Online FHIR® meetup: FHIR terminology services

FHIR® Terminology: Ideas, Challenges, Applications

Large terminologies like SNOMED CT, RxNorm and LOINC are a foundational part of the FHIR applications but there’re still problems with distribution, versioning, updates and management of terminologies. During this meetup we’re going to overview the current state of terminology support in FHIR and discuss challenges that implementers come across when developing and using their solutions.

Agenda

Speaker: Grahame Grieve, Principal at Health Intersections and The FHIR Product Director at HL7®

Title: Lord of the Terms
We all need good data exchange. But you can’t exchange good data, and make good use of that data, without good terminology infrastructure and management. What does that look like, and why should you invest in a terminology server?

Speaker: Nikolai Ryzhikov, CTO of Health Samurai
Title: Practical approach to FHIR Terminology Services
• What's wrong with CodeSystem and ValueSet.
• Why Aidbox introduced Concept resource.
• Translate Terminology API with Concept:
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Lookup and Expand as Search
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Bulk load for uniform terminology distribution
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ• Read for validate (+ bulk optimizations)
• Two phase terminology - separate terminology design and runtime.

Speaker: Dr Michael Lawley who leads the Health Informatics Group at the Australian e-Health Research Centre, part of CSIRO, Australia’s National Science Agency.
Title: FHIR Terminology Services with Ontoserver
We will provide a brief overview of the FHIR Terminology Services API, look at the use cases it supports, and discuss specifics of what and how Ontoserver supports. We will discuss the deployment architecture and how Ontoserver supports content syndication and why. Finally, we will look at some of the technical challenges faced and how we addressed them as well as new work.

FHIR® is the registered trademark of HL7 and is used with the permission of HL7. This event is not sponsored by HL7.