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. 2022 May 23:2022:432-438.
eCollection 2022.

Implementation of a Maternal Child Knowledgebase

Donna A Santillan  1 , Mark K Santillan  1 , Heather A Davis  1 , Mark Crooks  1 , Patrick J Flanagan  1 , Chris E Ortman  1 , Elissa Z Faro  1 , Stephen K Hunter  1 , Boyd K Knosp  1
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Implementation of a Maternal Child Knowledgebase

Donna A Santillan et al. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. .

Abstract

To advance the application of clinical data to address maternal health we developed and implemented a Maternal Child Knowledgebase (MCK). The MCK integrates data from every pregnancy that received care at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics (UIHC) and links information from the pregnancy episode to the delivery episode and between the mother and child. This knowledgebase contains integrated information regarding diagnoses, medications, mother and child vitals, hospital admissions, depression screenings, laboratory value results, and procedure information. It also collates information from the electronic health record (EPIC), the Social Security Death Index, and the Medication Administration Record into one knowledgebase. To enhance usability, we designed a custom viewer with several pre-designed queries and reports that eliminates the need for users to be proficient in SQL coding. The recent implementation of the MCK has supported multiple projects and reduced the number of Obstetrics-related data queries to the Biomedical Informatics group.

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Figure 1.
Schematic of Obstetrics Data Integration Architecture.
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Example of harmonizing data between different medical systems.
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Example of query output in the clinical data viewer. Protected health information has been removed from these results.
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