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COVID-19 Data Coding using SNOMED CT

Category
User guide
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Version
1.2
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
August 2021
This guide provides practical examples of SNOMED CT subsets that can be used to code a variety of COVID-19 related data elements, such as symptoms, risk factors and test results.

Decision Support with SNOMED CT

Category
User guide
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
March 2021
This guide explains how SNOMED CT may be used to support data analytics, and how integrating clinical records with decision support tools can improve the care provided to individual patients by guiding safe, appropriate and effective patient care.

ICD-10 Mapping Technical Guide

Category
User guide
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
December 2020
This document describes the mapping use cases and technical procedures applied to the co-development of a SNOMED CT to ICD-10 map by SNOMED International and the World Health Organization (WHO).

SNOMED CT Search and Data Entry Guide

Category
User guide
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
November 2017
This guide provides advice on searching the content of SNOMED CT to find concepts that represent particular clinical ideas, and entry of relevant clinical information in electronic health records.

SNOMED Glossary

Category
User guide
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
March 2019
This glossary provides consistent definitions for terms in used in SNOMED CT documentation, E-Learning presentations and related materials.

SNOMED CT Terminology Services Guide

Category
User guide
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
September 2020
This document identifies and describes the terminology services required to support effective access to the content and features of SNOMED CT.

Working with SNOMED CT as a Clinician

Information about SNOMED CT and SNOMED International’s clinical engagement initiatives
Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
This factsheet provides an overview of SNOMED CT’s engagement with clinicians.

Working with SNOMED CT as a Vendor

Helping the vendor community extend SNOMED CT functionality and benefits directly to their customers
Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
SNOMED
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
This factsheet provides an overview of SNOMED CT for vendors.

AU Core Implementation Guide

Category
Implementation Guide
Organisation
Sparked
Type
Standard
Version
0.2.2
Access
Open
Status
Draft
This guide supports the implementation of AU Core. It is a working specification that may be directly implemented by FHIR system producers.

Health Care Client Identification

Category
Standard
Organisation
Standards Australia
ID
AS 5017-2006
Type
Standard
Access
Fees apply to access
Status
Superseded
Created
June 2006
This standard is a voluntary code of practice. It provides a framework for improving the positive identification of clients in health care organisations.

Standards for general practices (5th edition)

A benchmark for quality care and risk management in Australian general practices
Category
Standard
Organisation
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
Type
Standard
Version
5
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
July 2017
Updated
February 2023
This document sets out the standards for general practices, developed by the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).

The Unified Code for Units of Measure

Category
Specification
Organisation
Regenstrief Institute
Type
Standard
Version
2.2
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
June 2024
The Unified Code for Units of Measure is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business.

Formal Grammar for UCUM

Category
Specification
Organisation
Regenstrief Institute
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
This resource presents one option to express a formal grammar for UCUM.

Child protection Australia 2021–22

Category
Reference Table
Organisation
AIHW
ID
CWS 92
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
This resource consists of an initial report followed by 3 updates, each focussing on a specific area of interest in child protection systems.

Eye health measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2023: interactive data

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
AIHW
ID
IHW 278
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Updated
December 2023
This set of interactive data visualisations is part of the seventh annual report on the Eye health measures for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (First Nations) people. The interactive data allows allow users to explore the data in more detail and customise the data and figures to meet their information needs.

CDA R2.1 (HL7 Clinical Document Architecture, Release 2.1)

Category
Standard
Organisation
HL7
Type
Standard
Version
2.1
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
2019
This standard is a document markup standard that specifies the structure and semantics of clinical documents for the purpose of exchange between healthcare providers and patients.

CDS Hooks 2.0 Release

Category
Specification
Organisation
HL7
Type
Standard
Version
2
Access
Open
Status
Active
This specification for clinical decision support describes a ‘hook’-based pattern for invoking decision support from within a clinician's workflow.

DICOM Parts 1-22: Bulk Download

Category
Standard
Organisation
DICOM
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
The DICOM Standard is an international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use.

Supplement 210: Paradigm Protocol Storage

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup210
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Draft
Created
November 2018
This draft resource describes the storage of defined and performed paradigm protocols. It also adds a definition of a stimuli object for storage.

Supplement 212: XA Protocol Storage

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup212
Type
Standard
Version
2021a
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
January 2021
This resource defines a pair of storage service-object pair (SOP) classes for distributing defined x-ray angiography (XA) protocols and recording performed XA protocols.

Supplement 213: Second Generation Radiotherapy - Enhanced RT Image and RT Patient Position Acquisition Instruction

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup213
Type
Standard
Version
2022e
Access
Open
Status
Draft
Created
November 2022
This draft resource specifies additional information object definitions (IODs). The IODs support projection images constructed for or acquired at radiotherapy treatment sessions and instructions to acquire images and other artefacts for positioning a patient for radiotherapy treatments.

Supplement 214: Enhanced X-Ray Radiation Dose SR (including Cone-beam CT)

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup214
Type
Standard
Version
2021b
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
March 2021
This resource creates a new information object definition (IOD) with the necessary flexibility to address cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) acquisitions. It defines a generic framework for describing radiation dose among the different CBCT uses.

Supplement 215: Second Generation Radiotherapy – RT Ion Radiation Objects

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup215
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Withdrawn
Created
February 2019
This draft resource specifies additional information object definitions (IODs) needed to support the new Second Generation Radiotherapy IODs and operations. It introduces radiotherapy radiation IODs and radiotherapy radiation set IODs. It also introduces the representation of the C-arm techniques.

