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SNOMED CT
SNOMED CT (pronounced "sno-med C-T") is a systematically organized computer processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting. SNOMED CT is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world.
Etymology
SNOMED CT stands for Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms. It was created by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and is now maintained by the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO).
Related Terms
- Clinical Terminology: A system of terms that describes a particular specialty or group of specialties.
- Healthcare Interoperability: The ability of different information systems, devices and applications to access, exchange, integrate and cooperatively use data in a coordinated manner.
- Electronic Health Record (EHR): A digital version of a patient's paper chart. EHRs are real-time, patient-centered records that make information available instantly and securely to authorized users.
- International Classification of Diseases (ICD): The international "standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes".
- LOINC: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes is a database and universal standard for identifying medical laboratory observations.
- HL7: Health Level Seven International, a set of international standards for transfer of clinical and administrative data between software applications used by various healthcare providers.
See Also
- Medical Classification
- Medical Coding
- Medical Informatics
- Health Information Management
- Health Information Exchange
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on SNOMED
- Wikipedia's article - SNOMED
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