The Regenstrief Institute and IHTSDO are very pleased to announce that the April 2016 Alpha (phase 3) Edition LOINC – SNOMED CT Expression Association and Map Sets – Technology Preview is now available.
The draft file (called a Technology Preview in SNOMED CT lingo) is now available.
You can download the file here.
The Technology Preview files were generated as part of the cooperative agreement signed between the Regenstrief Institute and the IHTSDO in July 2013. (Read more about the collaboration).
The agreement details how SNOMED CT and LOINC will be linked through:
- a map of LOINC terms to post-coordinated SNOMED CT expressions
- a map of LOINC parts to SNOMED concepts
- a map between LOINC terms and existing pre-coordinated SNOMED concepts
- LOINC Answer sets mapped to SNOMED codes; and
- addition of new content in either terminology.
Terms associated with post-coordinated SNOMED CT expressions. This set covers approximately 75% of the LOINC Top 2000 content.
This Technology Preview is available in three formats: RF2, OWL, and human readable. The human-readable format includes artifacts related to items 1 and 5 above, and the RF2 and OWL formats contain artifacts related to items 1, 2 and 5 above.
RF2 Format
The RF2 package contains two content files: a LOINC Term to SNOMED Expression Reference Set and a LOINC Part to SNOMED Reference Set. For each reference set it contains a full release file, a snapshot file and an (empty) delta file.
OWL Format
The OWL package is for reviewing and classifying the content with ontology viewing/editing software such as Protege. This is not an official IHTSDO release format and does not contain metadata such as refset identifier or correlation designation.
Human Readable (Excel) Format
The human readable package contains an Excel spreadsheet for reviewing the map of LOINC Terms to SNOMED CT expressions in a human-readable tabular format. This is not an official IHTSDO release format. It does not show the nesting of the content. The map from LOINC Parts to SNOMED CT concepts is not included in this version because the LOINC Parts are not independently available for public release.
Provide your feedback now
Feedback is requested on the Technology Preview release to inform future development and determine fitness for purpose. Feedback on the formatting of expressions, maps and reference sets is expected; feedback on the content of the expressions or mapping themselves is also welcome. The IHTSDO requests that you please provide feedback by 31 May 2016. You can submit feedback by creating a JIRA Issue on the IHTSDO website.
Note
The Technology Preview is distributed for evaluation purposes only. It is not for use in production clinical systems or in clinical settings. USE WITHIN CLINICAL SYSTEMS CANNOT BE SUPPORTED AT THIS TIME.