Intelligent Medical Objects
Encyclopedia
Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) is a privately held company
specializing in developing, managing and licensing medical vocabularies. IMO partners with various health care
organazations, medical content providers and EHR
developers.
Founded in 1994, IMO is based in Northbrook
, Illinois
. IMO's clinical interface terminology, which helps to map diagnostic terminologies to medical concepts and billing codes, was launched in 1995. Products such as Problem (IT) and Procedure (IT) aim to help physicians more easily choose the correct medical term for their cases, which then aids in finding the correct billing code. This allows the clinician to capture the patient condition more accurately, with more familiar terms and without slowing the EHR
workflow.
These products' medical vocabularies are regularly updated so as to be mapped with standarized vocabularies such as ICD
and SNOMED, as well as to comply with the October 1, 2013, date of compliance for migrating to ICD-10
. Each IMO term within the clinical interface terminology is in turn mapped to the appropriate administrative code set. This allows the evolution of code sets to go on and minimize the impact on the clinician; as code sets/rules change, all re-mappings are handled by IMO, enabling the clinicians to continue leveraging the same vernacular.
IMO works with companies such as Allscripts
, Cerner
and Epic Systems, providing vocabularies for the companies' health care software applications to be used by various hospitals and physicians in those companies' client networks.
Privately held company
A privately held company or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the...
specializing in developing, managing and licensing medical vocabularies. IMO partners with various health care
Health care
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, chiropractic, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers...
organazations, medical content providers and EHR
Electronic Health Record
An electronic health record is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations...
developers.
Founded in 1994, IMO is based in Northbrook
Northbrook, Illinois
Northbrook is a village located at the northern edge of Cook County, Illinois, which is also a North Shore suburb of Chicago. The population was 33,170 at the 2010 census....
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. IMO's clinical interface terminology, which helps to map diagnostic terminologies to medical concepts and billing codes, was launched in 1995. Products such as Problem (IT) and Procedure (IT) aim to help physicians more easily choose the correct medical term for their cases, which then aids in finding the correct billing code. This allows the clinician to capture the patient condition more accurately, with more familiar terms and without slowing the EHR
Electronic Health Record
An electronic health record is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations...
workflow.
These products' medical vocabularies are regularly updated so as to be mapped with standarized vocabularies such as ICD
ICD
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems is a medical classification that provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or disease...
and SNOMED, as well as to comply with the October 1, 2013, date of compliance for migrating to ICD-10
ICD-10
The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 10th Revision is a medical classification list for the coding of diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases, as maintained by the...
. Each IMO term within the clinical interface terminology is in turn mapped to the appropriate administrative code set. This allows the evolution of code sets to go on and minimize the impact on the clinician; as code sets/rules change, all re-mappings are handled by IMO, enabling the clinicians to continue leveraging the same vernacular.
IMO works with companies such as Allscripts
Allscripts
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. is a publicly traded American company that provides physician practices, hospitals, and other healthcare providers with practice management and electronic health record technology, including electronic prescribing, care management, and revenue cycle software...
, Cerner
Cerner
Cerner Corporation is an international health care information technology corporation that specializes in providing complete systems for hospitals and other medical organizations to manage and integrate all electronic medical records, computerized physician order entry , and financial...
and Epic Systems, providing vocabularies for the companies' health care software applications to be used by various hospitals and physicians in those companies' client networks.
Products
- Problem (IT) - Helps map diagnoses to ICDICDThe International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems is a medical classification that provides codes to classify diseases and a wide variety of signs, symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or disease...
coding while allowing clinicians to use familiar terms, thereby increasing usage of EHRsElectronic Health RecordAn electronic health record is an evolving concept defined as a systematic collection of electronic health information about individual patients or populations... - Procedure (IT) - Aids in properly finding the correct procedure term and allows clinicians to use familiar terms in identifying the correct CPTCPTCPT or Cpt may stand for:* Captain , a rank or title* CBS Paramount Television, a former TV branch of CBS now known as CBS Television Studios* Certified Penetration Tester, a penetration testing certification offered by the IACRB...
code - Medication (IT) - Integrates content provided by Lexi-Comp with IMO’s clinical interface terminology and SNOMED CTSNOMED CTSNOMED CT , is a systematically organised computer processable collection of medical terminology covering most areas of clinical information such as diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, substances, etc...
as a source of pharmacologic information for patient care and to reduce medication errors - Medical Necessity - Aims to create easier reimbursement checking through immediate analysis of clinical orders
- iHealth Search - Customizable search engine for clinicians to obtain information from trusted medical sources
- Clinical Intelligence - Identifies opportunities for better efficiency in companies’ clinical data by utilizing data normalization and cleansingData cleansingData cleansing, data cleaning, or data scrubbing is the process of detecting and correcting corrupt or inaccurate records from a record set, table, or database. Used mainly in databases, the term refers to identifying incomplete, incorrect, inaccurate, irrelevant, etc...