The SNOMED CT Implementation Guide for Allergy, Hypersensitivity, and Intolerance offers comprehensive guidance for healthcare providers, information managers, and software developers to standardize documenting adverse sensitivity data, including allergies, non-allergic hypersensitivity, and intolerance. It includes five chapters that introduce the guide, provide key use cases, elaborate on SNOMED CT terminological needs, introduce HL7 FHIR for data exchange, and present technical considerations for joint implementation. This guide is beneficial for healthcare providers, information managers, and software developers interested in integrating SNOMED CT into workflows within the domain of allergy, hypersensitivity, and intolerance.
Web browsable version: http://snomed.org/allergy
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Implementation demonstration: https://ihtsdo.github.io/sct-implementation-demonstrator/#/allergies
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Contents
Executive Summary
1. Introduction
2. Clinical Use Case
3. Allergy Content in SNOMED CT
4. Information Model and Terminology Binding
5. Implementation Considerations
- 5.1 Options for Documenting Allergy using Allergy List vs Problem List
- 5.2 Enabling Clinical Decision Support
- 5.3 Terminology Services
- 5.4 Demonstration app
Appendixes
- Appendix A: Glossary of Terms
- Appendix B: Historical SNOMED CT content perspective
- Appendix C: Analysis of the HL7 C-CDA model
- Appendix D: Analysis of the HL7 Patient Care Domain Analysis Model
- Appendix E: Analysis of the ISO International Patient Summary (IPS)
- Appendix F: Analysis of the epSOS information model
- Appendix G: Analysis of the openEHR information model
- Appendix H: Analysis of the US Federal Health Information Model
- Appendix I: Inclusive Information Model
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