Masarie Consulting...in your own terms

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It is critical for your organization to have a coherent, sustainable terminology strategy. Terminology is the building block upon which all other clinical decision support, outcomes research, quality control, and better patient care is based. We can help you develop a terminology vision and then identify areas in which short to medium term progress can be made to achieve wins.

Specifically, we can...

• Help your organization articulate its short, medium, and long term needs for a terminology and help develop a solution that allows it to achieve its goals.

• Help your organization answer the following questions:
• Should we build our own terminology or use a vendor provided terminology?
• Which standard terminologies should we map to?
• How should we maintain our terminology? What tools do we need?
• How do we handle updates?
• Will ICD-9 satisfy our terminology needs?

• How best can our users access the terminology—searching, browsing?

• Help your organization understand the relationship between terminology and the underlying clinical data model for which it is used to code data.