type private industry health informatics founded 1994 headquarters northbrook illinois united states key people frank naeymi rad ceo chairman of the board co founder website www.e imo.com intelligent medical objects imo is a privately held company specializing in developing managing and licensing medical vocabularies . imo partners with various health care organizations medical content providers and ehr developers . founded in 1994 imo is based in northbrook illinois . imo s clinical interface terminology which helps to map diagnostic terminologies to medical concepts and billing codes was launched in 1995 . products such as problem it and procedure it aim to help physicians more easily choose the correct medical term for their cases which then aids in finding the correct billing code . 1 this allows the clinician to capture the patient condition more accurately with more familiar terms and without slowing the ehr workflow . these products medical vocabularies are regularly updated so as to be mapped with standardized vocabularies such as icd and snomed as well as to adhere to the october 1 2013 2014 date of compliance for migrating to icd 10 . 2 3 each imo term within the clinical interface terminology is in turn mapped to the appropriate administrative code set . this allows the evolution of code sets to go on and minimize the impact on the clinician ; as code sets rules change all re mappings are handled by imo enabling the clinicians to continue leveraging the same vernacular . 4 imo works with companies such as meditech allscripts cerner and epic systems providing vocabularies for the companies health care software applications to be used by various hospitals and physicians in those companies client networks . 5 imo s products and vocabularies are thus used in sites across the united states . in 2012 imo opened a research and development office on the campus of the university of illinois at urbana champaign to be staffed by student interns from the university . 6 in february 2013 the centers for disease control and prevention published an article that demonstrates how imo s interface terminology was found to accurately categorize coronary heart disease and heart failure events . imo s terminology service was found to be 32 42 % more accurate compared to algorithms using reimbursement coding and classification techniques . 7 later in 2013 imo opened up a research and development office in the research park university of illinois at urbana champaign . products edit problem it helps map diagnoses to icd coding while allowing clinicians to use familiar terms thereby increasing usage of ehrs procedure it aids in properly finding the correct procedure term and allows clinicians to use familiar terms in identifying the correct cpt code medication it integrates content provided by lexi comp with imo s clinical interface terminology and snomed ct as a source of pharmacologic information for patient care and to reduce medication errors medical necessity aims to create easier reimbursement checking through immediate analysis of clinical orders ihealth search customizable search engine for clinicians to obtain information from trusted medical sources clinical intelligence identifies opportunities for better efficiency in companies clinical data by utilizing data normalization and cleansing references edit health care technology intelligent medical objects inc. . bloomberg businessweek . retrieved 9 june 2011 . hhs issues final icd 10 code sets and updated electronic transaction standards rules . u.s. department of health and human services . retrieved 23 may 2012 . icd 10 . centers for medicare & medicaid services . retrieved 23 may 2012 . medaptus partners with intelligent medical objects r in preparation for icd 10 . medaptus . retrieved 30 april 2012 . intelligent medical objects inc. . himss online buyer s guide . retrieved 9 june 2011 . medical information company to open in ui research park . the news gazette . retrieved 23 may 2012 . thomas e. kottke md msph ; courtney jordan baechler md mce . an algorithm that identifies coronary and heart failure events in the electronic health record . preventing chronic disease . retrieved 28 february 2013 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link external links edit intelligent medical objects imo terminology browser app for android imo terminology browser app for iphone and ipad retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title intelligent medical objects & oldid 721689800 categories companies established in 1994privately held companies based in illinoishealth care companies of the united stateshidden categories cs1 maint multiple names authors list navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 may 2016 at 13 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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