What is the Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare

IBM Knowledge Accelerator for Healthcare

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

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The comprehensive, multilayer business glossary 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 IBM 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.

In addition the IBM 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 IBM 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.

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

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.

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 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

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