Our April 2023 release of new content to the NZ Health Terminology Service (NZHTS) has dropped - see the attached release note
Most of the new content this month comes from the ground breaking efforts of Te Aho o Te Kahu to develop a collection of over 70 reference sets for structured pathology reporting of cancer. Thank you @John_Fountain @linda Natasha Hope and Kate Wakefield
NZHTS release note April 2023.pdf (133.5 KB)
It will be good if/when the SNOMED Int. Managed Service moves away from these Extension (partial) releases and provides complete releases for National Editions as it is a PITA to remove the duplicates caused by NZ-authored concepts that have been promoted to the International Edition still remaining in the NZ Edition.
@alastairk is there a plan to review the ANZSCO coding system formally? I believe there needs to be discussion about future proofing the codes for the evolution of the health workforce.
ANZSCO is managed by Stats NZ and its government counterpart in Australia. They review the code set every so often. The latest is the Australian 2022 update https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/classifications/anzsco-australian-and-new-zealand-standard-classification-occupations/latest-release while Stats NZ remains on a 2019 edition
So we’d need to talk to Stats about new requirements - I’m sure they’d be open to it.
However, we also have our SNOMED reference set of health occupations, which is much more fine-grained for the purpose of describing health workers. ANZSCO by contrast can be used to describe a consumer’s occupation.
Let me know if you’d like to pursue this and @micah_davison (identity standards) and I will follow up
Looking back over our emails @pkjordan, I see we first discussed the ‘dups’ issue in connection with the October 2021 NZ release. I think we agreed that technically the files are fine (and certainly Snowstorm and Ontoserver have no problem loading them) but the issue did point to some idiosyncratic authoring on our part