2019-04-08, 2019-04-09 Editorial Advisory Group Face-to-face Meeting

2019-04-08, 2019-04-09 Editorial Advisory Group Face-to-face Meeting

Date: 2019-04-08

1330-1700 UTC

Date: 2019-04-09

0900-1230 UTC

Zoom Meeting Details:

Topic: SNOMED Editorial Advisory Group Zoom Meetings

Time: April 8, 2019 1330 UTC

https://snomed.zoom.us/j/3306923098

Time: April 9, 2019 0900 UTC

https://snomed.zoom.us/j/958363815

 

Attendees

Chair:

  • Jim Case

AG Members

  • Guillermo Reynoso

  • Former user (Deleted) - ex officio

  • Jeremy Rogers (Unlicensed)

  • Jeff Pierson (Unlicensed)

  • Former user (Deleted)

  • Daniel Karlsson

  • Bruce Goldberg

AG Subgroup chairs

  • Former user (Deleted)

  • Daniel Karlsson

 

 

 

 

 

Observers:

Former user (Deleted)

Penni Hernandez (Unlicensed)

Former user (Deleted)

Monica Harry

Yongsheng Gao

Ed Cheetham

Former user (Deleted)

Ian Spiers

Cathy Richardson

Theresa Barry

Elaine Wooler

Nicola Ingram

Kin Wah Fung

Fareed Saroni

Karina Revinol

Maria-Cornelia Wermuth (Unlicensed)

Former user (Deleted)

Former user (Deleted)

David Robinson

Gary Dickinson

Andrew Perry (Unlicensed)

Daniela Costa

Felipe ?

Peter Williams

Kai Kewley

Former user (Deleted)

Elze de Groot

Anne Randorff Højen

Jon Zammit (Deactivated)

Farzaneh Ashrafi

Apologies

Meeting Files

Meeting recording

The folder containing the meeting recordings is located here.

Edited transcripts are located here

 

Discussion items

Item

Description

Time

Owner

Notes and Discussion

Action

Item

Description

Time

Owner

Notes and Discussion

Action

April 8, 2019

1

Call to order and role call

Notice of recording

Conflicts of Interest

1330 - 1332h

Jim Case

 

 

 

Agenda review and approval

1332 - 1335h

Jim Case

 

2019-04 Agenda approved

 

ECE Update

1335 - 1420h

Bruce Goldberg

  • Follow-up discussion of injury, traumatic and non-traumatic

EAG agreed that use of DUE TO Event was a preferred way to represent "Traumatic injury"

Additional discussion on approach to handle "non-traumatic injury" needed

  • Secondary disorders

BGO to write up proposal to use DUE TO Event to model "Traumatic injury"
BGO to test use of GCIs to represent "Secondary disease"
BGO to test alternative model for gout removing the relationship to hyperuricemia.

 

Clinical content "Sources of truth"

1420 - 1500h

Bruce Goldberg

Jeff Pierson (Unlicensed)

  • Need to revisit the policy on adding text definitions from other sources

    • Do we need to reference them if we paraphrase?

  • Combined definitions from multiple sources may be required to fulfill the needs of SNOMED

  • SNOMED definitions are not normative, but used to define the meaning of a concept as represented in SNOMED CT.

Bruce Goldberg and Jeff Pierson (Unlicensed) to continue to develop resource matrix.

 

Break

1500 - 1530h

 

 

 

 

Product role discussion

1530 - 1600h

Former user (Deleted)

  • Recognized that some product roles are needed to define other procedures and clinical findings

  • Those needed existing roles can be temporarily modeled using additional axioms

  • Warning language that this is a temporary situation while a more permanent solution is devised will be communicated to the community of practice, MF, CMAG, User-support group and GA(?)

Former user (Deleted) - to inactivate product roles that are not used to define other concepts.
Former user (Deleted) to work with KKU to develop a communication plan for existing product roles

 

Device project introduction

1600 - 1615h

Former user (Deleted)

See slides attached

 

 

Historical association refset

1615 - 1700h

Jeremy Rogers (Unlicensed)

Jim Case

  • Consideration of addition of "Withdrawn"

  • Concept Inactivation

  • From prior discussion, things you can say about an inactivated concept

    • 1..1 exact match - SAME AS

    • 1..X same as one or more concepts - MAY BE

    • Subtype of - WAS A

    • What is the use case for REPLACED BY? For erroneous concepts, out of date concepts? Does it provide additional value to make this distinction?

      • SAME AS: A = B, B = A

      • REPLACED BY: A <> B ?

    • Need to ensure that the semantic granularity is similar for "replacement" concepts.

    • How do we ensure consistent usage? Tooling currently constrains associations allowed for specific inactivation types

    • Do AMBIGUOUS concepts require 2..X MAY BE historical relationships?

    • MOVED TO and MOVED FROM needs to reflect RF2 structures (i.e. modules as opposed to namespaces)

    • WAS A relationships can be constructed from the release files

    • Are additional historical relationships needed to fill gaps in retrieval or analysis?

    • Concepts inactivated without a historical relationship (i.e. non-conformance to editorial policy) have an implied WAS A

  • Three aspects need to be considered:

    • Consistent historical relationship assignment by authors

    • Guidance for users to correctly use these relationship

    • From a QA perspective, cleanup of existing relationship to improve internal consistency

  • Should this be partially addressed by derivatives?

Discussion

  • Audiences that need to be supported by improved historical relationships:

    • Content editors - selection of proper historical associations when inactivating or moving concepts.

    • Data analysts who need a comprehensive history mechanism for traceability and data healing.

    • Implementors who need to know how to replace concepts that are either changed or moved or something else.

    • End user clinician who is trying to record something and all of a sudden his favorite concept has disappeared.

Jim Case to work with SI tech team to inactivate existing WAS A relationships
Jim Case to communicate to content team that WAS A relationships no longer have to be maintained
Anne Randorff Højen, Jeff Pierson (Unlicensed) and Brian Carlsen to begin to develop use cases of concept life cycles and needed historical relationships
Jeremy Rogers (Unlicensed) to provide examples of existing historical relationships of questionable correctness

 

Adjourn

1700h

 

 

 

April 9, 2019

 

Call to order and role call

Notice of recording

Conflicts of Interest

0900 - 0905h

Jim Case

 

 

 

Resolving the finding/disorder conundrum

0905 - 1030h

Matt Cordell

Former user (Deleted)

Background document:

 

 

 

Break

1030 - 1100h

 

 

 

 

Proposed SNOMED CT Content Strategy

1100 - 1230h

Jim Case

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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