Stream: terminology
Topic: Concept Resource
Kevin Mayfield (Jan 14 2017 at 21:18):
Is their an intention to have a Concept resource? (or have I missed something)
Kevin Mayfield (Jan 14 2017 at 21:25):
I've been looking at ValueSet, CodeSystem and ConceptMap, built a database using a HAPI front end to try these out. I've found I'm not using the FHIR api's that often but doing a lot of work in SQL on the Concept table. I'm using the Concept table in a similar manner to how I would use other resources such as Patient, etc. When I say not that often, if I'm working with ValueSet
Kevin Mayfield (Jan 14 2017 at 21:30):
I'd drop into SQL to populate entries but it would be useful to have a direct access to Concept (e.g. do name search on a Concept resource for SNOMED codes rather than going to CodeSystem).
Grahame Grieve (Jan 14 2017 at 21:31):
what we've said is that we support publication but not management of code systems. And we expect that the large public code systems already have their own distribution format.
Grahame Grieve (Jan 14 2017 at 21:32):
given that, we've decided to just have a single code system resource (where we could have had a code system resource, along with N concept resources)
Grahame Grieve (Jan 14 2017 at 21:32):
that's a lot simpler for the simple cases (small code systems) which is what we said our scope is
Grahame Grieve (Jan 14 2017 at 21:33):
we've had some suggestion that we should support terminology maintenance use cases. We deferred any dsicussion of that to post STU3. If we did decide to take that on, we might very well define a Concept resource. But until we do, we infer our concepts from the code system resources, or from the other distribution formats
Kevin Mayfield (Jan 14 2017 at 21:38):
Cheers. Most of my code just goes direct to CONCEPT table but it was the maintenance (building ConceptMaps and ValueSets) that drove the question.
Grahame Grieve (Jan 14 2017 at 21:49):
yes mine is pretty much the same
Kevin Mayfield (Jan 14 2017 at 21:52):
That must mean I've done something correct :)
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