Concept Hub:About
From Concept Hub
Concept Hub is designed to facilitate collaboration among consumers and developers of health care terminologies. Its purpose is to establish a permanent public source of well-defined concepts that can be encoded for data exchange between health care systems worldwide. Concept Hub content is seeded by contributions from the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD). 3M subject matter experts (SMEs) add appropriate submissions from Concept Hub to the HDD and assign Numeric Concept Identifier (NCID) codes to each unique concept in the HDD’s controlled medical vocabulary.
Operating Principles
- Adhere to good vocabulary design[1]
- Maintain transparency in the authoring process
- Grow Concept Hub through user contributions
- Make terminology content freely available
Looking Ahead
Concept Hub is maintained by 3M Health Information Systems, Inc. (3M HIS). It is a work in progress. 3M has provided the working skeleton of a terminology wiki, and the user community will determine how Concept Hub grows. 3M seeks every opportunity to improve its usability. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Concept Hub’s future developments include:
- Downloads
- Additional searching capabilities
- Structured editing
