If every FHIR element was mapped to a snomed term, then you could represent
that in RDF no problems.
VK> Would propose that FHIR could be the hub – and we could leverage RDF/OWL
constructs to map FHIR elements to Snomed, MedDRA, ICD11, RxNorm, etc.?
However the problem with this is that we already have a slot for mapping an
element to it's snomed code, but there are hardly any snomed codes that are
appropriate.
VK> Not sure if I understand this – If no Snomed codes are appropriate for a
particular FHIR element – then we can request the IHTSDO folks to create a new
one, no?
Also, if the RDF/OWL metamodel gives us the language to express more
general relationships – we may not want to use a specific slot for a Snomed
code? Or we can perhaps
Create an axiom linking the values of the snomed code based on the
sameAs/subClassOf relationship for a particular terminology, e.g., Snomed?
Thanks,
---Vipul
