Re: [Health] Vocabulary - Snomed CT, LOINC

[lemoene]

 Thanks Luis, Cedric

(Chris I am not sure whether you are subscribed here?)

> > > > Still ramping up, more newbie questions: Was a standard vocabulary such as
> > > > LOINC or Snomed used in GNU Health's design? Please share any pointers, tips
> > > > &  tricks
> > > I'm open to use any free standard that has a wide adoption. The
> > > vocabulary then will be part of the localization project for the
> > > health_lab. It would be good to share the same as with Bika Labs.
> > >
> > > So if it's free and widely used, we'll be happy to use it.
> > I guess you mean open standard
> > https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_standard
> I used the "free" (as an Freedom) standard on purpose. If you look at
> the Wiki description of "open standard" there are quite many
> definitions, including Microsoft ;-)
>
> I like the European Union definition of the Standard. The problem with
> that concept is that only guarantees interoperability among the EU....
> we need standards to be used in all countries of the world.
>
> That's part of the reason that we adopt the WHO coding for diseases
> and essential medicines.
>
> I would love to see the same for interoperability, in clinical
> records... many countries have their own system... but hopefully
> someday something truly free will emerge.
>
> Any thoughts ?

They are all new to me and from there the question (remember we are not 
from a strictly medical background) but LOINC (http://loinc.org/) seems 
to be the most common? In a reply to the same question on the Bika 
Health list, the OpenELIS developers replied that they used that too.

SNOMED CT, http://www.ihtsdo.org/snomed-ct/, is another and was also the 
topic of  talk on the last day of IWEEE in Luxembourg.

I want to find out 'how to' more than which one and I'll ask the 
OpenELIS guys again once I am better informed. I have a feeling that the 
Mirth HL7 server could resolve this issue. I'll try to fit this into a 
discussion with the programmers tomorrow and report back.

Short of renaming all DB fields using LOINC I suppose one can keep 
additional fields for synonyms but this could fall squarely in the Mirth 
domain... to be honest I have no clue what I am talking about;-)

One thing I am not going to do though is wait or campaign for ONE 
standard as that is NEVER going to happen. All the different groups have 
too much invested in already

Bests
l