Four documents in the document section: Deb 22 2018 agenda Caries spreadsheet Caries review 2018 workplan These will be used for various parts of our meeting-refer to the agenda.
Changes to Special Interest Groups Dear all, SNOMED International has in the past engaged with clinical groups through the use of Special interest Groups (SIG’s). Currently we have six clinical SIG’s and 2 functional SIG’s. Whilst this has proven effective in the past, it is also an approach that is not saleable. There are a number of issues relating to why this is the case that are detailed in the presentation – The future of SIGs v1.1, available in Documents. The changes to the wa
There is a bad inheritance for concept 17552000|Dental calculus (disorder)|. It is due to the "associated morphology = calculus (morphologic abnormality" being in a separate hierarchy from the parent's "associated morphology = accretion (morphologic abnormality)". I was trying to fix this and wondered if "calculus" is really the correct morphologic abnormality to be using in the dental context. It seems to be a hardening of the plaque deposit and that maybe it would be better to add a n
Will there be a face-to-face meeting in SF in march? I remember that we should consider how many were likely to participate before deciding. How was the feedback?
I have added the email string concerning caries representation with a primary focus on whether we have the terms in appropriate hierarchies. Penni has added other comments and suggestions in the topic effective caries representation
I have made a change to a morphologic abnormality 804000009|External hypertosis (morphologic abnormality), I added a new parent of "Neoplasm, benign (morphologic abnormality)". While looking through the impacts of this change I came across "Enamel spur" which has been modeled with "Osteophyte (morphologic abnormality)" which is a subtype of "804000009|External hypertosis (morphologic abnormality)". My question is, what is the correct morphology for "Enamel spur"? Osteophyte doesn't see
Please post your thoughts on how to properly represent dental caries in waht would be the most effective manner that you can identify for use in electronic records system. There are currently at least two international models for caries. Both of these, if represented exactly as the models, might prove less effective within SNOMED. Please post your thoughts and what you believe to be the most important considerations here so that others can review and comment on t hem. By Tuesday, Dec
Just wanted to share this with all of you. Norway has finally decided to join IHTSDO! The decission is announced in Norwegian on this web-page https://ehelse.no/nyheter/norsk-medlemskap-i-ihtsdo To me this is an important step towards being able continue the work with SNOMED CT.
These have not been consistently used in concepts representing plural and singular. If we say "Appearance of gingivae (observable entity)" is it necessarily plural and should it have a subtype of "Morphology of gingiva (observable entity)". Would this be singular? This is my attempt at using the Discussions to note things that need to be looked at as we add or model content. We'll see how it works. :-)
New Zealand has a national electronic oral health record project that will introduce a new generation of information systems to dental services in public hospitals. Naturally we will want to introduce SNOMED CT, but we are looking for advice on the best content and implementation resources available.
Mark Jurkovich