I love running speed tests (especially since getting my NBN connection!). It’s not the fastest but nice to know you’re getting what you expect. Also, when visiting other countries, it’s fun to compare to Australian speeds – for whatever reason.
However, it’s important to remember these speeds are not a … read more...
Last week during the NCTS Connectathon, I was connecting to the CSIRO’s public Ontoserver. Afterwards, I tried connecting to the NTS and remembered that it requires authentication. The NCTS documentation along with accompanying postman collection is helpful, so let’s see how we can do it in C#. The authentication … read more...
An off the shelf terminology solution can save developers a lot of time. However, depending on the feature set offered, you can lose a lot of the capabilities provided by SNOMED CT. Especially so with a FHIR server, whose standardised API supports text searching and subsumption, but little else in … read more...
Today I saw the following enquiry:
“Unfortunately, the software on our automated dispensing cabinets can only accept values up to 15 characters long…”
This is unfortunate, because of the almost 6000 MPUUs in AMT, only 10 are 15 characters or less. And it isn’t the first time the length … read more...
Recently I was shown this curious subhierarchy in SNOMED CT
Beer IS A Ethanol?
My first response was that these things are mixtures. And as such should have a contains or has ingredient type of relationship. Beer contains ethanol.
Which then raises the idea that these things are … read more...
There’s a few ways to work with a FHIR terminology server in C#. My goal in these examples is to find a code (and return the preferred term) with the term “inr” from the SNOMED CT-AU refset 1072351000168102. For all these, I’ll be using the same endpoint:
Since it’s … read more...
This morning I woke up to the news that:
… read more...the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority (IHPA) (is requesting tenders) for a mobile app to improve clinical documentation and coding in patient medical records … that clinicians can use in their day-to-day work and … prompts clinicians to use accurate medical terminology
An regular frustration for me is the misuse of (or more likely just lack of awareness of how to use) version control systems for document management.
If you’re working on documents, and have access to a version control system – don’t suffix the file names. At all. With anything.
That … read more...
The IHTSDO has a preference to define concepts by Closest proximal primitive (CPP) parent(s). I’m yet to be convinced of the benefit of this approach, and prefer stating any obvious parent (regardless of their definition status) along with a set of defining attributes that are independent of whatever parents … read more...
Some time back I learnt of a feature of description logic – general concept inclusions (GCI). It took me a while to get my head around the idea, but I found this post the most effective, at least for me, in understanding what they were about. The first potential application … read more...