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Functions of Terminology Management Service (from OHIE Implementers Guide)

  • Code System Query: Is SNOMED CT available?
  • Concept/Code Validation: Is Code ‘123456789’ in SNOMED CT?
  • Code Translation: What is the LOINC code for clinic A’s ‘CBC’ code?
  • Value Set (Subset) Query: Is the Maternal Health Value Set available?
  • Value Set Resolution: Return the contents of Maternal Health Value Set.

Overview

OCL is designed to increase the interoperability of data by empowering users to link their terminology to international standards, and to collaborate on creating terminology sets that are effective at accelerating convergence on best practices in health care. We are preferentially focused on low-middle income countries (LMIC), where there is a great need and great interest in participating in terminology creation and management.

OCL is designed to fill a gap in low-to-middle income countries (LMIC), where standardized terminology in health informatics is lacking.

Capacity Building

Building capacity in health informatics, healthcare quality improvement and ultimately health outcomes improvement is a fundamental driver of OCL.

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Implementers

Elements of our model (online terminology search, collaborative terminology mapping, centralized curation) have been used by users in 50+ countries in the last year alone. We already have commitments from community, facility, district and national-level platform developers (e.g. CommCare, MedicMobile, OpenMRS, DHIS2), implementing organizations and governments (Government of Rwanda, Partners In Health), a global information exchange initiative (OpenHIE), multi-laterals (WHO eHealth and Knowledge Management), and donors (USAID) to use this platform to support semantic interoperability goals.

OCL thrives on its community of users. We'll post invitations to meet ups, alert you of upcoming community forums for engagement and feedback, and initiate discussions around using and improving OCL.

Your organization is ready!