UHC Core measures, Standard Medication Terms, and REDCap integration added to HERON in Cimarron release
Cimarron release includes a new structure for browsing data (medications), addition of a new data repository (REDCap), and new data concepts (UHC) plus bug fixes.
- We can now import data from selected REDCap projects into HERON. This integration effort was piloted with a Cancer Registry.
- Medication navigation improved due to organization by RxNorm based on GCN or NDC codes instead of clinical drug level, such as pill size. 89% of medication is mapped to RxNorm and we continue to work on the remaining 11%.
- Visit details for inpatient visits provides insight into what services were assigned to a patient during their hospital stay.
- Three important new types of UHC data available
- Physician role and specialty are available to search in the UHC Visit Details folder.
- Core Measures are standardized, evidenced based measures used by UHC to evaluate hospitals. These measures were designed by the Joint Commission to permit more rigorous comparisons of hospitals.
- Numerator or denominator only case flag is added to AHRQ. See more information on AHRQ.
HERON Cimarron Contents Summary
This month, our tour of rivers and lakes in Kansas honors Cimarron River.
The HERON repository contains approximately 755 million real observations from the hospital, clinics, and research systems:
Observation | Patients | Source | Go-Live | Snapshot | Issues | |
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Demographics | 18.2M | 1.92M | ||||
KUH Billing (O2 via SMS) | 1980s | June 2012 | various* | |||
UKP Billing | 2000 | June 2012 | ||||
11.6K | 11.6K | Frontiers participant registry | Jun 2009 | June 2012 | ||
184.6K | 184.6k | Social Security Death Index | 1962 | June 2012 | ||
Diagnoses (IDC9) | 20.5M | 618K | ||||
KUH/O2/Epic | Nov 2007 | June 2012 | various* | |||
UKP Billing | 2000 | June 2012 | ||||
Medications | 100M | 263K | ||||
KUH/O2/Epic | Nov 2007 | June 2012 | various* | |||
89.8M | 250K | Medications by VA Class/Clinical? Dose Form (DRAFT) | Nov 2007 | June 2012 | various* | |
Nursing Observations | 491M | ? | ||||
KUH/O2/Epic | Nov 2007 | June 2012 | various* | |||
Lab Results | 75.8M | 268K | ||||
KUH/O2/Epic | 2003 | June 2012 | various* | |||
Procedures (CPT) | 10.1M | 555K | ||||
UKP Billing | 2000 | June 2012 | ||||
Specimens | 31.3K | 3.06K | ||||
KUMC Biospecimen Repository | ? | June 2012 | ||||
Visit Details | 2.24M | |||||
KUH/O2/Epic | Nov 2007 | June 2012 | ||||
Cancer Cases | 9.3M | 63.8K | ||||
KUH Cancer Registry | 1950s | June 2012 | labels* | |||
Hospital Quality Metrics | 3.90M | 56.9K | ||||
University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) | Q4 2008 | June 2012 | ||||
Triple Negative Breast Cancer Registry (BRCA) | 15.9K | 123 | ||||
REDCap | July 2011 | June 2012 | ||||
All | 755M |
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
Outstanding Problems/Defects/Issues
Ticket | Summary | Keywords |
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#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 |