Re: [Health-dev] Fw: HL7 FHIR descriptions for medication route, medication form and medication frequency

[Chris Zimmerman]

Hiya!

Looks like a great idea! Makes it easier to code the FHIR library, too, since 
the data is already there. I have done some of the work on converting between 
codesets in my FHIR library. I'll definitely try to help with this.

Thanks!

C


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On July 13, 2018 10:17 AM, Luis Falcon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> 
> Hi Andrew !
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 12:22:00 +0100 (BST)
> 
> "address@hidden" address@hidden wrote:
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> > I have been doing some 'HL7 research' and have decided that the GNU
> > 
> > Health datasets should align with HL7 datasets (tables) as much as
> > 
> > possible but also take into account the SNOMED CT International
> > 
> > terminology and coding system.
> > 
> > https://www.hl7.org/fhir/terminologies-v2.html
> > 
> > The column headings for Route / Dose Unit / Form / Frequency might be
> > 
> > best expressed as:
> > 
> > Local_Description | Local_Code | HL7_Description | HL7_Code
> > 
> > Does this make sense Luis?
> 
> It definitely makes sense, Andrew ! We can put the terminology on the
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> health_hl7_fhir module.
> 
> Thanks a lot !
> 
> Best
> 
> Luis