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Bahmni Lite v1.0 ships with CIEL Dictionary out-of-the-box. It is downloaded from OCL and stored in the |
The CIEL concept dictionary is a dictionary of over 53 thousand 53000 concepts relevant to health information systems in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Those concepts include diagnoses, procedures, medications, labs and observables (answers to questions) all mapped to international standard coding systems such as ICD-10-WHO, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNORM, and many others. It is used by electronic health records and other health information systems in more than 40 countries. To make implementations easier to build and deploy, OpenMRS supports the ability to copy and customize a CIEL concept instead of recreating it manually.Visit CIEL on OCL Online to see the latest release: https://app.openconceptlab.org/#/orgs/CIEL/
The CIEL concepts are constantly being updated, including addition of new maps to ICD-11-WHO and language translations for a subset of concepts. . You can download the latest version of CIEL dictionary from OCL. Please also read this page: Comparing various Concept Dictionary options in Bahmni
NOTE regarding datatype updates in CIEL: When updating the CIEL dictionary version to implement essential changes or incorporate new updates, it 's is important to consider that these modifications will only take effect in the production environment if there are no pre-existing observations recorded for the concepts that underwent updates in the latest release version.
OpenMRS, by default, restricts the modification of data types for concepts with existing observations. This limitation restriction ensures data integrity and prevents unintended alterations that could affect the accuracy of recorded information. Therefore, it is advisable to review and manage any pre-existing observations related to the updated concepts to fully realize the benefits of the CIEL dictionary's latest version in the production environment.
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