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Reminder to record call

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Welcome and role call

Introductions

@Bruce Goldberg

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Allergy Implementation guide

@Bruce Goldberg

@Marie-Alexandra Lambot

• Review published Allergy implementation guide and tool

• @Marie-Alexandra Lambot to present implementation tool develeoped by Alejandro

SNOMED CT Clinical Implementation Guide for Allergy, Hypersensitivity and Intolerance

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SNOMED and LOINC - representing allergy testing in SNOMED

@Farzaneh Ashrafi

• Is there a need to represent allergy testing in SNOMED using LOINC content?

  • If not should existing content be deactivated?

• Response from @Farzaneh Ashrafi:

Kindly note that, as explained during the CRG call, in general, the existing content in SNOMED CT representing laboratory procedures and observables will not be inactivated. In addition, for this specific area of content, some members are still requesting content of this type to be added to SNOMED CT. Furthermore, RII deemed this type of content useful as order-only groupers for LOINC terms. Finally, as was explained during the call, concepts of type evaluation procedures (including laboratory procedures--hence the "Allergen specific antibody measurement" and subtypes), are considered for moving to the Observable entity hierarchy as part of the E2O project. 

I understand that, upon this clarification, you requested the removal of the preferred term for these concepts, as the PT for these concepts is incorrectly stated as "RAST". I have communicated this request to Jim and he agreed to an update as requested for these concepts. One thing I wanted to verify before starting the content update is that "RAST" will be removed as a synonym (PT or not). For search purposes, we could consider the addition of a definition (or annotation--when the functionality is available) to the grouper concepts to indicate the fact that RAST is an outdated/often not-applicable, though still highly used term to refer to these tests.

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367428009 |Desensitization therapy (regime/therapy)|

@Marie-Alexandra Lambot

• Review of 367428009 |Desensitization therapy (regime/therapy)|

  • Recent addition of 1284973003 |Immune tolerance induction (regime/therapy)|

Desensitization therapy.pptx

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Drug Allergy

@Bruce Goldberg

• Review of literature re. drug hypersensitivity literature re. classification and mechanisms for possible inclusion in SNOMED CT

  • Not up to date in SNOMED CT or ICD-11

Drug hypersensitivity update.pptx

Drug hypersensitivity_ Classification and clinical features - UpToDate.pdf

Drug-allergy_2022_practice_parameter_update.pdf

Redesigning the allergy module of the electronic health 8-9-2018.pptx

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Adjourn

@Bruce Goldberg

• Any other topics for discussion?