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Anndee Major Assignment 4 #1 Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a system that provides a process to integrate biomedical concepts from multiple sources to show relationships (LaTour & Eichenwald, 2013). The idea behind UMLS was to enable computers to understand biomedical meaning and allow them to recover and incorporate information from incongruent electronic sources (Humphreys & Tuttle, 2022). UMLS offers a major contribution to the research sector for healthcare because it can range from databases of gene sequences to biomedical ontologies (Bodenreider, 2004). Healthcare is a complex organization in its management, sales, procedures, and terminology making it hard to keep up with physically and digitally. That is why the idea behind UMLS is important because it allows technology to keep up with its complexity. UMLS is of interest to HIM professionals because it includes items such as ICD-9-CM, CPT, and the Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) (LaTour & Eichenwald, 2013). UMLS can achieve interoperability between CPT, ICD-9-CM, and HCPCS generated through the documentation method of patient care that is coded into subject areas with a distinct set of interactions called ontologies (Reitz, Hall, Shinall, Shireman, & Sliverstein 2021). UMLS also was able to compare classifications that included ICD that showed a confirmation of differences in content and structure as a reflection of the different uses showing that no single system meets all needs (Humphreys & Tuttle, 2022). That finding highlights the need for systems such as UMLS so information can be interchanged throughout providers and networks for successful patient care.

#2 The need for Health information exchange (HIE) came about when problems such as needing to support patient care across changes of care and perform a long-term evaluation of care (Kuperman, 2011). These problems highlighted the need for standards and distinctiveness towards patient records that could move throughout providers. HIE has efforts that have been developed due to its goal of trying to move toward information about a patient that has been gathered throughout with complete data about the patient accessible at any time during the care (LaTour & Eichenwald, 2013). HIE has a goal that is patient-specific and can allow a reduction in emergency usage and costs as well as increase patient (Shapiro, Mostashari, Hripcsak, Soulakis, & Kuperman, 2011). Ways HIE can achieve patient safety is through improved laboratory, radiology, and public health processing, as well as communication between providers and patients (Kaelber & Bates, 2007). HIE is a new concept that must have policies and concepts instilled so research and patient safety can be achieved correctly in terms of patient privacy and confidentially (LaTour & Eichenwald, 2013). #3 a. The inpatient census equals 155 patients because I took the number of patients in the hospital, census, (150) and added the 20 admitted and subtracted it by the 15 who were discharged giving me 155. b. The daily inpatient census equals 157 because I took the census which is 150 and added the 22 admitted and subtracted the 15 discharged giving me 155 and then added the number of days (2) giving me 157. c. The inpatient service days equal 157 because the inpatient service days are equal to the daily inpatient census.

References Bodenreider, O. (2004). The unified medical language system (UMLS): integrating biomedical terminology. Nucleic acids research , 32 (suppl_1), D267-D270. Humphreys, B. L., & Tuttle, M. S. (2022). Something new and different: The unified medical language system. Information Services & Use , 42 (1), 95-106. Kaelber, D. C., & Bates, D. W. (2007). Health information exchange and patient safety. Journal of biomedical informatics , 40 (6), S40-S45. Kuperman, G. J. (2011). Health-information exchange: why are we doing it, and what are we doing?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , 18 (5), 678-682. LaTour, K. M., Eichenwald, S. (2013). Health Information Management: Concepts, Principles, and Practice, Fourth Edition: Vol. 4th ed. AHIMA Press . Accessed November 13, 2023. https://search-ebscohost-com.lsus.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx? direct=true&db=e020mna&AN=667492&site=eds-live Reitz, K. M., Hall, D. E., Shinall Jr, M. C., Shireman, P. K., & Silverstein, J. C. (2021). Using the unified medical language system to expand the operative stress score–first use case. Journal of Surgical Research , 268 , 552-561. Shapiro, J. S., Mostashari, F., Hripcsak, G., Soulakis, N., & Kuperman, G. (2011). Using health information exchange to improve public health. American journal of public health , 101 (4), 616-623.

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