Laboratory IT
Programme Sponsor
Implementation of the FHIR-SNOMED CT information standard to send new laboratory tests and more accurate patient test results
Implementation of the FHIR-SNOMED CT information standard to send new laboratory tests and more accurate patient test results
Laboratory IT
Abstract
This presentation will explain the long overdue requirement to send new laboratory tests and enhance the data quality, accuracy, and comparability of patient test reporting from laboratories to GP patient records. The current messaging specification (NHS003 PMIP-EDIFACT) can only carry Read Codes which are out of date, have not been maintained for almost ten years and are inherently ambiguous in their design. These codes currently account for a third of all coded patient information in GP patient records and are being used to drive patient care. Unfortunately, laboratories do not have access to SNOMED CT codes that more accurately represent comparable patient test results and new tests dues to the EDFACT technical debt. The SNOMED CT codes have been developed with laboratory specialists to accurately represent the common language across UK laboratories and pathology specialisms.
The presentation will summarise the planned data flow pilots with laboratory middleware suppliers and GP suppliers, to replace the patient test data flow with FHIR messaging and SNOMED CT, and the discovery work the team has conducted to elucidate the key requirements for laboratories to migrate and flow better SNOMED CT codes in support of data-driven care.
Learning Outcomes
Delegates will understand:
- How the information standard enables the sending of new tests electronically and enhances the quality of the patient test results
- What the SNOMED CT PaLM (pathology and laboratory medicine) terminology looks like and how it improves the accuracy of computable test results to drive patient care
- How we can represent more complex structured results in FHIR-SNOMED CT that are machine processable
- What this means in relation to the LIMS implementation, the system architecture and transmission of the data
Speakers
Karim Nashar
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