HL7AU - FHIR WG : 2022-07-20 Minutes

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11am Sydney time

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Attendees

Align with ABS standard for gender identity; AIHW + LGBTQI
https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/standards/standard-sex-gender-variations-sex-characteristics-and-sexual-orientation-variables/latest-release
Position is have agreed to utilise this resource and move towards code systems and value sets
See: https://github.com/hl7au/au-fhir-base/issues/599
LA: SNOMED updates done in May international release; added some concepts to support identifies as
- different term - NOS; optionally + text ; need to include
- prefer not to answer - null flavor? ; need to include
Still montior Gender Harmony project - contribute to this...
Action: review incoming SNOMED terms
Patient.gender - administration/record keeping
http://build.fhir.org/extension-individual-recordedsexorgender.html : refer to this in R5 as potential useful
http://hl7.org/fhir/R4/extension-patient-genderidentity.html : raise ticket to look at context including RelatedPerson; Person
if need gender identity for Practitioner address this locally
need some options on how to represent gender identiy with support for all of the terms; add page for this discussion in wiki