Health language enterprise solution improves and streamlines data normalization for enhanced interoperability and more accurate population health analysis.
The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today the release of a new enterprise terminology management platform — the most powerful currently available in healthcare — allowing organizations to significantly improve system integration, interoperability and data analysis.
The Health Language® Enterprise Terminology Management Platform helps healthcare organizations maximize investments made in data warehouses, analytics engines and population health management tools by standardizing and normalizing clinical, claims and administrative data from across disparate systems. Additionally, the platform can be leveraged by health information technology vendors to enhance and expand their product offerings.
The Health Language Enterprise Terminology Management Platform includes the LEAP Map Manager module, a tool that supports advanced clinical decision support, predictive analytics and quality reporting by allowing healthcare organizations to leverage clinical and claims data for more accurate and robust analysis and reporting.
LEAP Map Manager enhances data normalization and analysis with the industry’s most sophisticated algorithms, over 1 million clinically curated synonyms and an up-to-date content library of more than 180 standard and proprietary terminologies. It also features enhanced collaboration and workflow management tools that streamline workflow for IT, data warehouse and quality Improvement departments and ensure more consistent coding and terminology management across healthcare organizations with multiple locations. Real-time mapping tools include the ability for users to collaboratively draft and review maps and then publish approved maps to the Language Engine where they can be accessed runtime via a REST API.
“Data integrity supported by a foundation of semantic interoperability is critical to healthcare organizations’ ability to perform meaningful analytics, accelerate population health initiatives and proactively identify gaps in care,” said David A. Del Toro, President and CEO of Clinical Software Solutions at Wolters Kluwer. “The release of the enhanced and fully-integrated Health Language platform demonstrates our ongoing commitment to delivering a complete terminology management package, allowing healthcare organizations to unlock the value and power of data for improved care delivery.”
Key benefits for health plans, providers, and heath IT vendors
Providers
Physician-friendly point-of-care documentation
The provider-friendly terminology content library includes over 1.3 M synonyms, acronyms, and abbreviations, mapped to industry standards. This allows clinicians to easily search and document patient encounters in alignment with how a physician speaks and maps to the correct ICD-10 code, resulting in more streamlined workflows, reduced administrative burdens, and improved physician satisfaction.
Clinical data accuracy
Health Language enables downstream data accuracy through the Clinical Documentation tools included in the Point of Care Accuracy Solution. This tool ensures patient encounters are accurately documented, always utilizing up-to-date codes from the world’s leading standards bodies.
Optimized workflows
Health Language software is directly integrated into existing EHR systems, enabling seamless search and documentation workflows and clinical data extraction capabilities that eliminate duplicate documentation steps to reduce administrative burden.
Health IT vendors
Optimized documentation workflows
Health Language software is directly integrated into existing EHR systems, enabling seamless search and documentation workflows and clinical data extraction capabilities that eliminate duplicate documentation steps to reduce administrative burden.
Provider-friendly terminology
The provider-friendly terminology content library includes over 1.3 M synonyms, acronyms, and abbreviations, mapped to industry standards.
Accurate code documentation
Health Language’s embedded intelligence guides physicians to the most specific diagnosis code fulfilling payer requirements for seamless claims processing and optimized reimbursement.
Health plans
Clinical data accuracy
Built-in notifications alert you about content updates and ensure the most accurate therapeutic code groups are reflected in your healthcare plan minimizing disruptions to claims processing and payment.
Robust tool for call centers
Code Explorer by Health Language is one browser-based search tool that gives results the way a call center and members talk. The code explorer call center tool allows call centers to easily access the needed information to answer billing and eligibility questions, conduct prior authorizations, and process claims easily.
Solutions
