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Why would "target" disease be "840539006"? Have there been 840539005 other diseases before? Would "1" not suffice? Or just "covid19"?
by Avalaxy 5y ago
Why would "target" disease be "840539006"? Have there been 840539005 other diseases before? Would "1" not suffice? Or just "covid19"?
- robjan 5y agoIt's the SNOMED code for Covid-19
- altacc 5y agoIt comes from SNOMED, which is a system for electronic health records and is very comprehensive, multi-lingual & multi-national. Every disease, symptom, medical term, etc... has a code which allows matching across languages. I doubt the IDs start at 1, it's likely the fist few digits (perhaps 8405) are a type classification for the ID. It's been going for a few decades and thousands of new IDs are added each year.
- DerWOK 5y ago840539006 is the ID by SNOMED https://www.snomed.org/news-and-events/articles/march-2020-interim-snomedct-release-COVID-19 https://www.snomed.org/news-and-events/articles/march-2020-i...
- tummybug 5y agoThe complete list of codes can be found in the github repo containing the schema for the qrcode data https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/ehn-dcc-schema/tree/release/1.3.0/valuesets https://github.com/ehn-dcc-development/ehn-dcc-schema/tree/r...
- CRConrad 5y agoYeah, Covid nineteen! Where was all this foofarah the first eighteen times, eh? Eh? /s