Representing Patient Allergies and Intolerances; Food Substances

Type	Standard / Implementation Specification	Standards Process Maturity	Implementation Maturity	Adoption Level	Federally required	Cost	Test Tool Availability
Standard	SNOMED CT®	Final	Production		No	Free	N/A

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration	Applicable Value Set(s) and Starter Set(s)
Feedback is requested as to the extent the suggested value sets using SNOMED CT parent and child codes for food allergens are sufficient to meet the needs for starter value set.	Adverse Clinical Reaction (2.16.840.1.113883.3.2074.1.1.30) (SNOMED CT® value set) Propensity to adverse reactions to food (disorder) (SNOMEDCT 418471000) is parent SNOMED CT code to: Food allergy (disorder) (SNOMEDCT 414285001) Food intolerance (disorder) (SNOMEDCT 235719002) Food Allergen (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1156.1) (SNOMED CT® value set-Steward Partners Healthcare) Common dietary substances for allergy and intolerance documentation (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1186.3) (SNOMED CT® value set-Steward HL7 Patient Care Work Group)

Limitations, Dependencies, and Preconditions for Consideration

Applicable Value Set(s) and Starter Set(s)

Feedback is requested as to the extent the suggested value sets using SNOMED CT parent and child codes for food allergens are sufficient to meet the needs for starter value set.

Adverse Clinical Reaction (2.16.840.1.113883.3.2074.1.1.30) (SNOMED CT® value set)
Propensity to adverse reactions to food (disorder) (SNOMEDCT 418471000) is parent SNOMED CT code to:
- Food allergy (disorder) (SNOMEDCT 414285001)
- Food intolerance (disorder) (SNOMEDCT 235719002)
Food Allergen (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1156.1) (SNOMED CT® value set-Steward Partners Healthcare)
Common dietary substances for allergy and intolerance documentation (2.16.840.1.113762.1.4.1186.3) (SNOMED CT® value set-Steward HL7 Patient Care Work Group)

Comment

Submitted by mattreid on 2020-03-26

The AMA requests that the…

The AMA requests that the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code set be added to the standards listed in Section I: Representing Patient Allergies and Intolerances; Food Substances. The Allergy and Clinical Immunology CPT codes (95004 – 95199) identify patient assessment and intervention for allergy testing, ingestion challenge testing, and allergen immunotherapy, including food substances. CPT is a comprehensive and regularly curated uniform language that accurately describes medical, surgical, and diagnostic services and provides for reliable communication among users. It has an extremely robust and mature development process with open and transparent meetings and clinical input from national medical specialties and relevant stakeholders. It is the most widely adopted outpatient procedure code set. Use of the CPT code set is federally required under HIPAA.

Submitted by gldickinson on 2020-10-23

Preserving Clinical Context

General Comments: USCDI specifies lots of clinical data classes and data elements

Resolving to myriad de-coupled fragments
With vanishingly little focus on:
- Clinical context and vital inter-relationships, e.g., between problems, diagnoses, complaints, symptoms, encounters, allergies, medications, vaccinations, assessments, clinical decisions, orders, results, diagnostic procedures, interventions, observations, treatments/therapies, referrals, consults, protocols, care plans and status...
- Elements and context + purpose of capture: e.g., blood pressure, its measurement (systolic, diastolic), its unit of measure (mm/Hg), its reason for capture, its context of capture (sampling site, sampling method, patient position, at rest/during/post exercise...

It is crucial to consider and determine/resolve how clinical content and context are bound together and preserved in USCDI. The ultimate end user (often a clinician) must be able to readily discern context and inter-relationships – otherwise USCDI places an undue (and often unresolvable) burden on this user. Only the source EHR/HIT system can structure clinical content and context properly. Once data is stuffed into the USCDI framework and related exchange artifact (e.g., FHIR resources) this opportunity is forever lost.