Welcome and role call

Introductions

Bruce Goldberg

Bruce Goldberg

Marie-Alexandra Lambot

• Review published Allergy implementation guide and tool
• Marie-Alexandra Lambot to present implementation tool develeoped by Alejandro

SNOMED and LOINC - representing allergy testing in SNOMED

Farzaneh Ashrafi

• 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(or annotation--when the functionality is available) to the grouper concepts to indicate the fact that RAST is an outdated/often not-applicable, though still highly used term to refer to these tests.

Marie-Alexandra Lambot

Desensitization therapy.pptx

Bruce Goldberg

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

Bruce Goldberg