Minutes from HL7 Vocabulary TC February 22 Conference Call Participants: Stuart Nelson, Ed Hammond, Jim Cimino, Stan Huff, Tom Oniki, Rob Hasuam, Shaun Shakib, Sarah Ryan, Alan Sim, Harold Solbrig, Chris Chute, Brian Levy, Rob McClure, Peter Elkin, Jim Case, Peter MacIsaac, David Sperzel, Joan Kapusnik 1. Agenda Check - Jim Cimino Modifications made as below. 2. Registered Vocabularies - Ed Hammond Ed Hammond will post them to the Web. 3. Progress on Clinical Drugs - Steve Brown, Stuart Nelson, Stephen Weitzman, Randy Levin Appelon is building a quick-and-dirty semantic normal form editor to help editors insert terms into UMLS. Drug forms are in the UMLS (as per the list Stuart sent on October 19th). Proposed additions appear to qualify as devices. Stuart requests that we freeze additions to the forms table until the medication descriptiosn have been added to the UMLS. Stuart will then present the ones that didn't work well and didn't get used. However, these terms were needed for drug descriptions. What about terms acutally used by drug companies? This is maintained by the FDA, although it is not clear what kind of editorial proc3ess the FDA would like to have, moving forward. We will await input from Randy Levin. 4. Routes of Administration - Robert Hausam, Stan Huff, Shaun Shakib, Rob McClure Rob Hausam reviewed the spreadsheet, Rob McClure corrected some errors. They believe it can't sent for RIM harmonization. Stan and Shaun will wait until the end of Monday for comments. This item appears to now be resolved and will be removed from furhter discussion. 5. Preferred (Short) Names for Combination Drugs - Alan Rector This issue referes to the need for simple names (such as would appear on a picklist) are needed. In general, these might be ingredient/strength conjunctions, but vitamins and herbals will need some other solution. Rob McClure, Joan Kapusnik and Peter MacIsaac will attempt to develop a proposal. 6. Centralized Terminology Services - Harold Solbrig Harold has sent around a draft document, received comments, and is preparing a new document. He is willing to extend the woprk (including coordination with RIM harmonization) but wants to make sure that the committee's expectations are in line with what he is proposing. Stan recommends that the proposal be taken to the RIM Harmonization meeting. 7. HL7 letter of support for Terminology Services grant proposal - Stan Huff Stan to do this. 8. Updates and enhancements to Good Vocabulary Practices - Karen Eckert, Ed Hammond, Chris Chute This has been done - Ed will post documents to web site. 9. Class codes and other codes - Jim Case There are 87 class codes; 50% do not have definitions, but Jim has obtained definitions on all but 2. Do class codes need code domains under them in order to be expanded? Stan beleives that new classes (with class codes) are required when a new attribute is required. New *values* for attributes would merely be new instances of the class. 10. Material Forms - Jim Case This was done to support physical forms, not orderable drug forms; however, there is overlap. Stan explained how the same concept could be in different domains with the same copde but alternate names. 11. Submissions for RIM Harmonization - Stan Huff Stan will send a message to the list to request input. Call was adjourned at 12:10PM EST. The next conference call will be Friday March 15 at 11:00 a.m. EST, 8:00 a.m. Pacific. Agenda and instructions are below. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Agenda for February 22 1. Agenda Check - Jim Cimino 2. Registered Vocabularies - Ed Hammond 3. Progress on Clinical Drugs - Steve Brown, Stuart Nelson, Stephen Weitzman, Randy Levin 4. Preferred (Short) Names for Combination Drugs - Alan Rector, Rob McClure, Joan Kapusnik, Peter MacIsaac 5. Centralized Terminology Services - Harold Solbrig 6. HL7 letter of support for Terminology Services grant proposal - Stan Huff 8. Updates and enhancements to Good Vocabulary Practices to be posted - Ed Hammond 9. Submissions for RIM Harmonization - Stan Huff ----------------------------------------------------------------- As a cost saving measure, HL7 is no longer using a toll free number. To participate in the call, use the following number and passcode: Dial In#: 952-556-2822 Passcode: 5361757 If this new policy would prevent you from participating in the conference call due to the toll charge, please contact Sue Dressel sue@hl7.org and she can forward a toll free number for you to use. If you are joining from an international location and can not participate in the call due to this policy, you should use the toll number with the passcode, but then submit the call to HL7 for reimbursement. --- To access the Mailing List archives, go to: http://lists.hl7.org/lyris.pl?enter=vocab