See http://www.nehta.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,122/Itemid,139/
Worth scrutinising and commenting upon, in writing, to NEHTA (but perhaps comments can be CCed to this list to promote discussion firts?). But don't only send comments to this list, send them to NEHTA as well as formal responses, for goodness sake. and http://www.nehta.gov.au/component/option,com_docman/task,cat_view/gid,151/Itemid,139/ For path test and result codes, it seems like SNOMED CT is where it is going to be at, and the Auspath codes (see ), which are based on LOINC codes, are deprecated, which makes sense to me since LOINC, although freely available, doesn't adequately cover all of health and health care, and ultimately it doesn't make sense to have to build decision support and other information systems which have to deal with one terminology and corresponding set of codes for pathology, another for procedures, another for more general diagnoses, yet another for disabilities and so on. Usual grumbles about the use of Microsoft Excel files as the format used to distribute the draft code sets, when three more clicks by the relevant NEHTA functionary could have rendered the lists as CSV text files, acceptable to everyone. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
