FHIR Chat · diagnosticreport-note - category · implementers

Stream: implementers

Topic: diagnosticreport-note - category

view this post on Zulip Lital Inghel (Nov 07 2021 at 11:47):

for http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/STU3.1.1/StructureDefinition-us-core-diagnosticreport-note.html
it says
o The DiagnosticReport.category binding must support at a minimum the US Core DiagnosticReport Category Codes of:
Cardiology (LP29708-2)
Pathology (LP7839-6)
Radiology (LP29684-5)

but category is 'extensible',
so do we must support at least these 3 categories, or can we use any category we have in our product?

view this post on Zulip Elliot Silver (Nov 07 2021 at 12:44):

If you are following US core, and you have a radiology, pathology, or cardiology report, extensible means you must use one of those codes. If you have other categories of report, you can use other codes. If you have non-LOINC codes for those categories, you can use in addition and as translations of the given codes. I don't believe you can use more specific LOINC codes as translations of the given LOINC codes.

view this post on Zulip Eric Haas (Nov 07 2021 at 15:36):

I don't believe you can use more specific LOINC codes as translations of the given LOINC codes.

yes, you can and should do that

for example: 

my_code:
  coding:
    - system: 'http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/my_codesystem'
      code: my_code_foo
    - system: 'http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/my_codesystem'
      code: my_more_granular_and_specific_code_foo
  text: My Code Foo

view this post on Zulip Lital Inghel (Feb 09 2022 at 08:18):

so if we have more than these 3 LP CODES

Code Display
LP29684-5 Radiology
LP29708-2 Cardiology
LP7839-6 Pathology

we are allowed to use and output other LPs to represent more categories? correct? we are not limited to only the above 3 categories?

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