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Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Determine structured data requirements in a given healthcare application • Discuss the differences between structured and unstructured data • Display an understanding of the layout of selected structured terminology systems used in healthcare • Select the appropriate terminology system for a given healthcare requirement • Analyze the components of structured terminologies currently used in healthcare • Summarize the development and evolution of SNOMED CT as a comprehensive terminology • Explain legislative requirements for use of structured terminologies in healthcare • Develop strategies to manage terminology changes in electronic health records • Use UMLS Knowledge Source tools to analyze terminology systems • Examine the processes by which structured terminologies in use were developed • Using ICD, practice coding select medical diagnoses and procedures • Explain the uses of healthcare terminologies in reporting statistical data, morbidity, and mortality • Describe use of ICD in development of healthcare finance and reimbursement • Compare and contrast development and uses of medical, nursing, and allied health terminologies • Explain the differences between hierarchical and flat terminology systems