Metadata Handbook

IHE Document Sharing Metadata Handbook Formal Publication

See Also

Discussion Forum at IHE Metadata also available on web forum

Globally recognized Vocabulary

• SNOMED from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOMED_CT
• LOINC from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOINC
• DICOM from https://grafimedia.eu/blog/dicom-digital-imaging-communications-medicine/
• RADLEX from http://playbook.radlex.org/playbook-user-guide.pdf

Regional Samples

During the writing of this handbook, various value sets were compared and cross-referenced in a spreadsheet (location?). It has various sheets holding input from projects that were involved. It is informative but is not complete.

IHE Document Class Codes:

• http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php/XDS_classCode_Metadata_Coding_System

IHE Format Codes :

• http://wiki.ihe.net/index.php?title=IHE_Format_Codes&redirect=no

De INT version has a direct link:

• http://art-decor.org/art-decor/decor-project--ihexds-

NL version:

• http://decor.nictiz.nl/art-decor/home
• Navigate to -> DECOR -> Nictiz -> IHE XDS:
• http://decor.nictiz.nl/art-decor/decor-project--ihexds-

ABRUMET version:

• https://gazelle.ehealth.brussels/art-decor/decor-valuesets--abrumetxds-

ehealthsuisse version:

• https://www.e-health-suisse.ch/en/technik-semantik/epr-projectathon/epr-programming-aids/relevant-specifications.html#c3802
• https://ehealthsuisse.art-decor.org/ch-epr-html-20210416T020411/terminology.html

Nictiz – Guide to Interoperability between XDS Affinity Domains 2015

• https://www.nictiz.nl/publicaties/overige-publicaties/guide-to-interoperability-between-xds-affinity-domains-2015

AUSTRIA version:

• XDS metadata specifications :
• https://wiki.hl7.at/index.php?title=ILF:XDS_Metadaten_Guide

Germany version:

• http://wiki.hl7.de/index.php?title=IHE_DE_Cookbook
• http://art-decor.org/art-decor/decor-valuesets--ihede-

FHIR

• Document type codes: http://www.hl7.org/fhir/valueset-doc-typecodes.html
• Document class codes: https://www.hl7.org/fhir/valueset-document-classcodes.html
• Practice Setting codes: http://hl7.org/fhir/valueset-c80-practice-codes.html
• Full list of FHIR valuesets: http://hl7.org/fhir/terminologies-valuesets.html