RE: Minutes of last week's (Dec 2) HL7 ITS RDF Subgroup / W3C HCLS COI call -- Review of FHIR ontology approaches (cont.)

 

If every FHIR element was mapped to a snomed term, then you could represent that in RDF no problems.

 

VK> Would propose that FHIR could be the hub – and we could leverage RDF/OWL constructs to map FHIR elements to Snomed, MedDRA, ICD11, RxNorm, etc.?

 

However the problem with this is that we already have a slot for mapping an element to it's snomed code, but there are hardly any snomed codes that are appropriate. 

 

VK> Not sure if I understand this – If no Snomed codes are appropriate for a particular FHIR element – then we can request the IHTSDO folks to create a new one, no?

        Also, if the RDF/OWL metamodel gives us the language to express more general relationships – we may not want to use a specific slot for a Snomed code? Or we can perhaps

       Create an axiom linking the values of the snomed code based on the sameAs/subClassOf relationship for a particular terminology, e.g., Snomed?

 

Thanks,

 

---Vipul