Radiology data processing and standardization techniques

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, the machine-readable medium including instructions, which when executed by a machine having at least one hardware processor, causes the machine to perform operations including:

• processing an instance of data produced from a medical imaging procedure to determine characteristics of the medical imaging procedure, wherein the data produced from the medical imaging procedure includes a source medical imaging procedure identifier used by a source medical facility;
• identifying multiple standardized data values from multiple standardized data fields defined for various characteristics of medical imaging procedures, the multiple standardized data values being identified from the determined characteristics of the medical imaging procedure;
• assigning a standardized procedure identifier to a type of the medical imaging procedure, wherein the standardized procedure identifier is a pre-defined value that is constructed from a combination of the multiple standardized data values identified from the determined characteristics of the medical imaging procedure, wherein the standardized procedure identifier is associated with the source medical imaging procedure identifier that is used by the source medical facility to identify the type of the medical imaging procedure;
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• recording, in a medical information system, the assigning of the standardized procedure identifier to the data associated with the medical imaging procedure;
• wherein the standardized procedure identifier is associated with additional medical procedure identifiers used respectively among other medical facilities to identify the type of the medical imaging procedure.

A system, comprising:

• at least one processor and memory;
• a procedure standardization module implemented with instructions executing via the processor and memory, the instructions configured to:
• process an instance of imaging data produced from a medical imaging procedure of a particular type of medical imaging procedure, wherein the imaging data produced from the medical imaging procedure includes a source medical imaging procedure identifier applied by a source medical facility;
• identify multiple data values from the instance of imaging data, the multiple data values identified from a combination of standardized data values established respectively for multiple standardized data fields;
• assign a standardized identifier to identify the particular type of the medical imaging procedure, wherein the standardized identifier is a pre-defined value that is constructed from the combination of standardized data values established for the multiple standardized data fields, wherein the standardized identifier is associated with the source medical imaging procedure identifier that is used by the source medical facility to identify the particular type of the medical imaging procedure;
• record, in a medical information system, assignment of the standardized identifier to the data associated with the medical imaging procedure;
• wherein the standardized identifier is associated with additional medical procedure identifiers that are respectively applied by other medical facilities to identify the particular type of the medical imaging procedure.

A method, performed by a computing device having at least one processor and memory, the method implemented by operations performed using the processor and the memory, with the operations comprising:

• establishing a mapping between a plurality of medical imaging procedure types and a normalized procedure type;
• designating a normalized procedure identifier for the normalized procedure type, wherein the normalized procedure identifier is associated with distinct medical procedure identifiers applied by respective medical facilities to identify the plurality of medical imaging procedure types;
• assigning the normalized procedure identifier to data associated with a particular medical imaging procedure, based on a plurality of data values for the particular medical imaging procedure that correspond to standardized data values for standardized data fields of characteristics for medical imaging procedures, wherein the data associated with the particular medical imaging procedure includes a source procedure identifier used by a source medical facility, wherein the source procedure identifier is one of the distinct procedure medical identifiers, and wherein the normalized procedure identifier is a pre-defined value that represents a combination of the standardized data values;
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• processing data from the particular medical imaging procedure based on use of the normalized procedure identifier, wherein the normalized procedure identifier identifies characteristics for the particular medical imaging procedure that are in common with other medical imaging procedures of the normalized procedure type.