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Re: [Health-dev] [task #12912] Automatic retrieval of patient allergies
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Re: [Health-dev] [task #12912] Automatic retrieval of patient allergies |
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Tue, 5 Nov 2013 18:00:13 +0000 (GMT) |
Hello Luis
Thanks for the feedback!
I agree that the SNOMED CT coding system
is only available as a free download in certain countries and so cannot be
considered for GNU Health at the moment.
I searched the ICD-10 pathology
section with "allergic" "allergy" "intolerance" and "adverse reaction" and this
revealed a few more descriptions and codes which may need to be linked.
One
important code is Z88.0 - personal history of allergy to penicillin.
Might it
be possible for all penicillin medication products to be flagged with this code
in the medicament database table "adverse reaction" field. If so, it might then
be possible to develop some decision support functionality which could check
the patient's allergy code with the drug database adverse reaction code. If
they match then a pop up warning could appear to warn the prescriber.
"!!!
This patient is allergic to penicillin. Please cancel prescription or proceed
with extream caution !!!"
This might be a bit ambitious for the short term
development plan but it would be good to include it in the medium term plan :-)
Regards
Andrew