About the Speaker: Michael Lincoln MD
Dr. Lincoln is responsible for the enterprise reference terminology strategy of the National Health Data Repository project at the Veteran's Administration.

Abstract:
Veterans Health Affairs has undertaken an "Enterprise Terminology Services" project aimed at standardizing all clinical terms used in documenting the VHA electronic health record, called VistA, now used at over 2000 VHA points of care nationwide.  As part of this project, the ETS team has put a Terminology Development and Services environment into place.  For example, this tooling has been used to create the National Drug File Reference Terminology and is now being used to integrate Food and Drug Administration data flows into the "New Term Rapid Turnaround" system for NDF-RT.  Lincoln will discuss the Enterprise Terminology effort, especially regarding  strategies to move efficiently from a legacy terminology system to the target health information system and terminology.  The discussion will touch upon the terminology distribution mechanisms being put into place in VHA, application programming interfaces to the terminology (and how those services use the semantic relationships contained therein to advantage), and the interaction of Enterprise Terminology with the incipient VHA Health Data Repository."