Posts for the month of June 2013

HERON Sappa release improves performance and microbiology

This release includes behind the scenes fixes to HERON. Performance speed increased in diagnosis and the timeline. Microbiology hierarchy is enhanced for improved browsing.

HERON Sappa Summary

This month, our tour of ​rivers and lakes in Kansas honors Sappa Creek.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

Observation Patients Source Go-Live Snapshot Issues
Cancer Cases 10.1M 68.4K
KUH Cancer Registry 1950s May 2013 labels*
Demographics 18.8M 1.97M
KUH Billing (​O2 via SMS) 1980s May 2013 various*
UKP Billing 2000 May 2013
17.1K 17.1K Frontiers participant registry Jun 2009 May 2013
188.9K 188.9K Social Security Death Index 1962 May 2013
Diagnoses (IDC9) 47.2M 684K
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 May 2013 various*
UKP Billing 2000 May 2013
University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Q4 2008 Dec 2012
History 17.4M 322K
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 May 2013
Lab Results 89.3M 306K
KUH/O2/Epic 2003 May 2013 various*
Medications 97M 332K
KUH/O2/Epic (Organized by VA Class) Nov 2007 May 2013 various*
Microbiology 2.58M 23.2K
KUH/O2/Epic 2003 (?) May 2013 various*
Nursing Observations 625M ?
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 May 2013 various*
Order Sets 322K 41.7K
KUH/O2/Epic 2003 (?) May 2013 various*
Procedure Orders 125M 466K
KUH/O2/Epic 2003 (?) May 2013 various*
Procedures (CPT) 11.1M 598K
UKP Billing 2000 May 2013
REDCap 40.2K 348
REDCap July 2011 May 2013 #2000
Reports/Notes 42.9M 307K
KUH/O2/Epic ? May 2013 #1955
Specimens 59.4K 4.79K
KUMC Biospecimen Repository ? May 2013
Visit Details 31.3M 560K
KUH/O2/Epic Nov 2007 May 2013
​Hospital Quality Metrics 5M 69.2K
University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) Q4 2008 Dec 2012
All 1.13B

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

Due to in-progress trac access policy issues, this section may be blank for a time.

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Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues