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

HERON Rolling Stone release introduces de-identified flowsheet notes. When pulling a flowsheet note into a group within your search, you will be prompted to enter a value. Selecting no value will search for any patient with a note documented. To search for a string of text, enter it in the value box. These notes are de-identified so you cannot search on a date, name, or other PHI element within the note.

Rolling Stone also includes alert status to see how often an alert is fired or overridden.

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 Rolling Stone Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors ​Rolling Stone 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 Plum release includes an upgrade to the latest i2b2 version (1.7.07). New features available in this i2b2 version include:

• Search your previous queries by name
• Delete temporal constraints
• Restrict dates at the item level in addition to group level
• Access plugins quickly from the find patient page
• Print query report
• Display query by right click on search

Trying to recruit patients for a study through ​Pioneers? Currently you can search Pioneers patients based on self reported medical history. Go to REDCap -> Pioneers -> Pioneers Survey -> Pioneers Medical History Survey to search on conditions specified in the medical history form. Future enhancements will include the ability to search across all data sources in HERON for patients who consent.

In a move to improve the medication data within HERON, this release includes an update to the RxNorm. Newer medications previously not found in HERON are now visible in the hierarchy.

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 Plum Contents Summary

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

Interested in limiting your search to patients with MyChart accounts? HERON Michigan introduces the MyChart folder within Demographics. This folder provides granular information in addition to the general question of whether or not the patient has an account. For example: Looking for only active MyChart users? Search patients who activated and accessed their account. This will eliminate patients who activate but never use their accounts. Want to limit your search to only patients you can contact via email? Search the "Chose to receive E-mail" folder.

Identified patient notes are now available for identified data requests. While you cannot search these notes in HERON, the notes can be provided in an approved identified data request. For example, drag Reports->Visit Notes->Note Types->ED Provider Notes into your query to receive the provider note text from ED visits for patients in your patient set.

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 Michigan Contents Summary

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

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

It is now possible to search diagnoses by either ICD9 or ICD10. ICD10 has been used in O2 since the Epic 2014 upgrade early in 2015. GE IDX will move to ICD10 in October of this year.

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 Ray Hubbard Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors the ​Lake Ray Hubbard located in Dallas, Texas.

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

Search for data used to measure and improve quality of cardiovascular care at KUMC with the ​National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR) data in HERON. The NCDR is used to answer questions regarding patient risk factors and outcomes as well as procedures, treatments and device use.

Searching with alerts continues to improve with enhancements to the drug interaction and allergy alerts data.

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 River Walk Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors the ​River Walk in San Antonio, TX.

The HERON repository contains approximately 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.

Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues

O2 billing diagnosis is the latest addition to diagnosis modifiers in the HERON Calhoun release. Other diagnosis modifiers include IDX/UHC billing and O2 clinical. Modifiers can be used to narrow your search for a more precise patient set.

Medication order end dates and alert start and end dates/times are corrected with this release.

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 Calhoun Contents Summary

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

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.9 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

Query how many people had a drug-drug interaction best practice alert with the HERON Jamestown release. Go to Alerts -> Med Interaction Checking -> Drug-Drug -> Alphabetic folder based on the first letter of the alert description (e.g., M for Metformin/Cimetidine)

​Register for the 3rd Annual HERON Fishing Trip, a training workshop

Date: July 16, 2015, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM CST

Location: Dykes Library, Room G026

What to expect Workshop will include both classroom and hands-on trainings. Topics for discussion:

• Data types within HERON
• Temporal and advanced search capabilities
• Analysis tools within HERON
• Data requests: RRRC and DROC
• Modifiers to narrow your search
• Data delivery and integration

Can't make the Fishing Trip? 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 Jamestown Contents Summary

This month, our tour of ​rivers and lakes in Kansas honors the Jamestown Wildlife Area.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.9 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

HERON Quivira release checks the new CITI ​Human Subjects Training program. If your training has lapsed, you will have until July 1, 2015 to complete it. After July 1, your HERON access will be terminated if training is not in compliance.

Want to know how many patients meeting your search criteria have email addresses on file? HERON Quivira release includes a searchable flag for either IDX (billing) or O2 (electronic medical record) recorded email addresses.

