DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Health Language, Inc. (HLI), the global leader in healthcare terminology management, today announced that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has selected its Language Engine (LE) to automate the mapping of patient data collected in ClinicStation, MD Anderson’s custom-built electronic medical record (EMR) that integrates clinical and research data. The adoption of LE supports MD Anderson’s long-term goals of incorporating natural language processing in its EMR and achieving data interoperability within and outside the enterprise.
“Because we specialize in cancer care, our terminology challenges can be much more fine-grained than those found in other health environments,” said Dr. Lynn Vogel, chief information officer and vice president at MD Anderson. “The advanced standardization capabilities of the Language Engine enable us to face these challenges head-on as we position ourselves toward discovering better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.”
MD Anderson partnered with HLI because of its expertise in healthcare terminology and strong offering of commercially-supported terminology management tools. As a result of this partnership, MD Anderson is able to:
- Leverage a standard terminology for data exchange between internal clinical and research systems;
- Simplify the data reporting process with standards organizations such as the National Cancer Institute (NCI); and
- Promote interoperability between organizations across the enterprise for collaborative care and treatment.
The terms of this agreement also provide MD Anderson with access to HLI’s LExScape mapping tool, Web services and a range of standard terminology codes. Through these services, the cancer center is able to map all of their local codes to a variety of standards across the industry.
“At Health Language, we admire the advanced research and clinical capabilities of MD Anderson, and we are pleased that the Language Engine now plays an important role in the further development of ClinicStation,” said George Schwend, CEO and president of HLI. “MD Anderson understands how to prepare for the future of cancer medicine, and we look forward to working closely with them.”
About MD Anderson
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston ranks as one of the world's most respected centers focused on cancer patient care, research, education and prevention. MD Anderson is one of only 40 comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. For eight of the past 10 years, including 2011, MD Anderson has ranked No. 1 in cancer care in "America's Best Hospitals," a survey published annually in U.S. News & World Report.
About Health Language, Inc.
Denver-based Health Language, Inc. (HLI) develops and delivers state-of-the art software solutions that automatically incorporate medical vocabulary and coding standards into healthcare information technology applications. HLI’s Language Engine (LE) allows centralized access to medical terminology standards and generates mappings to create a common pool of standardized codes and concepts that enhance patient safety, facilitate clinical outcomes analysis and accelerate reimbursement. It also provides standards for modeling, storing, updating and distributing information consistently for interoperability between hospitals, regions and countries. For more information, visit www.healthlanguage.com or call 720-940-2900.