Kaiser gives 'magic' of its technology to speed move to digital healthcare

OAKLAND, CA – Kaiser Permanente is donating its Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT) for open access to help boost the country's transition from paper-based medical records to electronic health records.

CMT underpins the Kaiser Permanente electronic health record called KP HealthConnect.

Terms are captured within the EHR and turned into terms that patients can understand, Kaiser officials explained at the Sept. 29 announcement of its gift.  For example, MI (for myocardial infarction) turns in heart attack, or HT translates to hypertension. David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator of health IT, said,  "It's like a continuous translation of different languages."

The donation of the Kaiser-developed technology would enable any vendor to incorporate the capability into their products and make them available to their clients.

Kaiser Permanente is donating CMT, the results of years of work at Kaiser, to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) for U.S. distribution through the Department of Health and Human Services so that all healthcare providers - large and small - can benefit from the translation-enabling technology. 

 

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