Supplement 216: Second Generation Radiotherapy – Brachytherapy Radiation Objects

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup216
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Withdrawn
Created
February 2019
This draft resource specifies additional information object definitions (IODs) needed to support the new Second Generation Radiotherapy IODs and operations. It introduces radiotherapy radiation IODs and radiotherapy radiation set IODs. It also introduces the representation of the C-arm techniques.

Supplement 217: Neurophysiology Waveforms

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup217
Type
Standard
Version
2020c
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
July 2020
This resource introduces some service-object pair (SOP) classes for storage of neurophysiology waveforms. It adds the related neurophysiology information object definitions (IODs) and the necessary neurophysiology waveform context groups.

Supplement 218: MR Protocol Storage

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup218
Type
Standard
Version
2
Access
Open
Status
Draft
Created
January 2020
This draft resource defines a pair of storage service-object pair (SOP) classes for distributing defined magnetic resonance (MR) protocols and recording performed MR protocols.

Sup 219 - JSON Representation of DICOM Structured Reports

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup219
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Draft
Created
January 2020
This draft resource describes a JSON representation of DICOM Structured Reports to allow developers to encode image-derived results.

Supplement 220: Prostate MRI Structured Reporting

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup220
Type
Standard
Version
2021c
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
July 2021
This resource introduces a DICOM Structured Reporting template for encoding a radiologist’s interpretation of a patient’s prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study. The template’s primary purpose is to support linking the annotations of findings with the measurements derived from the findings and qualitative evaluations associated with the findings.

Supplement 221: Dermoscopy

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup221
Type
Standard
Version
2021c
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
November 2020
This resource introduces a new information object definition (IOD) and a new storage service-object pair (SOP) class for encoding and storing dermoscopic images. Dermoscopy is a diagnostic technique that allows visualisation of the morphological structures of the skin.

Supplement 222: Microscopy Bulk Simple Annotations Storage SOP Class

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup222
Type
Standard
Version
2021c
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
July 2021
This resource specifies a new information object and storage service-object pair (SOP) class for storing microscopy bulk simple annotations, referred to as the microscopy bulk simple annotations information object definition (IOD).

Supplement 223: Repository Query, Inventory IOD, and Related Services

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup223
Type
Standard
Version
2022c
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
June 2022
This resource introduces several service-object pair (SOP) classes and an information object definition (IOD) related to production and exchange of medical imaging inventories. These include a new repository query SOP class, a composite inventory IOD and an inventory creation SOP class.

Supplement 224: Service Discovery and Control

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup224
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Draft
Created
March 2021
This draft resource provides mechanisms for discovering and managing processing services in the medical imaging space. It also covers support mechanisms for data exchange with a focus on transaction security.

Supplement 225: Multi-Fragment Video Transfer Syntax

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup225
Type
Standard
Version
2022b
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
April 2022
This resource provides new transfer syntaxes that permit fragmenting video encoding. It responds to the appearance of videos larger than 2^32-2 bytes (for example, procedure video recordings), which previously needed to be split into multiple DICOM instances.

Supplement 226: Cutaneous Confocal Microscopy

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup226
Type
Standard
Version
2023e
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
November 2023
This resource introduces 2 new information object definitions (IODs) and 2 corresponding service-object pair (SOP) classes for encoding and storing confocal microscopy images.

Supplement 227: Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography Structured Report

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup227
Type
Standard
Version
2022c
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
June 2022
This resource introduces a structured report section template for ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) results as well as a general ultrasound report in which it can be used.

Supplement 228: Web Services for Volumetric Rendering

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup228
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
September 2024
This resource introduces volumetric rendering web services to enable certain imagine techniques without having to specify numerous and complex parameters. It applies to volume rendering, maximum intensity projection, and multiplanar planar rendering.

Supplement 229: Photoacoustic Imaging

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup229
Type
Standard
Version
2023e
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
June 2023
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a non-invasive medical imaging modality. This resource introduces a new information object definition and a new storage service-object pair class for encoding and storing PA images.

Supplement 230: Update BCP Secure Communications Profiles

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup230
Type
Standard
Version
2022e
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
September 2022
This resource adds 2 new Secure Transport Connection profiles and retires several others from the DICOM Standard.

Supplement 232: JPEG XL Transfer Syntaxes

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup232
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
September 2024
This resource adds lossless JPEG recompression, lossless JPEG XL, and general JPEG XL Transfer Syntaxes to the DICOM Standard. JPEG XL is also added to the set of rendered formats for DICOMweb.

Supplement 233: Patient Model Gender Enhancements

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup233
Type
Standard
Access
Open
Status
Draft
This resource extends DICOM to add, and harmonise with, the HL7 Gender Harmony logical model and be consistent with the HL7 normative changes.

Supplement 234: DICOMweb Storage Commitment Service

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup234
Type
Standard
Version
2024a
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
January 2024
This supplement defines the means to perform storage commitment in DICOMweb, via the DICOMweb Storage Commitment Service. The service allows a user agent to arrange the safekeeping of instances (such as DICOM images) on an origin server.

Supplement 235: HTJ2K Transfer Syntax

Category
Supplementary Resource
Organisation
DICOM
ID
Sup235
Type
Standard
Version
2023e
Access
Open
Status
Active
Created
November 2023
This supplement adds HTJ2K (High Throughput JPEG 2000 image compression) Transfer Syntaxes to the DICOM Standard.

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