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Jenny

As a healthcare informatic, I assume we will use more medical terminology rather than vocabularies. If we are doing a survey through the patients, we might use the vocabularies because it’s easy to understand for them. For example, the questions ask to patient ‘do you have high blood pressure’ not ‘hypertension’.  However, if we research the statistical analysis of the result, we should utilize it as the clinical terminology. Also, the descriptions of medical code sets contain medical terminologies. Therefore, the deciphering the code and knowing terminology will be beneficial for healthcare information technology.

Angela

How do you think this affects or impacts healthcare information technology?

In the real world, we use words to communicate with one another. This allows for a richness of expression that is not available in codes, however, the more subtle the expression, the more difficult it is for a computer to understand. In order to relay and analyze the massive amount of information necessary to diagnose, treat, and pay for medical conditions, it is necessary to use a common code language (or a couple of them) to record and process this information using computers. A computer can understand a highly compressed alphanumeric code to efficiently make care accessible whereas human language would invariably slow the system down. 

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