Introduction

Custodians of standardized terminologies have developed rich semantic frameworks that can be used to interact with individual concepts in an elegant fashion, utilizing the relationships between terms to dynamically adjust user interfaces or derive clinical patterns. Today, these frameworks are distributed via proprietary formats, tailored to the specific source terminology, and any system looking to utilize the full semantic power of the terminology must build customized data pipelines to process those formats.

This IG provides profiles and implementation guidance for exchanging terminology change sets that include full semantic detail from the source terminology utilizing the CodeSystem resource. It also addresses exchanging terminology change sets containing provisional concepts not yet incorporated in source terminologies, such as those requiring rapid distribution during a pandemic-response context. Analysis of semantic detail to include in a change set is informed by the Tinkar Standardized Terminology Knowledgebase Reference Model, and mappings from that architecture are included on CodeSystem profiles.

Technical Overview

Additional detail/context setting for those who have significant background in the domain. (Try to make as understandable as you can, but set important context).

The main sections of this IG are:

• Background - provides business context for the implementation guide and information that implementers should be familiar with before reading the remainder of the IG. There could be multiple pages for this.
• Downloads - Allows downloading a copy of this implementation guide and other useful information