Friends:
As you know, we have been working on standard vocabularies for oncology for a few years now. We have made a ton of progress, but there are still a lot of questions: ICDO4 is on the horizon, HemOnc is evolving and needs better integration, OMOP Genomic needs a refresh, radiotherapy and other procedures typical for oncology need to be figured out. The list is long, and the needs are growing. It’s time to come together to prioritize and plan.
We’re proposing a working session during the Vocabulathon to focus on this. There is a bottom up approach starting from what’s available in the data, and there is a top down approach looking what we need in the use cases. We would like to take the top-down approach to get the biggest bang for the buck. Our goal is to define a clear list of required elements by category, along with their priority based on importance and urgency for active or upcoming use cases.
To get started, we’re asking the community to contribute:
- Review the use case list and add any additional use cases you’re working on. This will guide our discussion and help shape the roadmap for vocabulary development, integration and maintenance.
- Join us on October 7 for this session. We’ll dig into the use cases and begin drafting a roadmap to guide future vocabulary work.
Looking forward to working through this together.