SPOR URI
danka74 opened this issue · comments
The SPOR URI https://spor.ema.europa.eu/omswi/#/ does not work too well. Will ask SPOR about this...
I will attend the regular meeting of the EMA IOS SPOR Task Force on Monday 12th April. If you want me to bring forward something specific there, please let me know.
Thanks @chgessner , I have sent an email to Panagiotis about this today. In the mean time, I've changed the VS to use the OID.
Reply from SPOR:
We use FHIR for the Product Management System and the Substance Management System in SPOR.
For Product data we have a few data elements which are references to OMS entities. We reference the Location level, therefore use identifiers with a pattern of LOC-XXX. The system value we decided to use is the OMS REST API endpoint for Locations. A similar approach can be used to reference Organisations as well. Please see below examples for refencing a Manufacturer, a Marketing Authorisation Holder and a Regulator:
On MedicinalProductDefinition resource type
<manufacturer>
<identifier>
<system value="https://spor.ema.europa.eu/v1/locations"/>
<value value="LOC-XXX"/>
</identifier>
</manufacturer>
On RegulatedAuthorization resource type
<holder>
<identifier>
<system value="https://spor.ema.europa.eu/v1/locations"/>
<value value="LOC-YYY"/>
</identifier>
</holder>
<regulator>
<identifier>
<system value="https://spor.ema.europa.eu/v1/locations"/>
<value value="LOC-ZZZ"/>
</identifier>
</regulator>
To reference an Organisation the respective identifier would use the Organisations REST Endpoint from OMS:
<identifier>
<system value="https://spor.ema.europa.eu/v1/organisations"/>
<value value="ORG-XXX"/>
</identifier>
The manufacturer, holder and regulator attributes are of type Reference (http://hl7.org/fhir/references.html#Reference) which includes an identifier element of type Identifier (http://hl7.org/fhir/datatypes.html#Identifier). Please see http://hl7.org/fhir/datatypes.html for extra information on data types in FHIR as well.
Please let me know if you’d like more information or have further questions.
So, the SPOR URI is solved, now I'm frankly worried about the Vaccine medicinal product URI: https://ec.europa.eu/health/documents/community-register/html/ looks like the URL for their web pages ("documents" and "html" in the URI looks suspicious) which might change of they update their Content Management System.
Hi. I'd like to understand this - where is this URI used? I think your worry @danka74 is very legitimate
@costateixeira , see https://github.com/hl7-eu/dgc/blob/1c7478605630b32902f0fcde19bae2b436dddb75/input/fsh/terminologies_eu.fsh#L39
The URI is used to identify the code system where the vaccine product codes are provided.
Edit: So, the current URI in the Alias file is just a placeholder until clarity has been reached! The URI in the eHN Subgroup on Semantics document is still "https://ec.europa.eu/health/documents/community-register/html/"
ok thanks I was missing that last clarification. Having a system URL pointing to a ...document/community-register/html seems indeed strange.
I have some changes in my local repo I haven't committed yet. Perhaps it's time, although there are issues.
Just committed the change of URI (which I suspect is wrong!). Further, the registration is not done by EMA but by the EC, so the alias name is not the best.
Perhaps a separate issue should be created for that. Agree the URI doesn't see appropriate for the use