Bruce Goldberg

Bruce Goldberg

• Feedback from CMAG
  
  

  
  

• Question posed as to whether existing allergy to animal source concepts (e.g. dander) should be inactivated with new allergy to animal protein concepts created vs. renaming existing content
  • Group felt that allergy to animal protein was significantly different in meaning to allergy to animal part and thus inactivation and creating new concepts is preferred.
    
    
• Additional discussion required for
  • Allergy to other animal parts such as feathers 
  • Allergy to edible animals
    • It was brought up that animals considered as pets in some countries may be eaten in other countries 
  • Allergy to plants (entire plant vs. seeds, fruit, pollen, etc.)

• Bruce Goldbergto prepare a list of common animal allergies (e.g. cat, dog) in order to finalize proposal

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• It was pointed out that there are existing use cases in the implementation guide.
  • Review of these use cases was started
• Kin-Wah Fung suggested that we work with member countries that have existing or pending projects (e.g. Belgium and Portugal) to determine how our guidance can assist them and to develop additional use cases 
• Kin-Wah Fung also suggested we work aggressively to complete the document by assigning individuals areas to work on with deliverables.

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• Next call TBD

• Zoom Details

   https://snomed.zoom.us/j/934143312?pwd=REVPWFl2Zm56a3AvandGSGxiMXYzQT09

  Meeting ID: 934-143-312