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 ballot for the new server deployment for the central terminology server of the MII runs until 2024-10-20. Please comment! More information here.

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...

Tools

BabelFSH

BabelFSH is a tool to provide HL7 FHIR Terminology resources from disjoint sources. It uses the FSH language to define metadata, and a flexible plugin architecture to define the content of the resources from master files or APIs.

DFN Proxy

This small web proxy allows you to deploy a single endpoint in your ecosystem to connect securely to the central Ontoserver provided by the Service Unit Terminological Services. It will handle authentication using your client certificate transparently, so you don’t have to bother with this in your client code.

WASP

WASP is an acronym for Web Application supporting SNOMED CT Postcoordination. For this, WASP utilizes the SNOMED CT Machine Readable Concept Model and supports the SNOMED CT Expression Template Language. This work was published in a 2023 paper in Applied Sciences.

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Most recent questions and answers (FAQ)

User certificate setup

Access protection using mTLS 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 certifica...

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. Access protection using...

Certificate request process

Access protection using mTLS 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 certifica...

How and why to use CodeSystem/$find-matches

The FHIR service $find-matches is used to search a CodeSystem on the basis of defined properties. The result is a set of codes that match the properties. The following CodeSystem has been defined ...

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Latest posts

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. This situation is due to our server being operated within the HiGHmed project in the past. With the start of the current funding phase of the MII in January 2023, an independent 2b project was established to professionalize the operation of this server and to expand the target audience to the entire MI...

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MII Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ)

Services

Access to the server

Licenses

Onboarding

Requesting content uploads

Terminological Content

Terminological Services

Tools

BabelFSH

DFN Proxy

WASP

Most recent questions and answers (FAQ)

User certificate setup

Syndication (certificate) setup

Certificate request process

How and why to use CodeSystem/$find-matches

Latest posts

Balloting of the central MII terminology server

Workshop 'Ontoserver' in July 2024

Publication of the book "Referenzterminologie SNOMED CT"

Terminology Server Challenge @ GMDS 2023

MII Service Unit Terminological Services (SU-TermServ)