Problem with diagnosis

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David Rowen brought up an issue with the modeling of Diagnosis as being a specialized Problem. I concur and the comments in CKM are shown below.

The question is how do these issues get resolved - or will they not get resolved - once modeled can an archetype never change due to architecture e.g. the AQL requires the diagnosis to be in a specific place in a specific archetype so there will be resistance to change?

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David Rowen brought up an issue with the modeling of Diagnosis as being a specialized Problem. I concur and the comments in CKM are shown below.

The question is how do these issues get resolved - or will they not get resolved - once modeled can an archetype never change due to architecture e.g. the AQL requires the diagnosis to be in a specific place in a specific archetype so there will be resistance to change?

it can change, in strictly controlled ways. What cannot change:

  • existing structure & paths,

  • meanings of existing at-codes
    What can change:

  • new structure can be added

  • anything can be done to the meta-data elements, i.e. description, translations etc etc
    These conditions guarantee that queries based on the previous revision of an archetype will not be invalidated by a more recent issue.

  • thomas beale

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Dear All,

The International Health Terminology Standards Development
Organisation announced today that it is making source code for the
IHTSDO Workbench, including tools to develop, maintain, and facilitate
the use of SNOMED CT, freely available under an Apache2 open source
agreement.http://linuxmednews.com/1261512264

Cheers Carol

Dr Carol Hullin| Senior Health Informatics Advisor|

Office of Chief Information Officer | Department of Health

Level 13, 55 Collins Street, Melbourne Victoria 3001

p. 9651 7146 | f. 9651 7204 | e.carola.hullin@health.vic.gov.au | http://www.health.vic.gov.au/healthsmart

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Amazingly wonderful Xmass present!
Merry Xmass!

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Merry X mas to all the community!!!

From a lovely day in Melbourne Australia

Cheers Carol

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Thanks Carol,
We’ve been waiting for this one for quite some time.

Kind regards
Seref

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Dear All,

This is a particularly good and interesting piece of information and news for us in Developing countries like Nigeria.

Thanks Carola for bringing it to our attention.

Best Regards,

Olusegun
Lagos, Nigeria