West Coast Informatics
West Coast Informatics
Healthcare Terminology Services
We are leading technology and subject matter experts in healthcare terminology software and content. We provide the healthcare industry with comprehensive software solutions and implementation guidance related to medical informatics.
Our core competencies are tooling to support browsing, authoring and maintenance of structured terminologies. Tools for publishing and data quality analysis, methodologies and approaches for mapping between structured terminologies and/or local data sets.
Democratizing Terminology Access
Our mission is to standardize and simplify enterprise terminology services that leverage the latest technology stacks (including microservices and containers) and cloud platforms to deploy with the goal of achieving security, stability and scalability for government, non-profit and private sector organizations.
We have the knowledge and experience to deliver high performing terminology solutions for real world applications. Instead of trying to manage all of the complexity in-house — let us do what we do best so you can focus on delivering what you do best!
AI/ML in Healthcare Needs Terminology
Healthcare data is notoriously complex and messy. We believe that analyzing and interpreting healthcare data in the context of standard terminologies is key to deriving long-term value from this data.
We are working to combine the best AI/ML approaches with content from standard healthcare terminologies. Our offerings include tooling and consulting services designed to solve the most important core data management problems facing healthcare data.
Cleansing/normalizing healthcare data to aligning with terminology standards and QA best practices
Expanding search capabilities to use word-embedding (vector-based) approaches
Performing Natural Language Processing (NLP) to bind consumer and professional health text to standard terminology codes and graphs
Developing classification models to identify key aspects of healthcare data (e.g. procedure vs condition, acronym identification and expansion, )
Contact us to build these solutions into your next data project
WCI at a Glance
Get a quick look at who we are and what we do in our latest overview video from SNOMED Expo in this 60-second video
TRY OUR TERMINOLOGY SERVERS
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WCI Reference API & Browser
Reference terminology server. Loaded with SNOMED, RXNORM, ICD10CM, LOINC, and more
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SNOMED CT Terminology Browser
Browse the latest US Edition of SNOMED CT (no login required)
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UMLS® Terminology Browser
Browse the latest edition of the Unified Medical Language System - UMLS®
