SNOMED CT

This is small presentation that provides an introduction and brief overview of SNOMED CT

1. Systematized Nomenclature Of Medicine-Clinical Terms
By
Ahmed Magdy

2. 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.

3. The primary purpose of SNOMED CT is to encode
the meanings that are used in health information
and to support the effective clinical recording of
data with the aim of improving patient care.

4. SNOMED CT provides the core general terminology
for electronic health records. SNOMED CT
comprehensive coverage includes: clinical
findings, symptoms, diagnoses, procedures, body
structures, organisms and other etiologies,
substances, pharmaceuticals, devices and
specimens.

5. Is the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical
healthcare terminology in the world.
Is a resource with comprehensive, scientifically
validated clinical content.
Enables consistent, processable representation of
clinical content in electronic health records.
Is mapped to other international standards.
Is already used in more than fifty countries.

6. Recording clinical observations.
Querying health records for information.
Deriving medical knowledge from clinical
documents.
Automating repetitive jobs like posting orders
thereby improving efficiency and productivity.
Raising rules-based alerts and warnings to help
reduce errors.

7. Conceptsrepresenting clinical meanings that
are organized into hierarchies.
Descriptionswhich link appropriate human
readable terms to concepts.
Relationshipswhich link each concept to other
related concepts.
Reference setsused to group Concepts or
Descriptions into sets, including reference sets
and cross-maps to other classifications and
standards.

9. Clinical expressions using SNOMED CT concepts
can be of two types: pre-coordinated expressions,
which use a single SNOMED CT concept identifier;
and post-coordinated expressions, which contain
more than one SNOMED CT identifier.

10. Pre-coordinated Expression
Clinical thought: Viral pneumonia
single pre-coordinated term exists for this
Post-coordinated Expression
Clinical thought: Family history of hypertension
No single pre-coordinated term exists for this.

13. SNOMED CT is the terminology that supports the EMR.
On its own it does nothing
It is very clinician friendly
It is multilingual
It allows very powerful data analytics
It augments decision support capabilities of an EMR

14. Thank you