Sex and Gender

Greetings folks. The slide decks and notes from Tuesday's meeting have been posted to the Documents Folder here: https://infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/resources/docs/sex-gender/2023-sessions Have a great day thank you for your ongoing commitment to this work! Kelly

Hi - As mentioned at the meeting, we are looking for feedback on a draft scope statement for the new HL7 Anatomical Inventories and Person Characteristics Project. Here is what was posted in the meeting: “Develop a FHIR profile(s) to address the exchange of common, clinically relevant and infrequently changing person characteristics that could be represented in a standardized manner. This may include anatomical inventory, blood type and antigens, eye color colour, sex parameters, gestational age at birth, etc. This project will clarify the boundaries between concepts that should be communicated as person characteristics versus those that should be communicated as conditions (e.g., genetic disorders). This project will require input from many stakeholders and affected parties, and hands-on effort from other HL7 working groups. The primary deliverable of this work be FHIR profile(s) to support person-centred care, and information models (where required), codes, concepts, value sets and other supporting artefacts. This work will use existing standards, classifications and terminology standards where they exist.” Please edit and comment as needed. It was also suggested that we have a lay version of the scope statement to make this more user friendly for those who aren't standards experts. We would love to have some language to get this started as well. Thanks so much! Karen

Hi - Thank you for your participation today in the meeting! I'm repeating a question from the chat about the HL7 work that I wasn't able to answer. I'm hoping my terminology specialists here in the forum can provide an answer? Question - Live messaging of v2, v3, v3.x, FHIR and next FHIR in play all at once is an issue. Other than upgrading entire messaging - does HL7 or other have advise on something like this? Thanks, Karen

Greetings folks, Here is the agenda for today: 1. Welcome and Land Acknowledgement 2. Ground rules for respectful dialogue 3. Purpose of Infoway Sex and Gender Working Group 4. SGWG Forum Post Notifications “How-to” Un/Subscribe 5. Shannon O’Connor – Canadian Institute for Health Information – pan-Canadian GSSO Environmental Scan: Approach, Rationale, Results Discussion – Eastern Canada 6. HL7 International Anatomic Inventories and Person Characteristics Project Scope Statement 7. Schedule Review 8. Adjournment Looking forward to it! Kelly

Thanks Shannon! Has been added. K.

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