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IT Challenges & Solutions
Pharma companies often collaborate with CROs (Contract Research Organizations). termGate can act as a data interoperability partner, ensuring that both internal and external teams use standardized formats—minimizing friction and delays in trials.
| IT Challenges | termGate’s Solution Offering | Solution Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Integrating Real-World Data (RWD) for Research & Trials | - Clinical Data Mapping
- Clinical Data Modeling - Strategy & Advisory | - Mapping EMR data to OMOP or FHIR for drug safety studies |
| 2. Lack of Standardization in Data from Multiple Sources | - Clinical Data Mapping
- Use of Standardized Terminologies (SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm) | - Harmonizing lab results from hospitals using LOINC for a vaccine study |
| 3. Regulatory Compliance (e.g., FDA, EMA, CDISC standards) | - Strategy & Advisory Services | - Advising on how to structure trial data for FDA submission using CDISC/CDASH standards |
| 4. Scaling AI Models for Drug Discovery or Pharmacovigilance | - Healthcare AI & Prompt Engineering | - Designing GPT-based prompts to summarize adverse event reports from multiple languages and formats |
| 5. Limited In-House Expertise in Clinical Terminology & Standards | - Clinical Terminology Training Services | - Conducting training sessions on RxNorm & SNOMED CT for pharmacovigilance analysts |
termGate can help hospital groups centralize data governance across multiple locations.
| IT Challenges | termGate’s Solution Offering | Solution Example |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Inconsistent Clinical Documentation & Terminology Usage | - Clinical Data Mapping Services
- Clinical Terminology Training | - Mapping local diagnosis codes to SNOMED CT to standardize patient records |
| 2. Poor Interoperability Between Systems (e.g., EHRs, Labs, Radiology) | - Clinical Data Modeling Services
- HL7 FHIR Profiling | - Creating FHIR profiles to allow seamless data exchange between departments |
| 3. Difficulty Integrating AI into Clinical Workflows | - Healthcare AI & Prompt Engineering | - Building LLM prompts to help doctors quickly summarize patient histories |
| 4. Regulatory Pressure for Data Standardization (e.g., USCDI, NHS England) | - Strategy & Advisory Services
- Clinical Data Mapping | - Aligning internal systems to meet USCDI data element requirements |
| 5. Limited Staff Expertise in Coding Systems | - Clinical Terminology Training Services | - Hands-on training for nurses and coders in LOINC for lab data entry |
| 6. Fragmented Data for Research & Population Health Management | - Clinical Data Modeling
- Strategy & Advisory | - Converting patient data to OMOP CDM for internal research and analytics |
termGate can serve as a “clinical data backend partner” for startups or mid-sized vendors that don’t have internal data science/terminology teams but need to scale fast and meet compliance standards.
| IT Challenges | termGate’s Solution Offering | Solution Example |
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| 1. Difficulty Integrating Standard Clinical Terminologies | - Clinical Data Mapping
- Clinical Terminology Training | - Mapping user-entered symptoms in a telehealth app to SNOMED CT for structured storage |
| 2. Building Interoperable Systems that Comply with HL7 FHIR | - Clinical Data Modeling
- HL7 FHIR Profiling | - Designing a FHIR-compliant Observation resource for vital signs in an EHR module |
| 3. Weak Regulatory Compliance Around Data Standards | - Strategy & Advisory Services | - Guiding a digital therapeutics platform to meet ONC or CE certification requirements |
| 4. Lack of Expertise in OMOP, LOINC, SNOMED CT, RxNorm | - Clinical Terminology Training | - Training product managers and developers to properly implement RxNorm for medications |
| 5. Ineffective Use of AI/NLP in Products | - Healthcare AI & Prompt Engineering | - Crafting prompts for an AI assistant to extract symptoms from patient messages with clinical accuracy |
| 6. Scaling Globally with Local Terminology Constraints | - Strategy & Advisory Services
- Clinical Data Mapping | - Adapting terminology models for deployment in Europe (SNOMED CT) and Asia (ICD-10 variants) |
termGate could become a long-term technical partner for national or regional health surveillance programs (e.g., tuberculosis, maternal health, NCDs). Also well-suited to support global health grant-funded initiatives (e.g., Gates Foundation, USAID, WHO digital health projects).
| IT Challenges | termGate’s Solution Offering | Solution Example |
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| 1. Aggregating Data from Diverse Health Systems & Sources | - Clinical Data Mapping
- Strategy & Advisory | - Standardizing COVID-19 case data from multiple hospitals using LOINC for lab results and SNOMED CT for symptoms |
| 2. Lack of Unified Data Models for Population-Level Analysis | - Clinical Data Modeling
- OMOP CDM Implementation | - Converting multi-site patient data into the OMOP Common Data Model for national chronic disease surveillance |
| 3. Poor Interoperability Across Regional Health Systems | - HL7 FHIR Profiling
- Clinical Data Modeling | - Developing shared FHIR profiles to integrate EHRs from urban and rural clinics |
| 4. Inconsistent Use of Terminologies Across Jurisdictions | - Clinical Terminology Training
- Clinical Data Mapping | - Training local health units to use standardized codes like ICD-10, SNOMED CT, and LOINC in outbreak reporting |
| 5. Scaling AI Tools for Public Health Monitoring | - Healthcare AI & Prompt Engineering | - Creating AI prompts that analyze clinical texts and flag potential infectious disease patterns from EMRs |
| 6. Limited Internal Expertise in Global Data Standards | - Clinical Terminology Training
- Strategy & Advisory Services | - Advising a regional government on how to align with WHO data collection frameworks and standards |
termGate can be positioned as a curriculum enrichment partner for health informatics programs. termGate can support grant applications by serving as the clinical data strategy arm of a research project (NIH, Horizon Europe, etc.).
| IT Challenges | termGate’s Solution Offering | Solution Example |
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| 1. Lack of Standardized Data for Clinical Research | - Clinical Data Mapping
- Clinical Data Modeling | - Mapping EHR data from different hospitals into OMOP CDM to enable cross-institution research on diabetes outcomes |
| 2. Complex Data Integration from Multiple Systems/Sites | - HL7 FHIR Profiling
- Strategy & Advisory | - Creating FHIR profiles to integrate lab and imaging data for a multi-center oncology study |
| 3. Limited Expertise in Medical Terminologies | - Clinical Terminology Training
- Strategy & Advisory | - Training researchers on SNOMED CT, LOINC, and RxNorm to label data correctly for machine learning |
| 4. Difficulties Preparing Data for AI/ML Models | - Healthcare AI & Prompt Engineering
- Clinical Data Modeling | - Engineering LLM prompts to extract structured findings from unstructured clinical notes for NLP models |
| 5. Data Quality Issues Impacting Research Validity | - Clinical Data Mapping
- Strategy & Advisory | - Identifying and fixing inconsistent lab result units and mapping them to LOINC codes before analysis |
| 6. Teaching Gaps in Real-World Standards | - Clinical Terminology Training | - Offering SNOMED CT workshops or FHIR bootcamps for medical informatics students and faculty |
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