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A very useful tool to have in your Data Repository toolbox is a Date Dimension table—which is a physical database table with one row per date from, say, 1900 through the end of 2499, and key elements pre-calculated about that date. This is useful for many data…
It may not be obvious when working in SQL Server Data Tools or Business Intelligence Development Studio, but when you add datasets to a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Report, they get an implied order of execution. Say you have a MEDITECH EDM dashboard, and it has…
Most, if not all of us involved in US healthcare are familiar with the National Provider Identifier (NPI), which is a 10-digit number starting with a 1 or a 2. Each NPI uniquely identifies a specific provider. The provider can be a person or organization. NPIs are…
Note From Iatric Systems: Thank you very much to Carl Smith, CIO of King’s Daughters Medical Center, for sharing his thoughts with us, and our blog readers, about protecting patient privacy. Brookhaven, Miss., a town with a population of about 12,000 residents, is where I call home….
Like ICD-10 diagnosis and procedure codes, LOINC codes offer a platform-independent way to identify medical laboratory observations. Within MEDITECH’s LAB module, LOINC codes are set up as a “nomenclature”—a code describing another code—or in this case, a LOINC standard code is mapped to each LAB test in…
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