MII Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ)

SU-TermServ is a project within the grant scheme of the Medical Informatics Initiative in Germany. The aim of the project is the deployment and operation of a central terminology server for the MII and the Network University Medicine.

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The new production server of the SU-TermServ is live! More information here, the server is available here. The old server will be shut down at the beginning of next year!

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Services

Access to the server

To get access to the server, you will need to contact the University Hospital Cologne to arrange for access. Access can be granted only to persons and legal persons in Germany. Please send the s...

Licenses

This page is intended to provide an overview of the licensing terms, especially of CodeSystem resources, offered on the terminology server of the SU-TermServ. However, this is not legal advice. T...

Onboarding

SU-TermServ offers regular “onboarding” sessions to inform DICs and interested parties about the work and objectives of the project. The onboarding sessions take place, if required, on the first F...

Requesting content uploads

Preamble The SU-TermServ is responsible for the maintenance of a instance of Ontoserver, which is currently hosted via the University of Cologne. Access is regulated through a contract. Resource...

Terminological Content

Preferably, all ValueSets (VS) and CodeSystems (CS) are located on the central ontoserver in Cologne, which are linked in defined FHIR profiles via binding mechanisms. As a starting point, the FHI...

Terminological Services

According to the FHIR terminology module, all terminological services defined here are supported by the ontoserver as needed and can be used by interested users via API: CodeSystem-lookup Cod...

Latest posts

HL7 Germany FHIR and Terminology Community Days 2024

2024-12-05

Download practical exercise The Postman collection is available on GitLab. The certificate is available here until Wednesday. At the FHIR and Terminology Community Days, organized by HL7 Germany, SU-TermServ will be represented with a contribution. The focus of the presentation will be on the terminology servers provided by SU-TermServ, which are of central importance for the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) and the Network of University Medicine (NUM) in partic...

The new production server of the SU-TermServ

2024-11-12

Since November 11, 2024, the new production server of Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ) is operational. With this, the SU-TermServ now provides a powerful platform for delivering ...

Balloting of the central MII terminology server

2024-09-04

In recent years, the central terminology server for the MII, which is operated by the SU-TermServ, has been available at the address https://terminology-highmed.medic.medfak.uni-koeln.de/fhir. The...

Workshop 'Ontoserver' in July 2024

2024-06-27

On Wednesday, July 10, 2024, a workshop on the topic “Central Terminology Server for MII & NUM: Actual state in 2024” took place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The slides are now available below: ...

Tools

Most recent questions and answers (FAQ)

Syndication certificate setup

Ontoserver is able to distribute content on the server to other servers. This process is called syndication, more information can be found in the Ontoserver documentation. Current situation ...

What is mTLS (Mutual TLS)?

The instance of Ontoserver that is hosted through the SU-TermServ is protected using Mutual TLS. This means that with every access to the endpoint, a mutual certificate exchange takes place, so yo...

Firefox shows blank pages

When using Mozilla Firefox, applications like Shrimp, Snapper, or OntoCommand may be unable to access the FHIR resources. In Shrimp, the page framework loads, but no content is displayed. In OntoC...

User certificate setup

This article demonstrates how to set up your certificate in a browser. Current situation with GÉANT and Sectigo In the last few days, it became known that Sectigo terminated its...