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About Concept Hub
Concept Hub is designed to facilitate collaboration among users 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's content is seeded by contributions from the 3M Healthcare Data Dictionary (HDD). (more...)
Categories
Concepts are organized under categories or vocabulary domains. Concepts can be browsed by category or individually by name using the search field in the side bar.
| Category Name (Number of Members) | Category Description |
|---|---|
| All Concepts (63262 members) | This category includes all Concept Hub concepts. |
| Concept Relationship Type (2 members) | This category is a collection of defined relationships between concepts. |
| Concept Status (3 members) | This category is a collection of concepts used to designate the current standing of concepts within the Hub. |
Lab Results (39249 members)
Lab Analyte Attributes (12585 members) Lab Property Attributes (84 members) Lab Timing Attributes (16 members) Lab System Attributes (293 members) Lab Scale Attributes (6 members) Lab Method Attributes (501 members) | This set of categories include Laboratory Results along with the attributes used to formally define them. Lab attributes are modeled according to Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC®). |
| Medication Ingredient (9218 members) | This category is a collection of medication ingredients. |
| Race (958 members) | This category is a collection of ethnic groups, tribes, or other distinct human populations. HL7 PID 10 Race |
| Relationship to Patient (148 members) | This category names individuals based on their relationship to the patient. |
| Tooth Anatomic Identification (118 members) | This category identifies adult and primary teeth; and supernumerary and hemisectioned modifiers. |
| Tooth Surface (66 members) | This category identifies tooth surfaces. |
To add a new concept under a specific category, click the "default form" of that category, and fill in the necessary details.
Currently, lab attributes, lab results and general concepts categories are implemented. Future categories include:
- Clinical drug and its attributes, e.g., ingredients
- Microorganism
- Radiology Report Title
- Religion
- Specimen
- Unit of Measure
Additional categories will be added based on user suggestions.
Contributing to the Wiki
The main objective of Concept Hub is to promote semantic interoperability. Concept Hub provides a central place where users can quickly look up and locate NCID codes for medical concepts. The wiki technology facilitates collaboration among subject matter experts globally, creating an open, public forum for defining concepts and sharing the multiple ways they can be represented, their mapping to standard and local terminologies, and how the concepts relate.
Contributions from the user community are key to the organic growth of Concept Hub and how comprehensive the content will become. Initial concepts are loaded into Concept Hub by 3M Health Information Systems, Inc. (3M HIS). Registered users take an active part in editing the content in Concept Hub. There are several ways users can contribute to Concept Hub:
- Additions: Registered users can add new concepts, representations, relationships, and mappings.
- Deletions/modifications: Registered users can identify invalid and obsolete concepts. Concepts that have been assigned NCID codes are never deleted. Instead, the status of concepts can be set to be inactive or obsolete.
- Creating categories: Registered users can create new categories and subcategories within Concept Hub.
- Creating links: Registered users can create meaningful named relationships among concepts.
- Suggestions: Users can offer recommendations for enhancements to the Concept Hub wiki.
Editing
Development is underway to enable forms for adding new concept pages and editing attributes. Until these are complete, please list problems, suggested edits, deletions and additions on the discussion tab of the page of interest. For more details on user interaction with Concept Hub and detailed instructions on how to contribute to the ongoing development of Concept Hub, please see the Help section.
Looking Ahead
Hub 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 Concept Hub. We welcome your feedback and suggestions. Concept Hub’s future developments include:
- Downloads
- Additional searching capabilities
- Structured editing
