Tony,

The disease (based on SNOMED) and medication coding (whatever they are
calling it now) are both in progress ..."real soon now"

Michael

Tony Lembke wrote:
> 
> On 01/03/2007, at 8:39 PM, David Guest wrote (in an ironic tone) :
> 
>> They're good aren't they?
>>
> 
> Actually, David (and David), I agree with Michael and think the standard
> is much needed and appropriately comprehensive.
> As well as providing a standard for referrals, it would appear to set up
> possible standards for  e-prescribing and for a basic EHR.
> The sample referral (Chapter 4.2) demonstrates a subset of the complete
> set tha includes most of the usual fields a developer would require for
> implementation.
> I'm  unclear on the subject of disease and medication coding - the
> standard specifies data type 'Codeable Text', but the sample uses plain
> text. There is no field that I can see for indicating what
> classification system is being used. Perhaps someone else gets it.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony Lembke
> 
> 
> 
> 
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