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Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie (DGMS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH)

08.09. - 13.09.2024, Dresden

Development of a SNOMED CT Mapping Process and Tool at a Data Integration Centre – Lessons Learned

Meeting Abstract

  • Andrea Riedel - Medical Center for Information and Communication Technology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
  • Noemi Deppenwiese - Medical Center for Information and Communication Technology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
  • Lucas Thiele - Medical Center for Information and Communication Technology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany
  • Hans-Ulrich Prokosch - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
  • Annalena Herzog - Medical Center for Information and Communication Technology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany

Gesundheit – gemeinsam. Kooperationstagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (GMDS), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sozialmedizin und Prävention (DGSMP), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi), Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie (DGMS) und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Public Health (DGPH). Dresden, 08.-13.09.2024. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2024. DocAbstr. 792

doi: 10.3205/24gmds056, urn:nbn:de:0183-24gmds0562

Veröffentlicht: 6. September 2024

© 2024 Riedel et al.
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Gliederung

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Introduction: 16 million German-language free-text laboratory test results are the basis of the daily diagnostic routine of 17 laboratories within the University Hospital Erlangen. As part of the Medical Informatics Initiative, the local data integration centre is responsible for the accessibility of routine care data for medical research. Following the core data set, international interoperability standards such as FHIR and the English-language medical terminology SNOMED CT are used to create harmonised data. To represent each non-numeric laboratory test result within the base module profile ObservationLab, the need for a map and supporting tooling arose. State of the Art Due to the requirement of a n:n map and a data safety-compliant local instance, publicly available tools (e.g., SNAP2SNOMED) were insufficient.

Concept and implementation: Therefore, we developed (1) an incremental mapping-validation process with different iteration cycles and (2) a customised mapping tool via Microsoft Access. Time, labour, and cost efficiency played a decisive role. First iterations were used to define requirements (e.g., multiple user access).

Lessons learned: The successful process and tool implementation and the described lessons learned (e.g., cheat sheet) will assist other German hospitals in creating local maps for inter-consortia data exchange and research. In the future, qualitative and quantitative analysis results will be published.

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

The authors declare that an ethics committee vote is not required.