In an effort to facilitate your data analysis, this release will allow for data limited to modifiers. Previously, your data set would include any modifier attached to the patient observation. For example, if you wanted an inpatient medication, such as Clopidogrel, you would receive any observation associated with that medication (e.g., inpatient order, dose, historical medication, and more). Now, if you only want the data associated with one of the modifiers, such as outpatient order, your dataset will include only outpatient order observations. All modifiers are still available for a search concept. The data will reflect your search. If you pull a modifier into your search, you will receive observations for that modifier only. If you don't limit the modifier in the search, you will receive all modifier observations for that concept.

Questions about 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 Quivira Contents Summary

This month, our tour of ​rivers and lakes in Kansas honors the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.9 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

​LOINC codes are universal identifiers used to facilitate the sharing of laboratory data for research, outcomes management, and clinical care. The Cheyenne Bottoms release includes two folders for labs: LOINC and Hospital. While the majority of labs are mapped to LOINC, future work continues. As a result, the HERON LOINC hierarchy is in draft format. Please send any feedback on this change to heron-admin@….

The new hierarchy structure for HERON laboratory tests is based upon discussions at the ​GPC Hackathon Two and work by Cerner. Many thanks to Cerner and the GPC Dev team for input and scripts.

Questions about 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 Cheyenne Bottoms Contents Summary

This month, our tour of ​rivers and lakes in Kansas honors the Cheyenne Bottoms Refuge.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.85 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

Looking for medications prescribed at an outpatient surgery visit? Want to limit patients with an outpatient surgery to those with a specific diagnosis at the time of surgery? Now you can. HERON McMillan Marsh maps IDX and O2 encounters resulting in the ability to link O2 concepts, such as diagnosis and medications, with IDX concepts, such as outpatient procedures, with the same financial encounter temporal constraint.

New data types

• Best practice and medication alerts are accessible in the Alert folder. This folder is in draft mode, and your ​feedback is welcome.
• Emergency Episode is a new field available in the Visit Details/Encounter Type folder. This field allows you to search for patients seen in the emergency department regardless of where their encounters originated or terminated. The Emergency field, also in the Encounter Type folder, represents patients who left the Emergency Department without being admitted to the hospital.

Questions about 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 McMillan Marsh Contents Summary

Our tour of rivers and lakes expands to include bodies of water within the ​Greater Plains Collaborative states. This month honors the ​McMillian Marsh in Marshfield, WI.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.68 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

HERON searches would stop running and appear as processing indefinitely once timed out (~180 seconds). HERON Webster release fixes the issue. Once a search times out, it will continue to search in the background. Check the query in your previous queries section to see if the search completes.

This release includes back-end enhancements that will allow for more precise data delivery when requesting data. Searches limited by dates will now provide only data within those date ranges. Improvements to identified data requests are also included. ​Learn more about requesting data.

Questions about 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 Webster Contents Summary

This month, our tour of ​rivers and lakes in Kansas honors the Webster Reservoir.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.68 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

The HERON Kanopolis release marks the 45th update to HERON. Over the past 46 months, HERON has grown in terms of data and functionality. Temporal Queries, ability to filter searches through modifiers, and improvements to the Timeline tool are just a few examples of new functionality. HERON continues to grow through the ​PCORI ​Greater Plains Collaborative (GPC) work toward standardization of concept hierarchies, and the amount of medical data within HERON has grown from approximately 300 Million in the early releases to over 1.68 Billion medical observations in this release.

HERON Kanopolis new features (concepts):

• IDX Place of Service, new concept that identifies the physical setting for outpatient/clinic-based services (office, clinic, inpatient hospital, outpatient hospital, emergency room hospital and others).

HERON Kanopolis fixes:

• Inability to reuse temporal queries
• Same financial encounter mapping between UHC and O2 data

HERON Kanopolis known issues:

• 8300 UHC to O2 encounter mappings are lost. The HERON team is troubleshooting this issue.
• Flowsheets observations decreased due to data clean-up in O2.

The Kanopolis release includes data through November 2014.

Questions about 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 Kanopolis Contents Summary

This month, our tour of ​rivers and lakes in Kansas honors the Kanopolis Lake.

The HERON repository contains approximately 1.68 billion real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems: