PHAST

Leading national interoperability provider, PHAST offers services aimed at improving healthcare data exchange.
 
PHAST provides metathesauri which bring together coded medical vocabularies to enable interoperability within healthcare information systems.
 
PHAST contributes to international efforts related to semantic interoperability and health data exchange standards. It sponsors the “Pathology and Laboratory Medicine” (PaLM) domain of IHE International, and is the correspondent of IHE to SNOMED for the IHE SNOMED CT free set. It contributes to various Work Groups of HL7 International, leads the introduction of new resources for order catalogs in the FHIR standard and is one of the primary editors of the International Patient Summary (IPS) standard. Phast also played a key role in the Trillium II Project funded by the European Commission to provide “International Patient Summary” standards in support to better patient care across borders.
 
Phast is chairing SNOMED International “French Translation Project Group”, which aims at a single French translation produced cooperatively by NRCs of French speaking member countries.