1. Summary Report Project Name: IHTSDO Workbench
Brief Project Description: Development of a collaborative tool to allow maintenance of terminology, mapping to other coding systems, and translation.
Major milestones to date: Refset (6/10), Classifier (5/10)
Projected milestones: Translation module (11/10)
Major release dates: 06/10, 01/11
Contribution date: from 01/09 onwards
Contribution value: 9 person years
The IHTSDO Work bench was procured in January 2009 and made open source at the end of the year in December It represents a total of 9 man years development.
The Workbench is a toolset that enables the collaborative development and maintenance of terminology, mapping of that terminology to other coding systems and the translation of the terminology to other languages. Reference sets are also supported, that enable concepts within the terminology to be grouped and associated with additional information. Reasoning services are also provided, to enable the classification of concepts in the terminology.
The Workbench is currently in use by Nehta for maintenance of their SNOMED CT extension and their AMT (medicines) coding scheme. UKTC are in the process of implementing it to support maintenance and release of their SNOMED CT subsets. IHTSDO are planning to migrate the maintenance and release of the International version of SNOMED CT to the Workbench in July Other Member countries including Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Lithuania and Spain will be using the Workbench to support translation of terms to their languages from early 2011 onwards. Within the US and other countries, Affiliates like Kaiser Perminente and the US Veteran’s Association have initiated projects to implement the Workbench for maintenance of SNOMED and other internal terminologies. NLM are contributing to development of the Workbench and other standards bodies such as HL7 are investigating its use for maintenance of their own terminologies.

2. IHTSDO SNOMED CT Tooling
OHT Project 06/2010
IHTSDO SNOMED CT Tooling
Pressures
Content
Added
Collaboration between Members.
Speed and accuracy of edit and release cycle.
Access to pre-released versions
Improved quality through implementation of workflow
Improved efficiency using workflow.
Sharing of Tooling.
Implementation support and guidance for vendors
Terminology Lifecycle Management
Automated Workflow
Searching, browsing and editing support
Support for Reference sets
Support for cross-mapping
Support for Classification
Build process automation
Change management and conflict resolution
Collaboration tools
Project management and support tools.
Lexical support
Deleted & Changed
Dependencies
Major project deliverables in the last period have been the delivery of reference set functionality and integration of reasoning functionality in the Workbench. A Member’s general release is due in June 2010.
Key projects currently in progress are implementation of a translation module, due in November 2010 and functionality to allow the migration of the International edition of SNOMED CT to the Workbench in December 2010.
The International edition will be migrated to the Workbench in July 2011.
Packaging Editions
Migration to Workbench by contracted Support Service provider – in progress.
Configuration:
XP/Vista/Linux/Mac Desktop
Subversion, Maven, Continua,
Archiva back-end
Milestones
Classifier module complete May 2010
Refset module released June 2010
General release June 2010
Translation module complete Nov 2010
Enhanced authoring complete Dec 2010
SNOMED moved to Workbench July 2011
Statistics
Tooling scaled for 1500 users.
8 general purpose hosting servers available.

3. Major Dates and Deliverables IHTSDO SNOMED CT Tooling
06/2010
3Q11
Migration of
SCT onto the Workbench
2Q11
Mapping tooling for ICD10 ->
General Members Release
1Q11
Migration of SCT – tooling final delivery
Translation tooling final delivery
4Q10
This slide shows the major deliveries of Workbench functionality over the next 12 months.
Migration of SCT - tooling interim deliveries ->
Translation tooling interim deliveries ->
3Q10
General Members Release
Subset and Refset Maintenance delivery ->
Classifier delivery ->