Table 1.
Integrated data repository data domain categories
| Domain | Descriptions | Data Type | # of Eligible Featuresa |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALERTS | Includes drug interaction, dose warnings, drug interactions, medication administration warnings, and best practice alerts | Binary | 1230 |
| ALLERGY | Includes documented allergies and reactions | Binary | 60 |
| DEMOGRAPHICS | Basic demographics such as age, gender, race, etc., as well as their reachability, and some geographical information | Binary/ Numeric | 10 |
| DIAGNOSES | Organized using ICD9 and ICD10 hierarchies. Intelligent Medical Objects interface terms are grouped to ICD9 and ICD10 levels. Diagnosis resources are further separated by source of the assignment (eg, EMR, professional billing, technical billing, registry). | Binary | 4769 |
| HISTORY | Contains family, social (ie, smoking), and surgical history from the EMR | Binary/ Numeric | 155 |
| LABORATORY TESTS | Results of a variety of laboratory tests, including cardiology and microbiology findings. Note that the actual lab values are used in modeling, if available (excluding serum creatinine, eGFR, ACR). | Binary/ Numeric | 1745 |
| MEDICATIONS | Includes dispensing, administration, prescriptions, as well as home medication reconciliation at KUH, grouped at semantic clinical drug form (SCDF) or semantic clinical brand form (SCBF) level. Medication resources are further separated by types of medication activity. | Binary | 1240 |
| NAACCR (ABRIDGED) | Includes information from the North American Association Central Cancer Registry translated to layman terms43 | Binary | 151 |
| NCDR | Includes information from the Cath PCI National Cardiovascular Data Registry44 | Binary | 253 |
| NTDS | Includes information entered into the National Trauma Registry45 | Binary | 175 |
| PROCEDURES | Includes CPT professional services and inpatient ICD9 billing procedure codes | Binary | 571 |
| ORDERS | Includes physician orders for non-medications such as culture and imaging orders from the EMR | Binary | 1091 |
| REPORTS | Includes observations from physician notes authored in the EMR using templates that collect structured data elements | Binary | 1081 |
| VIZIENT | (formerly UHC) Includes both billing classifications such as Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG), comorbidities, discharge placement, LOS, and national quality metrics | Binary | 696 |
| VISIT DETAILS | Includes visit types, vital signs collected at the visit, discharge disposition, and clinical services providing care from both EMR and billing | Binary/ Numeric | 480 |
a
These are not all distinct concepts from the entire HERON system, but only the total number of distinct features that had ever been recorded for at least 1 patient in the study cohort.