HERON (Healthcare Enterprise Repository for Ontological Narration) is a search discovery tool that allows KUMC faculty members to search de-identified data from various hospital and medical center sources that include but are not limited to:
By combining the various data sources, researchers can look at the data in new ways not available when viewing data in one source at a time. The following videos are intended to give patients/stakeholders an idea of how their data will be used for research and what types of people will have access to it.
Creating a Search
Analysis Tools
Each tool requires a patient set, also called patient list. To create a patient set, click the Patient List checkbox on the search pop-up that appears after you click Run Query. Once the search is complete, you can access the patient set in the previous query box (lower left section of the screen) by clicking on the search title and opening the results folder.
Data Use Request This video shows step-by-step how KUMC faculty members make their requests for data sets, both identified and de-identified.
Simple Search This video shows how a simple search is created and executed. It also demonstrates browsing and searching for terms in addition to placing concepts into groups for searching.
Interface Overview This video shows the functionality available in the HERON interface, including options to focus or expand a search.
Temporal Constraints This video shows an introduction to independent search constraint and the same financial encounter constraint.
Searching by Codes Introduction to using the search by code function to find diagnoses and procedures.
Timeline and Demographic Tool Learn to use the timeline and demographic analysis tools.
Age vs. Age at Visit Learn the difference between "age" and "age at visit".
ED Visits Learn how to find patients who have been seen in the emergency department.
Medication Modifiers Learn about medication modifiers and how to use them to limit your search.
Define Sequence of Events Learn to use the define sequence of events in HERON.
"Shopping Cart" Learn to create a "shopping cart" which can contain all of the variables you are interested in analyzing and receiving in your data set.
Demographic Folder Learn to navigate the demographic folder.
Video Timing Out / Previous Queries Learn how to find previous queries and what to do when queries time out.
Shared Folder Learn how to share queries with other HERON users.