Minutes - Referral WG 2022-02-01

Attendees

• Dr Alain Derom
• Bart Decuypere
• Frederik Lenaerts
• Hans De Keersmaecker
• Jean-Michel Polfiet
• José Costa Teixeira - joined late
• Karlien Erauw
• Kristof Jaubin
• Lotte Adriaensen
• Olivier Lothaire
• Peter Laridon
• Philippe Cauchie
• Sven Bisaro
• Thibault Mahieu
• Tom Fiers
• Tom Tollenaere
• Yulia Shornikova
• Werner De Mulder

Excused/Not present

• Alexis Van Zeveren
• Benny Verhamme
• Frédéric Istace
• Frederik De Kegel
• Filip Migom
• Hendrik De Moor
• Joost Van Averbeke
• Jos Bellen
• Mieke Buckinx
• Nick Hermans
• Nico Vannieuwenhuyze
• Paul Neyens
• Richard Francken
• Robert Nicolas
• Roland Vueghs
• Theo Schumacher
• Toon Schiemsky
• Richard Francken
• Stefan Waegemans
• Veerle Claessens

Agenda

• Discuss and resolve open issues

Minutes

• Up-to-date list of issues can be consulted here
• Issue #75: not put clinical information in the narrative - is confirmed
• Issue 64 & 65: proposed solution of Annotation Code has been tested and seems ok

• Issue 87: new issue raised by Thibault

• linking requests to multiple specimens
• FHIR int'l specification: cardinality is 0:1 so max 1 specimen - int'l specification cannot be

• add field to put additionalSpecimens
• every lab does this daily so we need to check how this is dealt with internationnally
• do we need to link the results to the sample ?

• Issue 86: UCUM vs display value

• unit is the display value, code contains the UCUM unit

• Issue 81: ObservationInterpretation coding system

• limit to HH - H - N - L -LL which is a subset of the indicated codeSystem https://terminology.hl7.org/3.0.0/CodeSystem-v3-ObservationInterpretation.html
• this one can be used now

• Thibault would like to add A and AA to the list - will be added

• other values could be added later on

• Issue 82: add the use of Quantity:code/unit to guidance

• the use of Quantity:code is mandatory and will be used by the visualizer, the use of Quantity:unit is optional
• the Guidance will be modified soon

• Issue 83: use of eHealthBox metadata

• not related to FHIR so a N/A issue for this WG
• when sending a prtocol some metadata will be sent

• HC-FunctionalType= "fhir-lab"
• CM-GeneratingSoftware= ""
• CM-GeneratingSoftwareVersion= ""

• Issue 21: still open because it has impact on the LabOrder

• will be dealt with once we start with structured requests/orders

• Action items:

• check out issue on multiple specimens and how this is dealt with at int'l level since cardinality is 0:1

Next Meeting: on Tuesday Feb 15 4PM

Meetings are happening again biweekly