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Infoway supports organizations and Jurisdictions to publish their Terminology Artefacts on the Terminology Gateway. Once published, jurisdictions are requested to maintain their subsets as part of the Infoway Maintenance Cycle.
These subsets may be leveraged by other organizations and jurisdictions to support interoperability EHR solutions in their organization or jurisdiction.
The subsets developed are vendor-neutral, they support interoperability and decrease the cost of creating and maintaining a a new subset.
SC Code Systems (pan Canadian developed Terminology)
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SCPQUAL
- Used to encode the degree or educational rank of a healthcare provider credential as defined by the various Royal Canadian Professional Medical Collages. It also supports the encoding “Expertise type” in the pan-Canadian version 3 messages
New versions are created as per stakeholder requirements and formal requests
Versions are identified by release date using the YYYYMMDD date format
SCPTYPE
- Used to encode and categorize an entity that delivers health care in an
expected and professional manner to an entity in need of health care services
Examples: Registered Nurse, Chiropractor, Physician, Custodial Care Clinic - Allows for the implementation of role-based access to clinical functions and data
- Provisioning of clinical services is based on the role that a provider may play in the health system
New versions are created as per stakeholder requirements and formal requests.
Versions are identified by release date using the YYYYMMDD date format
- Used to encode and categorize an entity that delivers health care in an
SCPTEMP ( Retired)
- This Code system has been retired
- The SCTEMP was a transitional or temporary CodeSystem supported and maintained by Canada Health Infoway.
- It houses the code(s) required and accepted by Canadian implementers if the implementation cannot wait for the code to be harmonized with the international terminology authority.
- The SCTEMP CodeSystem also served as a source for tracking submissions that need to be made to the various terminology authorities.
- The SCTEMP CodeSystem applies to HL7, non-SNOMED CT and non-LOINC /pCLOCD used within pan-Canadian specifications.
- The SCTEMP is not used for the Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM).
Valusets
A value set is a uniquely identifiable set of valid concepts or terms, where any concept or term representation can be tested to determine whether or not it is a member of the value set.
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