Clinical Solutions partners with Health Language Inc. for standardised coding
13 November 2008: The partnership will see the HLI Language Engine® integrated into the clinical decision element of Clinical Solutions triage applications, including IntefleCS™ Telephone Triage and IntefleCS™ Face to Face.
Standardised medical terminology has been identified as a critical element to ensuring advanced interoperability among healthcare IT applications. This contributes to improved patient safety, superior clinician decision-making capabilities and rapid reimbursement.
Commenting on the agreement, Richard Craven, director at Clinical Solutions says, “HLI is a pioneer in healthcare information and communications technology (ICT) and terminology. This partnership will assist Clinical Solutions in providing innovative, progressive solutions for its customers around the world. The role of standardised coding is critical to the ability for healthcare IT applications across the globe to work together ensuring that risk is minimised and patient safety improved. This will be a critical feature in our upcoming release of applications for the urgent care market, in line with Lord Darzi’s initiative to bring care closer to the patient”
The HLI Language Engine provides a tool for healthcare organisations, IT vendors and government agencies to effectively localise, update and disseminate over 80 controlled, licensed healthcare terminologies, mappings and other healthcare terminology-related content issued by a growing number of standards bodies including SNOMED-CT®, ICD-9, ICD-10 and LOINC®.
According to Marc Horowitz, HLI’s senior vice president, “We are proud to deploy HLI’s Language Engine within Clinical Solutions’ comprehensive solutions suite that is recognised throughout the world for its ability to enhance patient care while efficiently managing resources. This partnership ensures that Clinical Solutions will provide clinicians with automatic, real-time updates and mappings from all major standards bodies and terminologies as well as free text interpretation to ensure true interoperability, accuracy and standardisation between hospitals, regions and countries.”
