What is the Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare

IBM Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare

The Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare is an industry-specific vocabulary for healthcare payer and provider organizations.

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The comprehensive, multilayer business vocabulary includes thousands of terms to support the integration of payer and provider, with terms grouped by business subcategories such as care management, diagnosis, encounter, patient medication, agreement, health plan product, claim, and financial transaction.

The Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare vocabulary brings business context into an enterprise vocabulary that can be used by healthcare professionals, departmental managers, IT staff and data stewards. This drives common understanding across business operations and serves as a central knowledge base for governance best practice.

The Business Core Vocabulary areas covered in the IBM Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare are:

Business Core Vocabulary Categories in the Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare
Accounting Action Plan Agreement Allergy Assessment and Score Blood Product Business Rule Event Care Management Claim Clinical Order Clinical Trial Common Communication and Documentation Consent Diagnosis Encounter Event	Financial Transaction Genomics Group and Hierarchy Human Resources Infrastructure Item Legal Action Location Marketing Activity Measure Definition Money Item Order Party and Role Patient Administration Patient Medication Patient Registry Patient Tag	Personal Health Record Pharmacy Intervention Point of Care Device Population Procedure Provisioning Referral and Authorization Schedule and Appointment Specimen Study Supply Chain Surgery Survey Unfavorable Event Unified Standard Codes Validity Check

In addition the Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare has a broad range of pre-defined Business Performance Indicators that assist healthcare providers and payors to determine what parts are required to address key reporting and analysis requirements such as:

Clinical Analytics
Member Service
Operational Performance
Profitability
Utilization Management

For more general non-reporting coverage, the Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare also has a comprehensive set of Business Scopes that demonstrate what parts are needed to support such critical general business issues are Coverage Eligibility, Admission Discharge and Transfer, Fee Schedule, and Continuity of Care.

The Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare also include Business Scopes available for separate import and represent subsets of the overall Knowledge Accelerator content. For a description and a list of the main concepts see Healthcare Business Scopes available for separate import.

Regulations and standards are a critical part of any healthcare business and so the Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare includes a range of Industry Alignment Vocabularies directly representing such standards as BRIDG, i2b2 and FHIR. While separate vocabularies, they are also tightly mapped to the Business Core Vocabulary of healthcare terminology provided in the Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare.

The Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare includes sample Reference Data that, when customized as required, can be used as a basis for the creation of additional data classes. They cover a wide variety of values including allergies, care plan, claims, contract coverage, medical devices and administration, observations, requests and many more.

Combined, this set of integrated components produce the extensive healthcare business language needed to underpin a range of key capabilities such as the Data Governance, DataOps, Data Discovery, and self-service Business Intelligence.

For more information on Knowledge Accelerators visit https://www.ibm.com/cloud/knowledge-accelerators.