About Symedical

SYMEDICAL® is a Clinical Terminology Architecture that allows you to increase the value of clinical terminology. The Coordination Engine automatically maps, in real time, disparate data to common terminology sets that can be understood by systems receiving data from other systems. It can work with standard, proprietary, structured free text and home-grown terminologies. Symedical also learns from the transactions it processes during the mapping process and when a term is manually mapped. By increasing the knowledge it has about the terminology, it can improve the mapping efficiency. In fact, Symedical provides tools to examine the effectiveness of the map and a communication framework that can alert when terms received though the transaction processor cannot be mapped or if the map efficiency falls below a specified level. Symedical supports Unicode languages (such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese) and Latin 1 languages (such as English, Danish, German, and Spanish).

Symedical Support Features

The following features support Symedical’s advanced terminology management functionality. If you are interested in learning more about these services, please contact Clinical Architecture Customer Service at support@clinicalarchitecture.com.

Symedical Runtime

Symedical runtime is an API that integrates Symedical’s advanced terminology and distribution architecture into your system. Through standard service calls, catalog searching, mapping, and distribution functionality is made available to help with the processing and management of a large amount of data.

The Terminology runtime service delivers advanced search and transcoding capabilities. By utilizing how Symedical Service processes terminologies, the search functionality has the ability to match word fragments to code descriptions, return a limited set of possible matches, and inform the user of additional information needed to arrive at a fully specified code.

The Transcoding runtime service leverages a collection of lexical, logical, and domain-specific algorithms that are used to map source terms from different sites to a standard term. It is ideal for semantic interoperability between applications. Symedical monitors transaction channels, transcodes terms when a mapping is found, and dynamically maps new or changed terms in real time. When a candidate cannot be found, it alerts an administrator for resolution. Once resolved, the Symedical runtime mapping services are updated to reflect the change.

The Distribution runtime service centralizes, automates, and monitors the distribution of Symedical content to other Symedical repositories, including Symedical runtime’s Terminology service.

Symedical Editorial

The Symedical Editorial service is an API that allows the implementer to programmatically perform common editorial tasks, most often done through the Symedical client application. Examples of these tasks include the creation and cloning of core catalogs, maps, sites, and channels, as well as adding terms to a core catalog.

Content added through the Editorial service can be viewed/managed in the Symedical client applications noted below:

  • Catalog Manager

  • Map Manager

  • Site Management

  • Organization Management

Symedical FHIR Terminology Services

The Symedical FHIR Terminology services are Clinical Architecture’s implementation of the HL7 FHIR Terminology Specification for healthcare data exchange. The Symedical FHIR Terminology services provide FHIR-compliant access to Symedical terminology, ontology, and map assets. The Symedical content accessible to the Symedical FHIR Terminology services is configurable, so you determine the content you wish to expose to the services. Use the services to:

  • Perform code (term) lookups and validations.

  • Retrieve (expand) value sets.

  • Access mappings between code systems or value sets.

  • Determine hierarchical relationships between codes.

The Symedical FHIR Terminology services are based on commonly understood web standards (REST, XML, JSON, and HTTP) and support the following version of the FHIR specification:

Symedical Adaptive Workflow

Adaptive Workflow is a content authoring web-based application that enables master data management of Symedical terminologies remotely. Within Adaptive Workflow, users can access and maintain term information, such as enterprise data, relationships, and mapping targets within a workflow adapter. Workflow adapters are set up by your administrator in Symedical. Changes made in the Adaptive Workflow may be reflected in the Symedical core application.

Symedical Waypoint

Symedical Waypoint is a web-based application that supports the creation and maintenance of maps from a remote location. In essence, it is designed to assist in mapping, and facilitate the publication of map content to a Symedical runtime environment. Symedical Waypoint can be connected to any number of repositories and enables users to perform vital map maintenance without the Symedical client personal computer software.

Symedical Viewpoint

Symedical Viewpoint enables you to view and explore various standard clinical terminologies (such as RxNorm™, LOINC®, ICD-10, and so on), taxonomies, and mapped code sets from your Symedical environment for the purpose of organizing and exchanging information. Within the browser, you can navigate to a specific term to access the term’s details, such as aliases and attributes as well as associated mappings and relationships.

Administration Console

The Administration Console is a local stand-alone executable that allows an administrator to start and stop Symedical services and application pools.