HL7 TermInfo Course

The HL7 TermInfo Project is specifying standard guidelines for the interface between terminologies and HL7 information models. This course explains the way that both terminologies and information models contribute to meeting requirements for representing and communicating processable meaning (semantic interoperability). The course focuses on the gaps and overlaps between the semantics of HL7 Version 3 and SNOMED Clinical Terms^®. It includes a guided tour of the recommendations in the proposed draft HL7 standard "Using SNOMED CT in HL7 Version 3".

The course outlines some of the relevant features of SNOMED CT^® and HL7 Version 3. However, we recommend those attending this course to preceed it with one our other courses on SNOMED CT^® and HL7.

• Attendees will get more out of this half-day course if it is combined with one or more of our other courses for example:
  • Preceed this course with either the half-day HL7 Clinical Statements Course and the half-day or the full-day HL7 Version Foundation Course to provide a more detailed understanding of the modeling and implementation of HL7 Version 3 based messages.
  • Preceed this course with either the half-day SNOMED CT Introductory Course or the full-day SNOMED CT Foundation Course to provide a more detailed understanding of the terminology aspects of clinical semantics.

Course Ouline

• Background to HL7 TermInfo
• Requirements for semantic operability and semantic interoperability
  • Grammar and language
  • Structure and terminology
• Semantic gaps and overlaps
  • General approaches to overlaps
• HL7 Version 3 and SNOMED CT
  • HL7 Version 3 outline
  • SNOMED CT outline
• Specific TermInfo recommendations
  • Different perspectives and glossary variations
  • Models of Use and Models of Meaning
  • Guidance on SNOMED CT and HL7 Semantic overlaps
  • Common patterns
  • Transformations
  • Vocabulary binding