Welcome to the Medical Procedures Project Group space!
This space is for the Medical Procedures Project Group members to share information and collaborate.
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*** 30th, January 2024 Following the standing down of Kin-Wah as chair of this group, SNOMED International have made the decision to close down this group for the time being. When this issue is raised as a Member priority in the future, we will re-evaluate and look to re-establish the group SNOMED International would like to thank all participants in this group for their valuable work, and would like to ensure all of you that the work the group has undertaken will not be lost. |
Past Chair of the Project Group
Kin-Wah Fung, MD, U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Health
Purpose of the Project Group
To create a map from SNOMED CT to ICD-10-PCSassess the extent to which various procedure terminology models can capture the essential meaning of medical procedures
Scope of the project
All SNOMED CT procedure concepts that are within the realm of meaning of , ICD-10-PCS are considered within scope for mapping. Priority is given to medical and surgical procedures which make up the bulk of ICD-10-PCS codes.
Deliverables
The group has been exploring automated methods of linking the two terminologies, including lexical matching and alignment of the ICD-10-PCS axes and SNOMED CT concept definitions.
The group has made a request to IHTSDO for mapping tools which are necessary to create editor-curated mappings. Future deliverables will depend on whether such tools are available.
Project Group members
, ICHI, and ICD-9-CM may fall within scope for comparison.
Deliverables
TBDUser List
Space Content
This project contains the following pages:
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