2020-11-24 Anesthesia CRG Meeting

Notes of meeting held on 28 September 2020

2020-10-07 Anesthesia CRG Session - SNOMED for Clinicians Meeting

Minutes of previous meetings were discussed, and considered satisfactory.

The SNOMED for Clinicians meeting was well-attended and Constructive. Work on assessment scales and description of findings such as GCS is continuing. Descriptions of the various points of the GCS have been made.

The approach that the Anesthesia CRG have taken to classification scales will inform the appraoch taken by SNOMED as many other clinical scales (over 1000) are reviewed and represented in SNOMED.

Scales which are restricted by issues such as copyright may not prove suitable for use.

The January Relaease of SNOMED is being prepared for pre-release review. Alaine Wooler and Sarah Warren have joined the team and are welcomed.

Planning of content for the July release is under way.

SNOMED releases are planned to become more frequent, this is being planned.

A community release of SNOMED is being planned, with the intent of becoming more user-friendly. There is intent that this will be a more open undertaking, with potential for collaborative use and development of the resource. Content from the community release may become considered suitable for the international release.

SNOMED's clinical engagement strategy is under development, and planning for the April 2021 meeting is beginning. Education materials may be ready for presentation on the Sunday of the meeting. Meetings for ther CRGs will be planned on subsequent days. The April 2021 meeting may be physical and/ or virtual but this cannot be confirmed. There is a Clinical Leads meeting on 10th December where some of these issues will be reviewed.