1. SHARP: Secondary Use Project 1: Data Normalization
Health Standards - ASU BMI
CG Chute
SHARP: Secondary Use Project 1: Data Normalization
Christopher G. Chute, MD DrPH
Mayo Clinic
SHARPNfest Rochester
21 June 2010
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2. Background
Data liquidity requires transformation of non standard patient data into comparable consistent formats
In practice, clinical data and provider information is unstructured and non-standard
Overall Aim: Develop an open-source, dynamically configurable services framework to transform health information into standards-conforming, comparable, and consistent data
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3. Project 1 - Clinical Data Normalization CG Chute, MD DrPH
Build generalizable data normalization pipeline
Semantic normalization annotators involving LexEVS
Establish a globally available resource for health terminologies and value sets
Establish and expand modular library of normalization algorithms

4. Support mapping into canonical value sets
LexGrid
Consistent and standardized common model to support large-scale vocabulary use and adoption
Support mapping into canonical value sets
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5. Semantics and Syntax
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