a semantic approach to health care quality reporting
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A Semantic Approach to Health Care Quality Reporting. Chris Pierce (CCF) Chris Deaton (Cycorp) Brian Beck (EmCee Partners) Chimezie Ogbuji (CCF) Semantic Technology Conference 15 June 2009. Outline. Demands and complexity health care quality reporting Current approaches to reporting - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A Semantic Approach to A Semantic Approach to Health Care Quality Health Care Quality
ReportingReporting
Chris Pierce (CCF)Chris Deaton (Cycorp)
Brian Beck (EmCee Partners)Chimezie Ogbuji (CCF)
Semantic Technology Conference15 June 2009
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OutlineOutline
1. Demands and complexity health care quality reporting
2. Current approaches to reporting
3. A semantic approach
4. Two different methods of semantic reporting
5. Evaluations
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Health Care Quality ReportingHealth Care Quality ReportingGovernment and Industry Groups• CMS• Leapfrog• National Quality Forum (NQF)
National Databases• STS Cardiac & Thoracic Surgery Databases• ACC National Cardiovascular Data Registries• ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
3rd Party Payors (Insurance Companies)• Blue Cross Blue Shield• United Health• Anthem
Private Quality Tracking Groups• US News and World Report• Health Grades
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Reporting ComplexitiesReporting ComplexitiesSmoking/Tobacco Use HistorySmoking/Tobacco Use History
STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database
2002 - 2007 2008 - Present
Any tobacco use history Used < 1 mo. of surgery
Current or recent cigarette smoker < 1 year of surgery
STS General Thoracic Surgery Database
2004 - 2009 2009 -
Chew user Cigarette user Pipe user Other tobacco user Days quit before surgery
History of cigarette smoking Never Quit > 1 mo. of surgery Smoked < 1 mo. of surgery
ACC NCDR CathPCI Registry
2004 - 2009 2009 -
History of tobacco use Never Quit > 1 mo. of surgery Used < 1 mo. of surgery
Current or recent cigarette smoker < 1 year of surgery
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Reporting ComplexitiesReporting ComplexitiesSurgical Site InfectionSurgical Site Infection
STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database
All of: Wound reoperation (I&D) Positive culture Treated with antibiotics
STS General Thoracic Surgery Database
Two of: Wound reoperation (I&D) Positive culture Treated with antibiotics
ACS National Surgical Improvement Program
One of: Purulent drainage Wound reop or dehisces Abscess/other sign of infect Diagnosis by physician
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Typical Reporting ProcessTypical Reporting Process
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Problems with Typical ApproachProblems with Typical Approach
Redundant and costly• Same data collected multiple times• Managing multiple databases with overlapping
content plus separate databases for research
Inconsistent• Same measures may be collected differently in
separate databases• Potential for reporting different results for same
measures
Low data reusability for research• Changing definitions• Different definitions
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A Semantic ApproachA Semantic Approach
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Semantic Reporting Semantic Reporting RequirementsRequirements
Performance• Scalable• Fast• Automatable
Maintainability• Declarative• Reusable
Currency• Responsive to data changes• Responsive to logic changes
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Overview of Semantic ApproachOverview of Semantic Approach
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Core Clinical FactsCore Clinical FactsSmoking/Tobacco use History
Any history of tobacco use
Date-time of data source
If tobacco used
What was used (cigs, cigar, chew, etc.)
