Information services provider Wolters Kluwer Health (WK Health), US, has announced that ICA has selected Health Language to support its health information exchange (HIE) platform. Health Language medical terminology management software and services will enable ICA, a provider of interoperability technology that enables care management and HIE, to create longitudinal patient records and enhance reporting and analytics across entire populations.
ICA's interoperability platform connects providers across the continuum of care through a series of modules that support clinical communications and information exchange. The company is preparing to launch an informatics module, CareAlign Insight, which houses a central data repository. Health Language helps support this initiative by providing a dual-engine that, in collaboration with Clinithink, transforms both free text and disparate data into standardised terminologies.
ICA selected Health Language for its turnkey terminology management solution, professional services and customised mappings. By integrating Health Language software with its platform, ICA will enable its provider customers to de-duplicate data from disparate sources by automatically mapping it to standardised terminologies; leverage comprehensive, longitudinal patient records for enhancing patient care; receive immediate alerts of unusual activity around both individual patients and patient populations; and achieve population health management goals through robust analytics and reporting across communities.
The dual-engine, developed in 2012, is a culmination of the Health Language advanced Language Engine which normalises disparate data through automated mapping and Clinithink's CLiX engine which translates narrative text into standardised codes.
