CRICO needed to conduct a 360 review of its existing  patient safety code sets and coding workflows.  A major roadblock for the organization was that their attempt to meet requirements for improved  business intelligence discovery could not be met given their reliance on a dated pre-coordinated coding system.  The business lacked a mechanism for keepings its coding activity aligned with business needs and processes.

Through a combination of working sessions, interviews and content audits, Earley Information Science developed a new patient safety conceptual framework model.  Using a variety of publicly available sources, we developed a faceted, patient safety vocabulary model for identifying gaps and missing concepts in CRICO's pre-coordinated system