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Dear SNOMED International Implementation Support Team,
Thank you again for the very helpful developer training on SNOMED, Snowstorm Lite, and all the other tools. I found the session extremely valuable.
We are currently running a self-hosted instance of Snowstorm and are evaluating whether it is the best fit for our requirements. In that context, we wanted to ask whether you could share a roadmap or overview of planned and upcoming Snowstorm updates/changes. E.g. we were particularly interested in the status of this PR ISTO-122 ConceptMap upload via FHIR Package by kaicode · Pull Request #655 · IHTSDO/snowstorm · GitHub .
We also have a few technical questions about Snowstorm’s FHIR terminology support:
- We could not find support for `CodeSystem/$find-matches` in the Snowstorm FHIR documentation, so we wanted to ask whether this operation is currently available in the full Snowstorm product or whether it is planned for a future release.
- We understand that `ValueSet/$expand` is supported, including several parameters and SNOMED-specific behaviors, but we are unsure whether it covers all FHIR terminology use cases we need.
- For `ConceptMap/$translate`, we understand that Snowstorm does support translation-related functionality, including SNOMED mapping use cases.
- We also understand that only CodeSystem and ValueSet resources can currently be loaded via FHIR package, and that import of ConceptMaps from FHIR packages is not yet implemented. [github]( snowstorm-simplex/docs/using-the-fhir-api.md at master · IHTSDO/snowstorm-simplex · GitHub )
In our case, this is especially relevant for custom mapping content such as Alpha-ID-SE codes. We would therefore appreciate your guidance on the following:
1. whether our understanding above is correct,
2. whether there is a recommended way to handle custom ConceptMaps in Snowstorm,
3. and whether Snowstorm team is planning to implement those features.
Thank you very much for your support.
Kind regards,
Sarah Michaelsen
MOGIC GmbH
Hi Sara, thank you for your question.
Have you tried the latest SnowstormX release? That project is currently ahead of Snowstorm at the moment in terms of FHIR functionality.
The latest SnowstormX release has the new Snowstorm management dashboard and syndication features that you saw in the Snowstorm Lite project. It also has support for uploading FHIR ConceptMap resources, through the dashboard or via POST.
We will be merging this functionality into Snowstorm in the coming months.
We do not have a documented roadmap for Snowstorm but we are currently working on passing the majority of the FHIR Terminology Ecosystem IG test suite.
Regarding the CodeSystem/$find-maches feature.. we do not yet support this although we would consider adding it. Could you share your use case and how you would expect that endpoint to work?
Kind regards, Kai Kewley