Stream: social
Topic: Relationship between SNOMED and FHIR please?
Dave deBronkart (Jun 26 2020 at 17:04):
I'm blogging about @olivierkarasira 's People's Choice award and it occurs to me, it would be useful to explain to the (my) public how FHIR and SNOMED CT are related. Is it correct to say that SNOMED is one of many ways to put medical information into a computerized code set, so that it can be moved around using FHIR?
Pardon me if that's grossly naive. This is how I roll: I give it a shot, then get shot down, and recurse until the "shot down" part ends :slight_smile:
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 26 2020 at 17:11):
I'd express it as follows: "When data needs to be 'understood' by computers so that they can guide clinical decisions (e.g. don't order that drug because the patient is allergic to it), the information needs to be represented in a way computers can understand rather than just text. SNOMED is a standard for encoding a wide variety of health-related concepts in ways computers can understand - drugs, diseases, parts of the body, etc."
Dave deBronkart (Jun 26 2020 at 17:12):
Great, for this use I'll steal the second sentence. (Well, "steal" with credit... not sure if that's stealing!)
Dave deBronkart (Jun 26 2020 at 17:28):
Am I right about FHIR being (in simple terms) a way of moving it around?
Lloyd McKenzie (Jun 26 2020 at 17:49):
yes
Olivier Karasira (Jun 26 2020 at 17:55):
@Dave deBronkart @Lloyd McKenzie We use SNOMED when we are transcribing health data to computerized code , so that sovereignty FHIR server can covert it to interoperable records we display on patients phones.
Peter Jordan (Jun 26 2020 at 23:35):
It's also worth reading the Introduction to the Implementation Guide currently being developed by the 'SNOMED on FHIR' Project - a joint collaboration between HL7 International and SNOMED International.
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