Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) International
A Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) International is a not-for-profit organization that is standard-developing organization focused on medical research data linked with healthcare.
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- See: Medical Terms, Veterinary Medicine, Anatomy, Diseases, Microorganisms, Standard-Developing Organization (SDO), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Clinical Trial Data, National Cancer Institute's Enterprise Vocabulary Services (NCI-EVS) Program, CDISC Shared Health And Research Electronic (SHARE) Library, Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) RWD Connect Initiative, Hierarchical Classification.
References
2022a
- (SNOMED, 2022) ⇒ https://www.snomed.org/snomed-international/who-we-are Retrieved:2022-02-27.
- QUOTE: SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns and maintains SNOMED CT.
We play an essential role in improving the health of humankind, by determining standards for a codified language that represents groups of clinical terms. This enables healthcare information to be exchanged globally for the benefit of patients and other stakeholders. We are committed to the rigorous evolution of our products and services, to deliver continuous innovation for the global healthcare community.
What we do
The safe, accurate and effective exchange of health information is an essential part of the foundation to improve healthcare around the world. We strive to determine the best global standards for health terminology, and to engage with the global healthcare community to improve SNOMED CT and patient safety.
We work to ensure that SNOMED CT can be routinely integrated into healthcare information systems. With SNOMED CT, users can record patient data more accurately and comprehensively – and use tools and analytics to provide better patient care and health management.
- QUOTE: SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns and maintains SNOMED CT.
2022b
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematized_Nomenclature_of_Medicine Retrieved:2022-2-27.
- The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) is a systematic, computer-processable collection of medical terms, in human and veterinary medicine, to provide codes, terms, synonyms and definitions which cover anatomy, diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, substances, etc. It allows a consistent way to index, store, retrieve, and aggregate medical data across specialties and sites of care. Although now international, SNOMED was started in the U.S. by the College of American Pathologists (CAP)[1] in 1973 and revised into the 1990s. In 2002 CAP's SNOMED Reference Terminology (SNOMED RT) was merged with, and expanded by, the National Health Service's Clinical Terms Version 3 (previously known as the Read codes) to produce SNOMED CT.[2] [3]
Versions of SNOMED released prior to 2001 were based on a multiaxial, hierarchical classification system. [4] As in any such system, a disease may be located in a body organ (anatomy), which results in a code in a topography axis and may lead to morphological alterations represented by a morphology code.
In 2002 the first release of SNOMED CT adopted a completely different structure. A sub-type hierarchy, supported by defining relationships based on description logic, replaced the axes described in this article. Versions of SNOMED prior to SNOMED CT are planned to be formally deprecated from 2017.[5] Therefore, readers interested in current information about SNOMED are directed to the article on SNOMED CT.
- The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) is a systematic, computer-processable collection of medical terms, in human and veterinary medicine, to provide codes, terms, synonyms and definitions which cover anatomy, diseases, findings, procedures, microorganisms, substances, etc. It allows a consistent way to index, store, retrieve, and aggregate medical data across specialties and sites of care. Although now international, SNOMED was started in the U.S. by the College of American Pathologists (CAP)[1] in 1973 and revised into the 1990s. In 2002 CAP's SNOMED Reference Terminology (SNOMED RT) was merged with, and expanded by, the National Health Service's Clinical Terms Version 3 (previously known as the Read codes) to produce SNOMED CT.[2] [3]
- ↑ Roger A. Côté (1986). "Architecture of SNOMED". Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer Application in Medical Care: 74–80. PMC 2245000
- ↑ "SNOMED Clinical Terms To Be Added To UMLS Metathesaurus". United States National Library of Medicine. 24 May 2006. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ↑ "FAQs: SNOMED CT in the UMLS". United States National Library of Medicine. 22 May 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2015.
- ↑ Yves A. Lussier, Roger A. Côté (1998). "The SNOMED model: A knowledge source for the controlled terminology of the computerized patient record". Methods of Information in Medicine. 37 (2): 161-164!pmid=9656658. doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634522
- ↑ Deprecation of Antecedent Versions of SNOMED by IHTSDO General Assembly
2022c
- (HIMSS, 2022) ⇒ https://www.himss.org/resources/interoperability-healthcare#Part2 Retrieved:2022-2-26.
- QUOTE: There are over 40 different SDOs in the health IT arena. Some entities create standards, such as Health Level Seven (HL7), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) International, and the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC). Others, like Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE), do not develop new standards, but rather bundle complementary base standards into IHE profiles that are used to define a specific function or use case, and then are balloted. This creates a scenario that helps drive adoption of the base standards by providing implementation guidance that describes how multiple standards can be used together to support interoperable health information exchange.