Draft Text for About Page

Hi Marc and Francis,

I really like the new description. Reviewing past forum postings and my notes from when we first introduced this idea in the spring, I believe the description is reflective of stakeholder feedback and very inclusive of all terminologies related to health and not just health care .

I look forward to hearing the feedback from the rest of the community.

Thank you.

Regards,

Andrea

Hello all,
The community's About page has been updated, and the text is replicated here for your convenience. Please post any comments here and if necessary we can review/discuss at our first community meeting on September 18.

Regards,
Marc & Francis

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What is the Health Terminologies Community?

The Health Terminologies Community is a place to share and learn about new and existing implementations of, and updates to, health-related terminologies, terminology subsets, and classification systems used in Canada.

Members actively contribute to discussions and share information and advice related to the implementation, development, maintenance, and use of multiple vocabularies in various health-related projects.

This community is responsive to its membership, actively encouraging, welcoming, and relying on the submission of discussion topics, agenda items, and other items such as education and vendor engagement from its members.

The community will engage and collaborate with other groups or InfoCentral communities on broader related topics when relevant.

Major reference terminologies and classification systems of interest include, but are not limited to:

SNOMED CT
LOINC/pCLOCD
CCDD (Canadian Clinical Drug Dataset)
ICD-10-CA
ATC

Canada Health Infoway is the National Release Centre (NRC) for SNOMED CT, pCLOCD, and HL7 in Canada.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is responsible for the development and publication of ICD-10-CA (the Canadian modification of ICD-10), as well as CCI (Canadian Classification of Health Interventions).

To become a member of this community select Join Group in the Group Menu.

If you have an idea for a community, working group, or project that will drive interoperability forward, let us know! Send your suggestions to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

CO-LEADERS
Francis Lau, Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria
Marc L’Arrivee, Information Standards Specialist, Manitoba eHealth

Hello,

For clarification purposes within the introduction to the Health Terminologies page, it would be good to mention that CIHI is responsible for the development of ICD-10-CA (the Canadian modification of ICD-10, as well as CCI (Canadian Classification of Health Interventions).

Thanks,
Alana Lane
Program Lead, Classifications&Terminologies, CIHI

Hello all,
Please find below the draft text for the community's About page. Please post any suggested edits to this thread and we can discuss here and hopefully arrive at some close-to-final text that we can approve at our first meeting.

What is the Health Terminologies Community?
The Health Terminologies Community is a place to share lessons learned and learn about new and existing implementations and updates to health-related terminologies (and terminology subsets) and classification systems in use in Canada. The Health Terminologies Community also provides advice for the terminology component of projects, and has an interest in terminology-related tooling.
Major reference terminologies and classification systems of interest include, but are not limited to, SNOMED CT, LOINC/pCLOCD, CCDD (Canadian Clinical Drug Dataset), ICD-10-CA, and ATC.
Canada Health Infoway is the National Release Centre (NRC) for SNOMED CT in Canada, and the author/maintainer of pCLOCD and, in conjunction with Health Canada, the CCDD.
Whether you are looking to add new terminology content to a reference terminology or subset, consult/develop editorial guidelines, seek advice, browse the content, discuss implementations or tooling, or map your local terminology, this is the place to be. Community participants have a wealth of knowledge to share.
To become a member of this community select Join Group in the Group Menu.
If you have an idea for a community, working group or project that will drive interoperability forward, let us know! Send your suggestions

CO-LEADERS
Francis Lau, Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria
Marc L’Arrivee, Information Standards Specialist, Manitoba eHealth


Thanks,
Francis & Marc