements and Problems/Defects/Issues Addressed in this Release

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Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues