HL7 Terminology Authority Call

Agenda

HL7 Terminology Authority Meeting Agenda
Location: Teleconference / Date: 2017-04-4
Time: 4pm
Timezone, USA Eastern (UTC -4)
Facilitator / Heather Grain / Note taker(s) / Heather Grain
Attendee type H - HTA Member
O - observer
L - liason / Attendance
P - present
A - Apologies
N - not present without apologies / Name / Affiliation
M / Heather Grain / Global eHealth Collaborative
M / Rob McClure / MD Partners
M / Sandy Stuart / Kaiser Permanente
M / Jean Narcisi / American Dental Association
M / Ted Klein / KCI Inc.
M / Julie James / Blue Wave Informatics
L / Jim Case / National Library of Medicine/IHTSDO
L / Wayne Kubick / HL7 (CTO)
L / Russell Ham / Vocabulary Co-chair
L / Robert Hausam / Vocabulary Co-chair
Quorum Requirements Met:

1Opening Business

1.1Agenda Confirmation

1.2Minutes of Previous Meeting

Minutes of meeting 21 March 2017SNOMED International

2SNOMED CT

2.1Free Sub-Set

2.1.1Definition of sub-set requirements and specification

Board Submission - forwarded to the Board.

Jane M is on the call today and this is the first opportunity to discuss this with SNOMED International. Jane confirmed that it must be from the International Release and in International Release.

Finding the content to request

  • Rob M reported that generation of this list is not difficult -Lloyd has been able to do this. We will need to remove duplicates. It was also confirmed that the list included content from a national extension - which must be removed from the FHIR international resources e.g: 441671000124100, 439091000124107, 43909100012410. These are from the list of concepts we are requesting promotion.
  • There is an issue that FHIR should not publish these codes until it is promoted to the international release. FHIR need a mechanism to note that these are the codes they intended to include (content from extensions in their draft work - to determine the content they want to request for promotion) but not to publish that content until it is in the international release - HL7 do not have permission to publish content that is from editions other than the international release. Rob McClure will report back on discussions with Lloyd at the next call.

Need to make sure that we respond to the criteria set out in the eMail from December and the DICOM agreement. We must define a given use case - HTA is considering all international FHIR resources.

Action: HTA to put together our request for the free subset content request draft - major activity for this call..

2.2HL7 International namespace Request

Request SNOMED International to create a SNOMED CT extension namespace for HL7 International. Paraphrasing an earlier request from Rob, this is needed by the International Patient Summary project, and "to support model meaning binding and for the IG for SNOMED CT use in FHIR.” This would apply to all of HL7, not a specific WG or affiliate (I understand CIMI has its own).

3Content Requests

3.1FHIR

Action outstanding: HG to submit to IHTSDO request for promotion of content.

Action - HG to provide documentation on process for others to follow.

Heather has begun this process but it is not clear what to do when requesting promotion - Heather has contacted Monica Harry to get guidance (as suggested by Jane Millar). We have till mid April to ensure that the request is put through.

4Tooling

Action: Ted will include the relevant requirements into the UTG (unified terminology governance) project.

Action: feedback from CIC on project 847 potential duplication of UTG - Ted

5Publishing

5.1External Terminology Web Page

How would HTA like to manage this information. We need to document and let Wayne know.

6Harmonisation

Heather and Ted reviewed the Wiki instructions.

Action: HTA to review the new page

6.1SNODENT

Action: Jean to report back to WG on SNODENT/SNOMED CT options identified on last call.

7Value Set Content Specification

8Process Guidance to FHIR

9Other Business

9.1.1Next Meeting

Next call: 18th April 2017 (note: Ted and Heather at ISO meeting in China) - do we want to modify the date?

10Appendix : Known issues

10.1Publishing

  • Tooling for publication of unified terminology content and to support ballot.
  • External Terminology Web Page
  • LOINC survey instrument attribution
  • Policy for publishing value set definitions referencing external terminologies (current and future)
  • Ted list of issues associated with publishing for HTA.
  • Inclusion of maps in publications