{"id":68,"date":"2009-04-28T15:45:47","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/?p=68"},"modified":"2009-04-28T15:52:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T20:52:11","slug":"healthcare-informatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/2009\/04\/28\/healthcare-informatics\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Informatics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments to<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.syleum.com\/2009\/03\/17\/healthcare-data-model\/\">The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alexander Scarlat MD<br \/>\nApril 18, 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u201cData modeling is not optional\u201d (Data Modeling Essentials by Simsion &#038; Witt)<\/p>\n<p>Great article and a correct diagnosis of one of the main problems of the Healthcare Informatics industry.<br \/>\nI am a physician with a degree in computer sciences currently employed as Chief Medical Informatics Officer with a medium sized hospital in the USA. We are now in the process of setting up a clinical data repository to store and present the users with laboratory results, imaging links and pharmacy orders on top of the diagnosis and procedures. I found out repeatedly that vendors are not willing to share the database schema of their products with the excuse it is a proprietary document. Unfortunately, many times this is just an excuse for a complete lack of such a schema. Even worse -the conceptual diagram, logical and physical data model is either non existent, poorly defined or kept in someone\u2019s vault. The analogy that comes to mind is trying to build a house without a blueprint or with one that is kept in the builder\u2019s vault.<br \/>\nI strongly recommend anyone in the HIT industry to read the book I have quoted above. I have no doubt it will save millions of $, mountains of users \u2018 frustrations and most probably a couple of lives.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the comments to The Data Model That Nearly Killed Me Alexander Scarlat MD April 18, 2009 \u201cData modeling is not optional\u201d (Data Modeling Essentials by Simsion &#038; Witt) Great article and a correct diagnosis of one of the main problems of the Healthcare Informatics industry. I am a physician with a degree in computer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gentropy.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}