Running some tests on our API’s and our test engine started flagging a series of invalid SNOMED CT codes.
Majority are fine but noticed
Systolic codes coming back as 114311000006111 instead of 72313002 which is what is used in transaction API.
Diastolic comes back as 619931000006119 instead of 1091811000000102
We’re starting to look at automating clinical decision support and so valid UK SNOMED CT is becoming important to us.
We’re also looking at aggregating records from multiple sources … so again clinical coding is an obvious of aggregating data (i.e. to get a complete view of patient blood pressures).
Anyone know what these codes are (SNOMED description id’s?) or just local codes.
I wonder if it’s something from TRUD. Bizarre why neither read code and SNOMED CT code is in the API. Clinical coding is one of the basic requirements in interoperability and has been followed by EMIS for years.
Some of those codes are the same as SNOMED description id - which might be a clue who asked for this in the API.