NZ Health Terminology Service (NZHTS)

Communities Standards
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Our new terminology service is live this week - read about it and register as a user:

NZHTS is also listed in the Hira marketplace

Register to become one of our first users and contact us here or at standards@health.govt.nz with any enquiries

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This is great news Alistair!
I note, however, that it’s not intended for use in frontline health care systems (… does not have the high availability, performance and operational support needed for production use in frontline health care systems…).
Are there plans to support this in the future, or is the expectation for vendors to build and license syndicated Ontoserver access?

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It’s the latter situation, Jens - a vendor would need to stand up their own local terminology server for frontline use, set up to receive code set updates from NZHTS. The update process can be automatic or manual depending on the software you use. Ontoserver can obviously process its own feeds, but other products should be able to as well. And I believe we’ll see an open standard for these feeds appearing in the near future. In any case, we’ll be establishing a regular release cycle, with release notes detailing the new and updated content.
In the meantime, I can issue you an API client id for your use in development, just let me know.

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More to explore on terminology services

Thank you Michael, Luke, Kate, Kylynn, Attilia, Dion, Ming and your other CSIRO colleagues

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NZHTS connectathon workshop slides csiro-hinz-nzhts-connectathon.pdf (1.7 MB)

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NZHTS launch slides
NZHTS DHWNZ 2022.pdf (2.5 MB)