HL7AU - FHIR WG : 2019-01-30 Minutes

Date

30 Jan 2019

Attendees

• Brett Esler (Oridashi)
• Eric Browne (Montage)
• Rob Eastwood (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Jaco Olivier (HealthDirect)
• Reuben Daniels (Queensland Health)
• David McKillop (Australian Digital Health Agency)

 Apologies 

• Brian Postlethwaite (Telstra Health) - chair

• Saravanan Shanmugam (Healthdirect)

• Uday Chandrupalta (Australia Digital Health Agency)
• Jane Gilbert (Telstra Health)
• Jared Davison (Medical Objects)
• Angus Millar (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Vikas Mittal (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Paul McMahon
• Richard Townley-O'Neill
• Uma (Health Direct)
• Faraz Ahmed
• Satya Yelisetti (Australian Digital Health Agency)
• Stephen Royce

Agenda

• • Rob: NCTS valueset Common Languages in Australia to be versioned up to v2
  • Added by Jaco: SNOMED efforts update on/for HealthcareService classifications (descendant-of:224930009 vs. descendant-of:224891009)
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Minutes

•  NCTS valueset Common Languages in Australia to be versioned up to v2
  • JO NHSD has a working set of languages that makes sense 

    • Languages CSV published/available under: https://confluence.hl7australia.com/display/PA/HealthcareService+Discussion+Topics+-+13-09-2018 ** based on healthterminologies v1 for aboriginal https://confluence.hl7australia.com/display/PA/HealthcareService+Discussion+Topics+-+13-09-2018

  • RD: ABS language set has been published - reference (

    http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/1267.0Main+Features12016?OpenDocument https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/659337)

  • EB: ABS sets are in use public hospital PAS (V2) 
  • Investigate FHIR implementation from global EMR Cerner and Epic 
  • Question the jurisdictions and AIHW
• SNOMED efforts update on/for HealthcareService classifications
  • NCTS working on this further
  • Services hierarchy is perhaps more appropriate than Healthcare services
  • Valueset refer to the descendant-of:224930009 Services 
  • RD: Governance of NCTS sets is by the NCTS how are concerns from users addressed?
• Terminology service for AU content including FHIR core, NCTS and HL7 AU valuesets and codesystems would be useful for IG builder to ensure consistent and available terminology support - BE investigate logistics and cost for this 
  
  
  

Action items

• BE: expansion of values sets in IG builder 
• RD: languages investigation with QLD health
• RE: languages investigation with NCTS 
• BP: Organise call between Agency, AHPRA, NHSD, PA WG to discuss a solution for Practitioner.qualification terminology
  • PROFESSION DATE_OF_FIRST_REGISTRATION REGISTRATION_EXPIRY_DATE REGISTRATION_TYPE REGISTRATION_SUB_TYPE SCOPE_OF_PRACTICE SPECIALTY SPECIALTY_FIELD 
• BE: follow up on IG changes for IG builder 
• https://github.com/hl7au/au-fhir-base/issues/180 add extension; for review next time