Date quit
Date-time of procedure
Date-time of hospital admit
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Core Clinical FactsCore Clinical FactsSurgical Site Infection
Surgical wound I&D procedure performed• Date-time of procedure
Positive culture• Culture results; Date-time of culture sample taken
Treatment with antibiotics
• Antibiotic taken; Date antibiotic started and stopped
Purulent drainage, abscess or other sign• Sign; Date-time sign began
Diagnosis of a surgical site infection• Date-time of diagnosis
Fever >38 degrees C• Date-time of fever onset
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Federation with SemanticDBFederation with SemanticDB™™A Semi-structured content
management system Supports:• Extensible RDF data model and OWL ontology• Automated, model-driven dual data
representation in XML and RDF• Manual data entry via dynamically generated user
interfaces• Electronic data import using a variety of
protocols• Rich XML and RDF processing
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Inferential Report DerivationInferential Report DerivationOntological and Rule-based
derivation of report variables and values from core clinical facts
• Forward reasoning of selected entailments into expanded RDF graphs
• Backward reasoning of additional entailments, if necessary, through queries at run time
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Ontological Forward ReasoningOntological Forward ReasoningSTS Adult Cardiac Surgery Variable 2410 OCarCong
– Congenital Defect Repair
<owl:Class rdf:about="&sts;CongenitalDefectRepair"> <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="&sts;MajorProcedure"/> <owl:intersectionOf rdf:parseType="Collection"> <owl:Class> <owl:complementOf> <owl:Class> <owl:unionOf rdf:parseType="Collection"> <rdf:Description rdf:about="&sts;VSDRepair"/> <rdf:Description rdf:about="&sts;ASDRepair"/> </owl:unionOf> </owl:Class> </owl:complementOf> </owl:Class> <rdf:Description
rdf:about="&ptrec;SurgicalProcedure_congenital_heart_procedure"/> </owl:intersectionOf> <skos:definition>Indicate whether the patient had a congenital defect repair either in conjunction with, or as the primary surgical procedure.</skos:definition> <skos:prefLabel>OCarCong</skos:prefLabel> </owl:Class>
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Rule-Based Forward ReasoningRule-Based Forward ReasoningDerivation of hasHospitalization and
PostOpInHospitalEvent in Notation 3 rules{ ?HOSP a ptrec:Event_encounter_hospitalization; dnode:contains ?HOSP_START_DATE, ?HOSP_STOP_DATE. ?HOSP_START_DATE a ptrec:EventStartDate; ptrec:hasDateTimeMin ?
ENCOUNTER_START. ?HOSP_STOP_DATE a ptrec:EventStopDate; ptrec:hasDateTimeMax ?
ENCOUNTER_STOP. ?EVT_DATE a ptrec:EventStartDate; ptrec:hasDateTimeMin ?EVT_START_MIN . ?EVT dnode:contains ?EVT_DATE ; a ?EVT_KIND . ?EVT_KIND log:notEqualTo ptrec:Event_encounter_hospitalization . ?EVT log:notEqualTo ?HOSP . ?EVT_START_MIN str:lessThanOrEqualTo ?ENCOUNTER_STOP. ?EVT_START_MIN str:greaterThanOrEqualTo ?ENCOUNTER_START } => { ?EVT
csqr:hasHospitalization ?HOSP } .
{ ?IDX_OP a csqr:QualifyingOperation; csqr:hasHospitalization ?HOSP. ?EVENT csqr:hasHospitalization ?HOSP; cyc:startsAfterStartingOf ?IDX_OP } => { ?EVENT a csqr:PostOpInHospitalEvent } .
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Rule-Based Forward ReasoningRule-Based Forward ReasoningDerivation of STS-ACS variable 2740
COpReGft – Reop for graft occlusion
{ ?OPERATION a csqr:PostOpInHospitalEvent;
cyc:startsAfterStartingOf ?MORBIDITY;
dnode:contains ?CABG.
?CABG a ptrec:SurgicalProcedure_vascular_coronary_artery_bypass .
?MORBIDITY a csqr:PostOpInHospitalEvent;
a ptrec:Event_morbidity_coronary_artery_bypass_graft_occlusion } => { ?OPERATION a sts:ReopForGraftOcclusion } .
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Approaches to Semantic Approaches to Semantic ReportingReporting
Two methods being developed and evaluated
• “Triple Store” approach• Stores expanded RDF graphs in
relational triple store• Uses Cyc to query store and generate
reports variable by variable• “In Memory” approach
• Expands and queries individual graphs in memory to generate reports record by record on the fly
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““Triple Store” ReportingTriple Store” Reporting
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““In Memory” ReportingIn Memory” Reporting
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Evaluating the ApproachesEvaluating the Approaches
“Triple Store” “In Memory”
Scalability ? +Speed ? ?Automation + +Declarative + +Reusable + +Current Data - +Current Logic + -
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Benefits of Semantic ReportingBenefits of Semantic Reporting
Cost savings• Eliminate redundant data collection• Reduce data management costs
Reporting consistency• Guarantee reporting of same values for
same measures
Data reusability• Same core data usable for reporting,
research, marketing, etc.
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Challenges of Semantic Challenges of Semantic ReportingReporting
Availability of structured data• EMRs often store data as narrative• Requires manual abstraction or text mining
Impact of temporal fuzziness on reasoning• Timing of medical events can be fuzzy or ambiguous• Requires careful rule construction and checks for
missed cases
Agency requirements at odds• Requirements implement quality control through
specific data collection UI requirements• Need to allow quality control with derivation logic
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AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements
Funding:
• CCF Growth Board
• CCF Heart and Vascular Institute
Sponsorship:
• Dr. Eugene Blackstone