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Sunday, 03 June 2007


Workshop Overview

SNOMED-CT is the most comprehensive clinical terminology covering all medical (primary care, acute/tertiary care), procedures, medicine, nursing, allied health domains. Currently, different terminology/classification systems are used in different health care sectors and clinical domains. Such disparities prevent full semantic interoperability between data collected from different sectors and clinical domains. The decision to adopt SNOMED-CT will remove the need to perform code/terminology mapping and information loss as a result of the mapping procedures. SNOMED-CT has the great potential to facilitate full semantic interoperability of interchanged health data across the entire health care industry.

HL7 NZ and Australia are pleased to offer a workshop on SNOMED-CT for the NZ health IT industry and international delegates prior to the IHIC conference. The workshop is being coordinated by Terminology Central with the support of HL7 Australia. These sessions will take the mystery out of SNOMED and focus on practical issues required for implementation and discussion of international experience.

There will be two parallel education streams which will be preceded by a presentation from the NZ Ministry of Health on “Now that we have rights to use SNOMED CT in NZ, what will we do to ensure its successful adoption across the sector?” presented by Russell Craig, Team Leader Strategy and Policy, Health Information Strategy & Policy, NZHIS, Ministry of Health.

New Zealand, with eight other nations, is a founding member of the newly formed International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO, also known as SNOMED SDO). Having secured the rights for NZ to use SNOMED CT, the Ministry of Health will now take two steps:

  1. Put in place the arrangements required for licensing and distribution in NZ
  2. Work with the health and disability sector to determine how SNOMED CT can best be adopted across the sector and how the Ministry can facilitate and support the ongoing process. This workshop will offer TWO concurrent streams

Workshop Options - Concurrent Streams

ENTRY LEVEL Workshop
Introduction to terminology and getting to know SNOMED-CT, along with comparisons of the current terminology and classification systems such as ICD9 and 10AM, Read codes, and LOINC. The sessions will focus on practical issues related to how SCT can be used in health informatics systems. At the end of this workshop you will understand where clinical terminology supports data management and interoperability. You will understand how SCT is constructed and be able to navigate around with confidence and find terms using browser software and and online tools. We will introduce the process of mapping or linking SNOMED to existing terminologies.

IMPLEMENTER LEVEL
Following a rapid review the terminology and SNOMED basics, we will launch into issues relevant to those wanting to implement SNOMED. You will understand the need for Enterprise Terminology Framework, tackle the development of vocabulary sets to support local implementation and use in HL7 V3 and CDA standards. International speakers with experience of implementing SNOMED will cover HL7 Common Terminology Services framework as well as considering a number of terminology management products. We will look in depth at how terminology is used in the HL7 Continuity of Care Document (CCD). Workshop attendees are encouraged to present a case study of experience with SNOMED and to provide advance notice of questions or topics of interest. Terminology experts attending the conference are encouraged to contact the organizers and discuss a role in the workshop or expert panel discussion. Both workshops will have hands on components, so it will help to bring a laptop (wireless enabled if possible, but please don’t be concerned if you can’t). At the completion of both workshops participants will be given an opportunity to review their understanding of the content and receive a statement of achievement and review the key issues covered in the workshop.

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Group workshops: New Zealand organisations who would like to offer SNOMED education to 10 – 20 staff are invited to consider a workplace specific workshop which could be conducted after the HL7 meeting before our international group of speakers return home) – contact This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
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Note: A Discounted Registration Rate is available if you also are attending IHIC 2007 - Save $100
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