I'm interested.

Phillip

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> On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Apathy,Nate <nate.apa...@cerner.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Jim,
>
> Yes, that's correct. We have a conversion table that holds the necessary 
> conversions from local units to the standard units as dictated by the 
> metadataxml and LOINC. Happy to discuss as well - I'll send another note off 
> this chain to organize that unless it would be valuable to discuss on the Dev 
> call.
>
> The March QA is next on our priority list, and after that we will be able to 
> work on the SNOMED test. I don't anticipate starting on that work until next 
> week at the earliest.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nate Apathy
> Solution Manager: i2b2 | nate.apa...@cerner.com | 816.201.2785
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Campbell, James R [mailto:campb...@unmc.edu]
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 11:09 PM
> To: Apathy,Nate
> Cc: <gpc-dev@listserv.kumc.edu>; Hickman, Hubert B; Campbell, Walter S; 
> Munns, Michael B
> Subject: Re: [gpc-informatics] #158: usable view of LOINC lab terms
>
> Nate
> Yes, I am referring to metadata agreed from H2.  When we rolled out 
> metadataxml, we had to tweak some units but I matched those reported in our 
> i2b2 to UCUM reference and tailored to our lab reports.  Are you saying that 
> you are comparing Regenstrief to local us=nits and compiling a lexicon of 
> conversions into the metadataxml?  I would be interested to discuss by call 
> at your convenience
>
> ETA for SNOMED test load?
> Jim
>
> James R. Campbell MD
> campb...@unmc.edu
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>> On Mar 30, 2015, at 4:03 PM, "Apathy,Nate" <nate.apa...@cerner.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Can you clarify what you mean by the "GPC lab metadata"? Are you referring 
>> to the CMH: LOINC hierarchy on Babel that we decided upon during Hackathon 
>> II? We are working on a project now to normalize our units, as coded LOINC 
>> is a poor predictor of the actual units used in the lab setting for those 
>> tests. We haven't developed a script to build metadataxml; rather we have a 
>> reference table with 27,864 LOINC codes and their associated metadataxml per 
>> the LOINC standard units in the multiaxial hierarchy. We do a lookup on that 
>> table to pull the metadata in to our client lab ontologies, but as you can 
>> probably surmise by now we ran in to a lot of issues initially with 
>> mismatched units that made the metadataxml basically useless unless the 
>> units matched exactly. That is what precipitated the unit normalization 
>> project. There are several upstream data source issues that depend on other 
>> teams and need to take place before that project can be completed, so we are 
>> targeting the creation of 
 t
> hat curated LOINC ontology with standard units by the end of April.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Nate Apathy
>> Solution Manager: i2b2 | nate.apa...@cerner.com | 816.201.2785
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Campbell, James R [mailto:campb...@unmc.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 11:54 PM
>> To: <gpc-dev@listserv.kumc.edu>; Apathy,Nate
>> Cc: Hickman, Hubert B; Campbell, Walter S; Munns, Michael B
>> Subject: Re: [gpc-informatics] #158: usable view of LOINC lab terms
>>
>> Nate
>> So, if I understand, you had calculated or developed metadataxml for all the 
>> entries in the GPC lab metadata?  Wow, I did not understand that from 
>> Hackathon2 and we would love to get a copy of your java code to supplement 
>> our metadata browsing tools.  Did you develop a java-based computation of 
>> metadataxml from the LOINC release record?  We have considered that but have 
>> not had time.
>> I thought we might be providing an enhancement to your metadata build but I 
>> agree entirely that it seems irrelevant.
>> Jim
>>
>> James R. Campbell MD
>> campb...@unmc.edu
>> Office: 402-559-7505
>> Secretary: 402-559-7299
>> Pager: 402-888-1230
>>
>>> On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:11 PM, "GPC Informatics" <d...@madmode.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> #158: usable view of LOINC lab terms
>>> -------------------------+----------------------------
>>> Reporter:  rwaitman     |       Owner:  nateapathy
>>>   Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  assigned
>>> Priority:  major        |   Milestone:  data-domains3
>>> Component:  data-stds    |  Resolution:
>>> Keywords:               |  Blocked By:
>>> Blocking:               |
>>> -------------------------+----------------------------
>>>
>>> Comment (by nateapathy):
>>>
>>> We reviewed the metadata included in the UNMC LOINC hierarchy and
>>> found
>>> 922 with metadata XML applied. We compared those leaf terms to our
>>> current hierarchy and found 622 that overlapped with the 71,000+
>>> terms that are in our base hierarchy (the majority of which is hidden
>>> on Babel). All of our metadata XML matched the data you had for
>>> yours, only with a few semantic differences in naming conventions for tests 
>>> within the metadata panel.
>>>
>>> Since there is not a major material difference between these two sets
>>> of metadata, I'm inclined to direct the group to the information I
>>> shared in
>>> [https://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/158#comment:2
>>> 0 comment20] on this thread. That comment includes a link to the base
>>> multiaxial hierarchy from Regenstrief and the Java code we use to
>>> transform that into our base LOINC hierarchy that was agreed upon as
>>> the GPC hierarchy during Hackathon II.
>>>
>>> Let me know if there are any next steps or additional questions we
>>> need to answer or clarify before we can close this ticket.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Ticket URL:
>>> <http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/trac/Project/ticket/158#comment:28
>>>> gpc-informatics <http://informatics.gpcnetwork.org/>
>>> Greater Plains Network - Informatics
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