HTH 121: HEALTH DATA STANDARDS AND
CLASSIFICATIONS
ASSIGNMENT 2: INDIVIDUAL CODING
Submission date: 19th April, 2024
Concept Attribute Value (s) Coded Values Standard
Language Language Code English 297487008 SNOMED CT
French 297499001
N/A Missing Value Other 74964007 SNOMED CT
Reason
Unknown 261665006
Invalid 2655002
Provider Provider Role Medical Doctor 309343006 SNOMED CT
Nurse 106292003
Social Worker 106328005
N/A Service Anesthesiology 310001007 SNOMED CT
Dentistry 722176000
Neuropathology 310079008
Palliative Care 310073009
Pediatric 310066004
Physiotherapy 722140001
Pharmacy 310080006
Psychiatry 310116007
Speech and Language 310101009
Therapy Service
Patient Gender Male 446151000124109 SNOMED CT
Female 446141000124107
Undifferentiated 263918006
Patient Identifier Type Birth Certificate 444561001 SNOMED CT,
FHIR
Health Card number HC
Medical Record number 398225001
Immunization Immunization In Progress in-progress FHIR
Status
On Hold on-hold
Completed completed
Entered in Error entered-in-error
Stopped stopped
Rational:
I looked up most of the data for this assignment using SNOMED CT, but I also had to look up other attributes
using FHIR. In contrast to FHIR, SNOMED CT was simple, available, and detail-oriented. However, FHIR was
difficult to understand and complex when looking for various features. When selecting values from SNOMED-
CT or FHIR, it's critical to take the application's or use case's requirements and context into account.
SNOMED-CT is an extensive clinical terminology intended to express data in healthcare that is clinically useful.
It is excellent at giving medical phrases and notions precise clinical meanings. SNOMED-CT guarantees that
clinical terms have the same meaning in many languages and healthcare systems, which promotes semantic
interoperability. SNOMED-CT is a useful tool for data analysis, decision assistance, and semantic querying
because it identifies relationships between clinical concepts and arranges them into a hierarchical structure.
Because FHIR is intended to be interoperable, it's a great option for exchanging healthcare data between
various organizations and systems. FHIR promotes uniformity and coherence among various healthcare
applications by offering a standardized means of expressing and exchanging healthcare data. FHIR resources
frequently provide a high degree of granularity, making it possible to represent healthcare concepts and
entities in great detail. This may prove advantageous in situations where precise data is needed.
The decision of choosing between FHIR and SNOMED-CT values may be influenced by a number of variables,
including the application's particular requirements, current data standards, interoperability constraints, and
the desired degree of clinical detail. To achieve comprehensive representation and interoperability of
healthcare data, it is often required to combine both FHIR and SNOMED-CT values.
Reference:
HL7. (n.d.). FHIR Terminologies - Systems. Health Level Seven International. Retrieved
from: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/terminologies-systems.html
International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. (n.d.). Browser.
SNOMED CT Browser. Retrieved from: https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/?
perspective=full&conceptId1=404684003&edition=MAIN/SNOMEDCT-CA/2024-02-
29&release=&languages=en,fr
