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Start working with ICD-10-CM terminology in Aidbox |
ICD-10-CM is a large medical terminology which can be used in FHIR ValueSet resources. It is distributed under a license which you have to set up with them.
We provide out-of-the box integration with ICD-10-CM through Aidbox Configuration Project. You may start using it after we make sure you have the required ICD-10-CM license.
To correctly set up Aidbox, we'll utilize the Aidbox configuration projects.
There's an existing guide for this process. Adhere to this guide, but note a variation when you reach the Configure the Aidbox
step: instead of using the recommended configuration projects (R4,R4B,R5,etc.) — clone this specific project:
git clone \
https://github.com/Aidbox/aidbox-project-template-icd10cm.git \
aidbox-project && \
cd aidbox-project && \
rm -rf .git
This project is tailored with specific configurations essential for terminology loading.
ICD-10-CM is distributed under a license which means that we can not redistribute it without making sure that other people have this license. You can confirm your eligibility for accessing ICD-10-CM by contacting Aidbox team. See our contacts here.
If you already have a configuration project, you can replicate these steps to enable ICD-10-CM terminology in your Aidbox instance.
{% code title="zen-package.edn" %}
{:deps {icd10cm "https://github.com/zen-fhir/icd10-cm.git"}}
{% endcode %}
By adding this dependency, we instruct Aidbox to load the zen.fhir
ValueSet definition, which is meant to include all codes from ICD-10-CM. This ValueSet definition contains a specific directive detailing the FTR manifest. Aidbox'll use this manifest to input the actual ICD-10-CM concepts into the database.
{% code title="zrc/icd10-cm.edn" lineNumbers="true" %}
{ns icd10cm,
import #{zen.fhir},
value-set
{:zen/tags #{zen.fhir/value-set},
:zen/desc "This value set includes all ICD-10-CM codes.",
:zen.fhir/version "0.6.0",
:fhir/code-systems
#{{:fhir/url "http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/icd-10",
:zen.fhir/content :bundled}},
:uri "http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/icd-10",
:version "2024",
:ftr
{:module "icd10cm",
:source-url "https://storage.googleapis.com",
:ftr-path "ftr",
:source-type :cloud-storage,
:tag "prod"}}}
{% endcode %}
{ns main
import #{aidbox
config
icd10cm}
…}
Zen requires importing a namespace into the entrypoint to load the ValueSet definition into the definitions store.
By default, Aidbox does not load terminologies into the database as that can take a lot of disk space. This means that full terminology functionality won’t be available until you enable it manually. When you set it to true
, Aidbox will load terminologies into the database on the next startup and start functioning as a fully-featured terminology server.
To achieve that we set ftr.pull.enable
to true in features
map.
{% hint style="info" %}
When adding this feature to existing configuration projects, be mindful. If you include dependencies like hl7-fhir-r4-core
or hl7-fhir-us-core
, Aidbox will load terminologies from these packages, which are sizable. Therefore, loading all the concepts into the database might take a while.
{% endhint %}
{% code title="zrc/config.edn" %}
features
{:zen/tags #{aidbox.config/features}
:ftr {:pull {:enable true}}}
{% endcode %}
When ftr.pull.enable
is set to true
, Aidbox loads concepts asynchronously by default. This means that immediately after starting, there might be no concepts available because they are still loading. To address this behavior, set ftr.pull.sync
to true
.
{% code title="zrc/config.edn" %}
features
{:zen/tags #{aidbox.config/features}
:ftr {:pull {:enable true
:sync true}}}
{% endcode %}
How can you determine if the concepts are still loading or have already loaded? (Usable for async
pulls)
Access the Aidbox UI and navigate to Database
> Running Queries
. Look for a query that includes "_import"
; this query is responsible for loading concepts into your database. Once this query disappears from the list, you can check the concepts in the database. Proceed to Database
> DB Console
and enter the following query:
{% code title="" %}
SELECT count(*) from concept where resource->>'system' = 'http://hl7.org/fhir/sid/icd-10'
{% endcode %}