Standardized coding (SNOMED and LOINC) enables practitioners, health systems, and payers to have common codes that are associated with disease states, lab procedures, diagnostic and treatment elements. This facilitates reimbursement by providers as well as enabling data to be stored as per a universally accepted taxonomy, and these codes facilitate analytics by ensuring that data are common between databases and systems.
Through our mapping of every term to a standardized code (SNOMED, LOINC) and the use of standardized PROMS instruments, variance in data collection is minimized as our Sets dictate which code or PROM question to pull from the corresponding source system at the provider using the Set. Data quality suffers when there is variance in interpretation in which data element to pull from the source system, and the mapping to these codes eliminates this possibility of variance.
The IT-Ready Sets serve as an IT accelerator to reduce the burden and cost associated with data collection. It removes the need to research or interpret which codes to pull from which systems as this comes mapped for the informatics/technology analyst to pull for use when creating dashboards, or performing risk adjustments, or any sort of analytics or visualizations.
The IT-Ready Sets serve as an accelerator for data teams, researchers, or clinical units to reduce the burden and cost associated with data collection. These resources remove the need to research or interpret which codes to pull from which systems as this comes mapped for the informatics/technology analyst to pull for use when creating dashboards, or performing risk adjustments, or any sort of analytics or visualizations.
The IT-Ready Sets serve as a map for researchers or analysts, or technologists to know which data to pull and how those data relate for analysis of patient related outcomes. The pulling of their data and storing into the recommended JSON or FHIR formats enable interoperability of the data file with other systems for upload or sharing of like data with other researchers and/or institutions.
The IT-Ready Sets ensure the common data elements are enabled to be collected without variance. In the case of FHIR, IT-Ready Sets also provide for a unified transport layer of the data from one FHIR endpoint server to another.
The PDF versions do not contain the mappings to SNOMED and LOINC and do not indicate the JSON nor FHIR formats. The PDF versions require human interpretation of what data to pull from the EHR or PROMS without the machine-readable mapping and formats.
SNOMED and LOINC are the code sets mapped within the IT-Ready version of the sets. Their importance lies in their global ubiquitous use in healthcare and healthcare research. For more information check out the information at this page: https://wemedoo.com/snomed-ct-loinc-and-icd-10/#:~:text=Healthcare%20professionals%20use%20SNOMED%20to,resource%20with%20extensive%20medical%20content.
The PDF versions will still be available free of charge from ICHOM for registered users of the site. Those interested in accessing ICHOM products and provide basic information via an online form. Licensing fees for Sets may apply for commercial entities and commercial use, but ICHOM endeavors to support global use especially for research purposes, clinical application in low-resource settings and by patient communities. All contributors to ICHOM Set Development, Primary Subset and Set update initiatives are eligible for open access to Set products.
