Health Terminologies

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Hi The January 17th, 2023 Health terminologies meeting presentation is available here ... A recording of the meeting can be found through the following link .... If you have a topic you would like to speak about or present. Reach out to myself or Alana Thank you Alana and Anil.

Just to close the circle on this, I have just sent a request to [email protected] requesting information about real-life examples of installations using post-coordination. I'll post any interesting responses here.

Hello, The December 2022 Alpha release of the EDQM (European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare) Dose Forms to SNOMED CT Map package is now available. The ALPHA release package is distributed for evaluation purposes only. It must not be used in production clinical systems or in clinical settings, or distributed to Affiliate Licensees or any third parties at this time. This Alpha release provides organizations an opportunity to perform a thorough evaluation of the EDQM Dose Forms to SNOMED CT Map package, and to provide feedback to SNOMED International. This release is dependent upon and should therefore be evaluated in the context of the December 2022 SNOMED CT International Edition. The SNOMED CT Alpha release is distributed in a zipped archive file in the official RF2 format as follows: • xSnomedCT_SNOMEDEDQMMapPackage_ALPHA_20230104T120000Z.zip The SNOMED CT Alpha Release Notes and User Guide can also be accessed from InfoCentral: ... Feedback on either the map package, or either of the supporting documents should be sent to [email protected] Feedback should be sent as soon as possible, but no later than the 17th February 2023. When providing feedback, please include as much detail as possible, incorporating references to, or samples of, specific instances of the issue being reported. The absence of sufficient information to allow SNOMED International to confirm the reported issue may result in no action being taken prior to the Production release. Feedback on content related issues will be assessed and prioritized by SNOMED International, and a decision will be made as to whether to address any reported content issues for the Production release or as part of a future release. Please Contact Us if you are interested in downloading the map package or have other questions. Sincerely, Madison

Hi all, I had a call with my team and some of the CHI's team members to discuss how we can improve on current processes. We’re trying to automate any steps that don’t add any particular value to our overall processes of terminology management. One of these processes is requesting modifications to SNOMED CT. In particular, there are two types of RFCs that we request more often: 1. Addition of new terms 2. Translation of existing terms In either case, the current mechanism is for us to use the form available here: https://informs.infoway-inforoute.ca/Batch!showLoad.jspa This presents a web upload form where we include some metadata and we upload an Excel file that follows the template provided by CHI. Once the file is uploaded, we get presented with a Batch ID which is then used in a URL like this: https://informs.infoway-inforoute.ca/issues/?jql=%22Batch%20ID%22%20~%20BSCT-17297 Where BSCT-17297, is the batch ID we got from the submission of the Excel file. This URL then gives us a table that we can export to CSV with all the columns that are available. There are two particular things I'd like to automate in this process at this time: 1. Upload of the Excel file 2. Getting access to the new SCTID that gets eventually created. Today, the new SCTID is buried inside one of the comments, which is impossible for us to obtain and parse. I am proposing that a RESTful API be created so that we can easily import the Excel file (it would even be better not to have to use Excel, but we can attack that later on). This would be minimal work and use all the current tools but allow CHI's clients to start to innovate with automated tools that lead to better performance, effectiveness and efficiency. The number of steps currently needed lead to a lot of errors since we're copying/pasting from different sources (which contain different formats) and also it's extremely tedious and time consuming. I have gone through the official channels at CHI to request these two functionalities be implemented. I also wanted to go out to this community since I'm assuming you are all using some sort of the InfoRMS procedure for your own work. The more we can automate the better it is for everybody. Comments?