Re: [Gnumed-devel] ICD10 Plugin

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:51:22PM +0100, Slappinjohn wrote:

> What do you think about?

Yes please !  :-)

So, did you get the database installed ? I assume yes.

> while playing around with GNUmed I realized that there isn't a
> possibility to asign ICD10-codes to diagnosis yet. I was thinking about
> writing a plugin or so, that can do this.

That would be great ! GNUmed could really use a code
browser. I would imagine it works like this:

- user checks which coding system(s) they want to search
- initially there can be just one choice, say ICD10-GM-2008
- the GNUmed middleware can tell you which coding systems
  are available in the backend
- the user types a term
- GNUmed checks which coding systems were activated
  for being searched
- GNUmed checks those coding systems for matches
- the GNUmed middleware can give you those matches
- the user selects one or several of the results
- GNUmed associates the selected result(s) with the term

Now, the "user enters term" part can also happen
programmatically, eg. when the users selects one of the
health issues or episodes for coding. Also, the "which
coding system" part can happen programmatically, perhaps
according to a configuration option.

Don't worry too much about the details in the first
iteration -- just get an idea of where it would be useful to
go eventually.

Examples for other useful coding systems would be:

OPS, ICPC, even EBM or GOÄ.

> In Germany you can get the German Revision of the ICD10 via
> http://dimdi.de as ASCII-File for about 10€ (Maybe the WHO offer it for
> free, I have to look this up) so it should be no problem to import this
> in the database.
Correct. Last years data is even available for free.

Karsten
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