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Scope:
Almost every clinical application leverages (coded) concepts from both standard, national and local terminology systems.
The ability to look up concepts in a terminology system, to resolve the relationships between two or more concepts, the
expansion of a valueset definition, their maintenance across versions over time are but some of the basic operations that
would be beneficial to the components and services supporting an application.
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- Terminology system curation tools
- Knowledge artifact authoring tools (e.g. rules, quality measures, etc..)
- (Synthetic) Data curation tools
- Data repositories implementing "semantic" queries (e.g. FHIR servers)
- Knowledge execution runtime (e.g. CDS engines)
- Data validation and conformance implementations (e.g. FHIR validation based on profiles)
- Data Aggregation systems e.g. supporting dashboard-like applications
- Data normalization / alignment / transreption, both offline and online
The goals of this task force are manifold
- Harmonize the FHIR Terminology Service (TS) specification with the OMG CTS-2 standard, under some assumptions:
- The scope of the FHIR server is narrower, and more runtime and application oriented
- The scope of CTS-2 is to cover a full terminology management and runtime service
- The FHIR server specification can be implemented on top of a CTS-2 one
- Critique the underlying CTS-2 spec, furthering its next generation
- Making recommendations to the FHIR community
- Identify candidate implementations
Current action items
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- Recommend Evaluate FHIR TS as a runtime API for applications
- Reach out to major terminology service vendors for open source / public deployment of API endpoints
- Apelon
- 3M
- HLI
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- Evaluate candidate implementations
- Work with the terminology content WG to define the "endorsed" content, if any
Specifications
- Alignment of FHIR TS and any
- Evaluate, provide feedback and assist with the evolution of the candidate specifications
- CTS-2
- Recommended TS interaction scenarios and protocols
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- consolidation roadmap
- Define a test framework to validate the functionality of a candidate implementation for the purpose of use by an application
References and Links:
An initial email thread discussing the topic (Oct 29, 2015)