PITUS-18-20 Project

Pathology Information, Terminology and Units Standardisation (PITUS-18-20) Project continues the standardisation of pathology requesting and reporting. The Project is fully funded by the Department of Health.

The PITUS-18-20 Steering Committee has co-ordinated the Project. All key stakeholders were represented on the Steering committee.

The Project activities have been split across five working groups:

1. Evaluation and Promotion will educate and promote SPIA uptake and audit SPIA conformance in pathology reports
2. Terminology Development will maintain and expand pathology terminology reference sets the with Australian Digital Health Agency and HL7 Australia and provide advice to the National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS) on pathology reference sets
3. Systems Design and Compliance will specify systems for maintenance and publication of SPIA artefacts by NCTS, develop FHIR extensions to record terminology related knowledge from SPIA, and devise a system for linkage of terminology to knowledge in Manual and Labtests On-line
4. SPRC Infostructure and Conformance will develop a model and terminology for four protocols and undertake Informatics External Quality Assurance (IEQA) trial for one protocol
5. Report Standardisation will develop policy for results flagging and for the grouping of tests in pathology reports.