Welcome and role call

Bruce Goldberg

Bruce Goldberg

alo@snomed.org

• Review published Allergy implementation guide and tool
  • How do we get feedback on the guide/answer questions on the guide: Is “Questions” the place in the allergy guide document to ask questions/add feedback?
  • Can we add a sentence to say it’s the place to put in questions and say when use the feedback button. Ask during meeting to Alejandro.
  • Where do we get to see those questions as Allergy CRG chairs so they are not drowned in all our confluence notifications.
    Methodology of handling questions in the CRG: how often do we look, who’s looking, when do we present the questions to the group, …

Allergy to "plasters"

Bruce Goldberg

• Decision to allow the use of physical objects as allergens for refsets
• From M-A: We made a special refset in Belgium called "interface terms" where we put all the synonyms people like to have to find concepts but that are "not allowed" by the SNOMED international editorial rules: slang, unxpanded acronyms, local terms. In that refset we have "cat" for cat protein". So the healthcare professionals registering the allergy can search the substances and pick "cat" in the substance based allergy registration model. And the system will register the biological truth which is cat protein. We have also a patient friendly term refset. In that one cat is also allowed as synonym for cat protein. So for the patient it'll display also reaction= allergy and substance = cat. But for data exchange between healthcare professionals, it'll display the preferred term, "cat protein" (unless the local software is configured in another way).

Marie-Alexandra Lambot

Bruce Goldberg

• Marie-Alexandra Lambot and I will prepare agenda for next meeting to begin discussing gap analysis with ICD-11