Application of Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) to Standardize Pediatric Drug Data

S. M. Shamimul Hasan, Greeshma Agasthya, Daniel Santel, Surbhi Bhatnagar, Ian Goethert, Tracy Glauser, John Pestian

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Abstract

Pediatric Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain drug/medication data. Despite the importance of standardizing drug data to identify drug class information and enable interoperability between computer systems, sometimes no biomedical vocabulary is used, and therefore the data is not standardized. This paper employed UMLS vocabularies to standardize Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) EHR drug data to use it build models for pediatric mental health trajectories. We present an approach that identifies a UMLS Concept Unique Identifier (CUI) for a drug for the scenarios when the RxNorm code is available, and also for when it is not available. We employed an offline UMLS database to identify UMLS CUI for a drug when the RxNorm code was available. We used UMLS API and a fuzzy string matching approach to determine UMLS CUI for a drug when the RxNorm code was not available. Our early results demonstrate that drug data can be standardized using the UMLS vocabulary and this approach is helpful for anomaly detection.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages753-755
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9798350302639
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Event11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023 - Houston, United States
Duration: Jun 26 2023Jun 29 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023

Conference

Conference11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, ICHI 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHouston
Period06/26/2306/29/23

Funding

This work was supported by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center under Strategic Partnership Projects agreement NFE-21-08617. This abstract has been authored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy.

FundersFunder number
U.S. Department of Energy
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical CenterDE-AC05-00OR22725, NFE-21-08617

    Keywords

    • Pediatric Drug Data
    • RxNorm
    • UMLS

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