Daniela, this is great news. There is an active work going on right now. I am just in the process of confirming the exact work group.
Stay tuned.

Andrea

Hi Andrea,

I am a Clinical Terminologist primarily using SNOMED CT for coding, and I am interested in this pathology work if there is a working group in the future.

Thank you,
Daniela

As discussed at the January 9 HL7 community meeting:

Infoway has received a request to support the SNOMED CT encoding of the CAP cancer checklists and protocols in support of electronic synoptic pathology reporting. The CAP checklists and protocols represent the clinical content standard for cancer pathology reporting in Canada. Canada is now working cooperatively to adopt standardized encoded data elements with >60 countries worldwide to align these data elements with the next update to the WHO Blue books.

In Canada, we have historically used LOINC/pCLOCD to encode the questions in checklists such as these and SNOMED CT to encode the answers. The Regenstrief Institute has recently made great strides in terms of creating LOINC codes for the “questions” in this clinical content standard. (LOINC codes 85904-1 and 85905-8 are two great examples). There is also work being led in the USA with various pathology organizations, SNOMED International and other SNOMED CT member countries to SNOMED CT encode these checklists and protocols.

The encoding of Pathology reports to this level is a relatively new endeavour in Canada and Infoway is seeking interest in this work.
We are also interested to understand if the current model (LOINC for the question and SNOMED CT for the answer) is relevant for the discrete reporting of cancer pathology.

We would like to hear from you before March 1, 2018 regarding potential interest in the work and the preferred model (using LOINC and SNOMED CT) for the coding.

Thank you.

Regards,

Andrea