title: Using knowledge rules for pharmacy mapping.
abstract: The 3M Health Information Systems (HIS) Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD) is used to encode and structure patient medication data for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) of the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA). HDD Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are responsible for initial and maintenance mapping of disparate, standalone medication master files from all 100 DoD host sites worldwide to a single concept-based vocabulary, to accomplish semantic interoperability. To achieve higher levels of automation, SMEs began defining a growing set of knowledge rules. These knowledge rules were implemented in a pharmacy mapping tool, which enhanced consistency through automation and increased mapping rate by 29%.
authors.affiliation: 3M Health Information Systems, Murray, Utah, USA.
authors.forename: Shaun C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Shakib
authors.forename: Chengjian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Che
authors.forename: Lee Min
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Lau
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005569:Formularies as Topic / Q000145:classification*; D051188:Knowledge Bases; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010604:Pharmacy; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled