I’m wondering if it would make sense to have a screen sharing session so that 
we can look at a few use cases where we’re having issues mapping into the 
terminology.

On a related note,  the ACT project has an rxNorm terminology that is fairly 
similar to the current GPC medication hierarchy, with the addition of 
ingredients.  For UTSW,  this allows me to place the "ZOLOFT ORAL” (with it’s 
multiple GCN’s) into the ingredient folder so that someone could search for 
“Sertraline” and get both “ZOLOFT  ORAL” and the more specific child terms, vs 
having to select multiple leaf/folders and dragging them over.  It may be 
something we(GPC) want to look at adopting, instead of using our own.

It doesn’t completely solve my issue because I don’t know which GCNs are at the 
correct level, but if we limited to ingredient level,  it looks very accurate.

Phillip


From: <Apathy>, Nate <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at 2:37 PM
To: Russ Waitman <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: RE: Medication Mapping Issue

Hi all,

We’ve been exploring a similar issue with medication mapping to the central 
RxCUI ontology proposed by KUMC. Though we’re not an Epic site, we are in the 
middle of transitioning from NDC to RxCUI/RxNORM as our primary medication 
terminology in order to align with GPC. We’ve done several mappings using 
different versions of mapping content from NDC to RxCUI, and our closest match 
(to the ontology) merits about 2,300 matches with the RxCUI ontology out on 
Babel, which contains about 5,500 RxCUI codes. We have 11,000 unique RxCUI 
codes from our mappings using the USNLM mapping content, so we’re not getting a 
good amount of those represented with the current GPC RxCUI ontology. The real 
kicker is that those 2,300 matches only represent about 1.5% of the total 
volume of medication data that we have, so while it is about half of the 
ontology, it’s significantly less representative of the total amount of 
potential data that could be represented if all of our codes were matched in 
the ontology.

We’re wondering if the ontology is at a specific level of granularity that we 
haven’t accommodated in our mappings, which is making our terms misalign with 
the precise codes used in the GPC RxCUI ontology. Any help would be greatly 
appreciated!

Thanks for raising this question, Phillip!

Nate Apathy
Solution Manager: i2b2, Cerner Research

From: 
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russ Waitman
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 1:29 PM
To: Bonnie Westra
Cc: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Medication Mapping Issue

Somewhat similar to Nathan’s experience incorporating the MedEx NLP work for 
meds here in KC to RxNorm that is documented in the HERON code and 
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Russ

On Feb 18, 2015, at 12:46 PM, Bonnie Westra 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


Using the NLM app for mapping medication data to RxNorm, we developed a set of 
rules when there was no NDC or Medispan code available for mapping.
The bottom line is that when there is missing data, we ended up with a more 
generic RxNorm codes.  When we had sufficient details, we were able to map to a 
more specific code.

Bonnie

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Associate Professor, University of Minnesota,
School of Nursing & Institute for Health Informatics
Director, Center for Nursing Informatics
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:18 PM, Phillip Reeder 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
We have medications in our clarity_medication table that are not as specific as 
the GPC Medication hierarchy.  For example, we have a medication called “ZOLOFT 
ORAL”   This has multiple GCNs associated with it for the 25MG, 50MG, and 100MG 
versions, and the oral concentrate version.  And the current medication mapping 
code adds the medications under all of the versions.

I’m guessing we have this issue because we have been running Epic at UTSW for 
10+ years.  Do any other GPC epic sites have a similar issue?

Thanks,
Phillip


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