Comments invited to discuss which features are important to users and why.
Could we have a URL also please, if there is a publicly facing test server available, or link to source / download?
Capability | SnoChillies Server ( NZ ) | Terminz (NZ exemplar) | (SNOMED International) | Snow Owl | STS (Phast) | |
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| Test endpoint | https://valentiatech.snochillies.com/fhir | https://its.patientsfirst.org.nz/RestService.svc/Terminz | https://snowstorm-alpha.ihtsdotools.org/fhir/metadata?_format=json https://dev-snowstorm.ihtsdotools.org/fhir/metadata?_format=json | https://jade.phast.fr/resources-server/api/fhir | ||
| Source Code | https://github.com/IHTSDO/snowstorm | |||||
| Supported FHIR Version(s) | STU3 + R4 in beta | STU3 | R4 (FHIR version 3.3.0) | R4 | STU3 | R4 |
| Explicit SNOMED CT support | Y - supports multiple concurrent Editions and Versions | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Implicit SNOMED CT ValueSets | Y - Refset and Isa and ECL (R4) | Y - Refset and Isa | Y - Refset and Isa and ECL | Y - Refset and Isa and ECL (R4) | Y (Refset, IsA, ECL) | N |
| Implicit SNOMED CT ConceptMaps | Y - Historical, Inactivation Indicators, READ CTV3 map, ICD-O map, Australian Substance map, and ARTGID map. Others configurable at deploy time | N | N | Y - Historical, Inactivation Indicators, READ CTV3 map, ICD-O map, ICD-10 | Y | N |
| ValueSets defined using ECL | Y - all features of v1.3 including cardinality constraints | N | Y - but not all features supported (e.g. cardinality constraints) | Y - v1.3 | Y (All features) | Y - all features except operator memberOf and concrete values |
| Create/Read/Update/Delete of FHIR CodeSystems | Y | Read only | Read only | Read only | Read only, CUD via dedicated authoring environment | Y |
Create/Read/Update/Delete of FHIR ValueSets | Y | Read only | Read only | Read only | Read only, CUD via dedicated authoring environment | Y |
| Create/Read/Update/Delete of FHIR ConceptMaps | Y | Read only | Read only | Read only | Read only, CUD via dedicated authoring environment | Y |
| Able to expand ValueSets defined in terms of arbitrary (known) FHIR CodeSystems using filters | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Support for other well-known code systems | LOINC, CLAML (including ICD 10, OPCS, ICPC 2), OWL (including HPO) | LOINC, ICD 10 | LOINC | N | ATC, ICD-10/AM/CM/UK, LOINC, OPCS | LOINC |
| Search of FHIR CodeSystems | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
| Search of FHIR ValueSets | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
| Search of FHIR ConceptMaps | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
| SMART on FHIR support | Y | N | N | N | N | N |
$lookup | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| $expand | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| $validate-code | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
| $subsumes | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | Y |
| $closure | Y | Y | Y | N | N | Y |
| $compose | N - FHIR spec is lacking clear definition of semantics | N | partially for SCT - operation definition incomplete | N | N | N |
| $translate | Y - includes several implicit algorithmic maps | Y ( Read Code, ICD 10, LOINC, NZPOC | Y | N | Y | Y |
| SNOMED post-coordination support | N | N | N | N | N | N |
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| Support for normal-form post-coordinated expressions? | ||||||
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Support for the ExpansionProfile resource | N | N | N | N | N | N |
| Support for CodeSystem.supplements (R4) | N/A in STU3 | N | Y | N | N | N |
| Support for the NamingSystem resource | Y (including the $preferred-id operation) | N | N | Y | ||
| Support for the TerminologyCapabilities resource (R4) | Y (R4) | Y | N | N | Y | |
Support for the StructureDefinition resource | Y - SCRUD | N | N | N | ||
| Support for the Bundle resource | Y - SCRUD | Y (e.g. for accepting batches of $validate-code and $translate requests) | N | N | ||
| Support for other FHIR Resource types | OperationDefinition - Read only AuditEvent - Create only | Location & Organization (Read-Only support for NZ Health Provider Index Facilities & Organizations). | N | Definitional resources for catalogs of healthcare products and services: ActivityDefinition, CatalogEntry, ObservationDefinition, SpecimenDefinition | ||
| $validate | Y - All resource types | N | N | N | N | |
| Additional to FHIR | Content syndication via ATOM | CUD API, Syndication between servers and authoring environment | ||||