Voting on changes to the COST table

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Yesterday in the CDM working group meeting Gowtham finished presenting his proposal #81 detailing changes to the COST table, including:

  • Add person_id and inccurred_date – (design principle)
  • Add incurred_date, billed_date and paid_date
  • Change Cost table structure - from wide to tall. (“normalized”, replace multiple cost columns with with cost_concept_id and cost_source_concept_id)

Voting on this topic is open from now until 12/12/2017 so please take a moment to read the proposal and then vote using the google form.

Clair

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@clairblacketer Should I agree with all or none of them? I love the third point! But I’m not sure with second point…(In Korean national insurance system, I don’t know how to extract incurred_data, billed_data, and paid_date separately from the original database)

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@SCYou It’s totally up to you how you would like to vote :yum: . As far as the dates go, they will be optional fields so if you only have one date you can choose which date field in the table it best aligns with.

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Good news! The voting is now closed on this topic and it was a unanimous yes! This table will be added to an upcoming version of the CDM!

Clair

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For the 4th point on the proposal - there are terms for a “rival CDM” already in LOINC. see here: https://r.details.loinc.org/LOINC/85057-8.html?sections=Comprehensive

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Thanks!

How would the group like to handle the 4th point? By conventions (themis) or constraints (vocabulary and CDM). The 4th point is taking the constraints approach.