Details
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Change Request
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Resolution: Persuasive
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Medium
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SMART Health Cards: Vaccination and Testing (FHIR)
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0.6.2
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Public Health
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Qualitative lab result findings [deprecated]
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16.20.1
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Max Mesnick/Craig Newman: 27-0-2
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Enhancement
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Non-compatible
Description
Qualitative lab results can be coded in either LOINC or SNOMED, with a virtually identical set of codes for either system. For ease of use, especially on the verifier side, we should pick one.
The LOINC codes are free to use internationally. The SNOMED codes in the value set are released as part of GPS, so there should also be no licensing issues prohibiting the use of SNOMED internationally. It has been suggested that IIS in the US already use SNOMED for qualitative lab result reporting, therefore I'm suggesting we normalize on SNOMED. An alternative would be to favor LOINC.
Some discussion here: https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/284830-smart.2Fhealth-cards/topic/Lab.20Results.20Value.20Set