HERON Sunset includes Clinical Service Department information, which allows you to limit your search to a specific clinic. For example, searches can be limited to include only patients seen at Mid-America Cardiology (MAC). Clinical Service Department data is from the electronic medical record, O2, while the data in the Clinical Services folder is derived from the billing system, IDX.

Need help with HERON? Join the Frontiers Lunch and Learn which meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 PM in room 3001D Student Center. ​Register in advance if possible but drop-ins are welcome.

Any publication that results from a project utilizing HERON should cite grant support (CTSA Award # UL1TR000001).

HERON Sunset Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors ​Sunset Lake in Wisconsin.

The HERON repository contains over 2 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

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.

Misuse of the Limited Access Death Master File, NTIS, U.S. Department of Commerce data is subject to penalties under provisions of 15 CFR § 1110.200.

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:

• date shifting, part of our DeIdentificationStrategy
• age searching (#158)

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.

No results

Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues

Ticket	Summary	Keywords
#2301	constraining birth-date by date doesn't work - HERON uses sysdate for start_date in demographics	public-web wrong-results training
#2617	Saved searches not updated in REDCap projects after Arkansas release	public-web redcap-to-heron

New data types in the HERON Paradise release include registry and study enrollment data.

• Study enrollment information: Want to find out how many people in your patient set are already enrolled in a study at KUMC? Go to the Research Enrollment folder. You can search by status for patients actively enrolled, pre-enrolled and more. Additionally, you can search the status in a specific trial.
• Trauma registry: Search for patients seen at the KU trauma department. This is the first phase for incorporating this registry into HERON, and future work will include incorporating the outstanding trauma registry fields.

This release includes enhancements to the tumor registry and diagnosis fields.

• Labels added for site specific factors: Prior to this release, searching the CS Site Specific Factors within the tumor registry required an understanding of the SEER coding structure. This release replaces the numeric codes with text labels making it easier to search items such as ER positive breast cancer patients.
• Medical History: Previously HERON included any diagnosis added to the medical history field. In this release, the medical history diagnosis is limited to only the most recent recording of medical history.

Save time submitting your next identified data request by searching for team members by your approved IRB number. Searching by IRB number as opposed to a team member name will avoid a request denial due to unauthorized team members listed on the data request.

Feedback on new data sources or enhancements are always welcome.

Need help with HERON? Join the Frontiers Lunch and Learn which meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 PM in room 3001D Student Center. ​Register in advance if possible but drop-ins are welcome.

Any publication that results from a project utilizing HERON should cite grant support (CTSA Award # UL1TR000001).

HERON Paradise Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors ​Paradise Lake in Wisconsin.

The HERON repository contains over 2 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

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.

Misuse of the Limited Access Death Master File, NTIS, U.S. Department of Commerce data is subject to penalties under provisions of 15 CFR § 1110.200.

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:

• date shifting, part of our DeIdentificationStrategy
• age searching (#158)

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.

No results

Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues

Ticket	Summary	Keywords
#2301	constraining birth-date by date doesn't work - HERON uses sysdate for start_date in demographics	public-web wrong-results training
#2617	Saved searches not updated in REDCap projects after Arkansas release	public-web redcap-to-heron

HERON Pike release includes data through December 2015.  During this release, the Medical Informatics team hosted the GPC Hackathon 3 in Kansas City, KS.  Thirteen institutions came together to develop and test code for future GPC work.   See ​agendaand​meeting notes for additional meeting information.

Need help with HERON? Join the Frontiers Lunch and Learn which meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 PM in room 3001D Student Center. ​Register in advance if possible but drop-ins are welcome.

Any publication that results from a project utilizing HERON should cite grant support (CTSA Award # UL1TR000001).

HERON Pike Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors ​Pike Lake.

The HERON repository contains over 2 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

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.

Misuse of the Limited Access Death Master File, NTIS, U.S. Department of Commerce data is subject to penalties under provisions of 15 CFR § 1110.200.

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:

• date shifting, part of our DeIdentificationStrategy
• age searching (#158)

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.

No results

Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues

Ticket	Summary	Keywords
#2301	constraining birth-date by date doesn't work - HERON uses sysdate for start_date in demographics	public-web wrong-results training
#2617	Saved searches not updated in REDCap projects after Arkansas release	public-web redcap-to-heron

HERON Butternut is the last release for 2015 and marks the 56th release of HERON. This release involves back-end maintenance. While not visible most users, the fixes will improve the future release processes.

Since the ​beta release of HERON in March 2011, HERON data has grown to over 2.14 billion clinical observations. This table provides an overview of the growth in data from the March 2011 to December 2015 releases. You will note that only 5 data types were available in March 2011. See the Butternut Content Summary for a listing of currently available data types, including those added since the inaugural release.

*Note Total patient counts for Nursing observations are not available due to the amount of time necessary to compile statistics on over 1 billion clinical observations. The patient numbers are available in the nursing flowsheets at the search concept level.

Need help with HERON? Join the Frontiers Lunch and Learn which meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 PM in room 3001D Student Center. ​Register in advance if possible but drop-ins are welcome.

Any publication that results from a project utilizing HERON should cite grant support (CTSA Award # UL1TR000001).

HERON Butternut Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors ​Butternut Lake.

The HERON repository contains over 2 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

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.

Misuse of the Limited Access Death Master File, NTIS, U.S. Department of Commerce data is subject to penalties under provisions of 15 CFR § 1110.200.

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:

• date shifting, part of our DeIdentificationStrategy
• age searching (#158)

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.

No results

Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues

Ticket	Summary	Keywords
#2301	constraining birth-date by date doesn't work - HERON uses sysdate for start_date in demographics	public-web wrong-results training
#2617	Saved searches not updated in REDCap projects after Arkansas release	public-web redcap-to-heron

​Pioneers Recruitment Registry is now included in HERON. The Pioneers registry allows searches to be limited only to those members of the public who consented to be contacted regarding clinical trials at KUMC, This month the registry is only available in HERON to the Pioneers administrators. It will be searchable by all HERON users in the future.

Labs within the LOINC folder are now searchable by lab value. ​LOINC codes are universal identifiers used to facilitate the sharing of laboratory data for research, outcomes management, and clinical care.

Need help with HERON? Join the Frontiers Lunch and Learn which meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 12:00 - 1:30 PM in room 3001D Student Center. ​Register in advance if possible but drop-ins are welcome.

Any publication that results from a project utilizing HERON should cite grant support (CTSA Award # UL1TR000001).

HERON Menomonee Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors ​Menominee River.

The HERON repository contains over 2 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

* Currently, HERON is missing around 3M encounter diagnosis records. We expect to resolve this issue in the next release.

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.

Misuse of the Limited Access Death Master File, NTIS, U.S. Department of Commerce data is subject to penalties under provisions of 15 CFR § 1110.200.

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:

• date shifting, part of our DeIdentificationStrategy
• age searching (#158)

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.

No results

Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues

HERON Republican release allows you to limit laboratory searches to a value for tests with a value assigned. If a lab test does not include a value (e.g., testing positive or negative for influenza) the option to limit by value will not appear. This release also introduces outpatient billing service lines and microbiology positive results.

Remember: any publication that results from a project utilizing HERON should cite grant support (CTSA Award # UL1TR000001).

HERON Republican Contents Summary

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

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.5 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:

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.

Misuse of the Limited Access Death Master File, NTIS, U.S. Department of Commerce data is subject to penalties under provisions of 15 CFR § 1110.200.

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:

• date shifting, part of our DeIdentificationStrategy
• age searching (#158)

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.

Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues