About Electronic Health Record (EHR) code lists

Study designers can use EHR custom code lists when designing studies that support EHR data import.

For more information, see Enable Electronic Health Record (EHR) data import.

Study designers use these code lists to define the options for form questions that are mapped for EHR data import. For example, if you create a question to capture sex and map it to the EHR item Birth Sex, a dialog window opens informing you to use the EHR-Birth Sex code list. This ensures that the options in the EHR system match the options available on the form, resulting in successful data import.

Note:

These code lists can also be used with questions that are not mapped for EHR data import.

EHR code lists are associated with specific EHR data dictionary mapping items. The mapping items and their associated code lists are maintained in an Oracle-managed data dictionary.

As part of each Clinical One Cloud Service release, Oracle adopts the latest version of the dictionary, which includes updates to existing code lists and the addition of new lists. The dictionary and code lists are backward compatible, meaning existing data items are not removed or changed; only new items are adopted.

The following EHR code lists are available:
  • EHR-Birth Sex
  • EHR-Race
  • EHR-Ethnicity
  • EHR-Lab Test
  • EHR-Body Height Units
  • EHR-Body Weight Units
  • EHR-Body Mass Index Units
  • EHR-Body Surface Area Units
  • EHR-Body Temperature Noninvasive Units
  • EHR-Head Circumference Units
  • EHR-Diastolic Blood Pressure Units
  • EHR-Systolic Blood Pressure Units
  • EHR-Heart Rate Noninvasive Units
  • EHR-Oxygen Saturation Units
  • EHR-Respiratory Rate Units

Managing code lists

EHR code lists, like other custom code lists, are only available in English.
  • Use the search feature to locate and select options when editing large custom code lists. You can search by the Value, Label, or Code.
  • Use the multi-select feature to update multiple code list options simultaneously, for example, to hide multiple options with a single click.
You can perform the following actions on custom code lists:

  • Hide options in an EHR code list.

    If you hide a code list option that is included in the imported EHR data, the import does not populate the question. If necessary, unhide the code list option, and then import the data again.

  • Download or copy an EHR code list.
    • When copying an EHR code list, assign it a unique name.
    • Copied EHR code lists can only be used with form questions that are not mapped for EHR data import. Using a copied EHR code list with an EHR-mapped question can cause issues with EHR mappings during a Clinical One Cloud Service upgrade.
  • Add options to an EHR code list.

    Options added to the code list in Clinical One Cloud Service are not eligible for data import unless the same option is added to the EHR system code list.

  • Update the Order, Label, and Code, but not the Value of an EHR code list option.

For more information about managing code lists, see Manage a code list for all or one study.

Parent topic: Code lists