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SNOMED CT – Getting Started

The following represents articles and other freely available information about SNOMED CT:

1. Current Ownership:  The rights to SNOMED CT are owned by the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO).  See the following link for more information: SNOMED CT/IHTSDO.

2. Started Guide: The following article published by IHTSDO in 2014 is very useful and serves as an excellent starting point: SNOMED CT Starter Guide 2014

3. History: SNOMED CT was developed through a cooperative relationship between the College of American Pathologists, and United Kingdom’s National Health Service, Kaiser Permanente and others.  It was the result of a merger between the SNOMED RT and British Clinical Terms (formerly know as the Read codes, after James Read, MD, its founder).  The process of managing the merger from 1999- 2001 was the responsibility of Michael Stearns, MD, who served as the international director of SNOMED.   The following articles are available for free online:

  • SNOMED RT: a Reference Terminology for Health Care: AMIA Annual Fall Symposium Proceedings, 1997
  • Phase II Evaluation of Clinical Coding Schemes: Completeness, Taxomomy, Mapping, Definitions and Clarity: JAMIA, 1997
  • SNOMED Clinical Terms: Overview of the Development Process and Status Report: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive, 2001
  • Mapping Between SNOMED RT and Clinical Terms Version 3: a Key Component of the SNOMED CT Development Process: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings Archive, 2001
  • Selective Retrieval of Pre- and Post-Coordinated SNOMED Concepts: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2002
  • The SNOMED Clinical Terms Development Process: Refinement and Analysis of Content: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2002
  • The Use of SNOMED© CT Simplifies Querying of a Clinical Data Warehouse: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2003
  • Rates of Change in a Large Clinical Terminology: Three Years Experience with SNOMED Clinical Terms: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2005
  • Structural Methodologies for Auditing SNOMED: J Biomed Inform, 2006
  • Would SNOMED CT Benefit from Realism-Based Ontology Evaluation?: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2007
  • Analysis of Error Concentrations in SNOMED: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2007
  • Auditing Complex Concepts in Overlapping Subsets of SNOMED: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2008
  • Complexity Measures to Track the Evolution of a SNOMED Hierarchy: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2008
  • Auditing SNOMED Relationships Using a Converse Abstraction Network: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2009
  • Auditing the Semantic Completeness of SNOMED CT Using Formal Concept Analysis: JAMIA, 2009
  • Concerning SNOMED CT Content for Public Health Case Reports: JAMIA, 2010
  • Auditing Complex Concepts of SNOMED using  a Refined Hierarchical Abstraction Network: J Biomed Inform, 2011
  • Scalable Representations of Diseases in Biomedical Ontologies: J Biomed Semantics, 2012
  • Competing Interpretations of Disorder Codes in SNOMED CT and ICD: AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2012
  • Sharing Ontology between ICD 11 and SNOMED CT will enable Seamless Re-use and Semantic Interoperability: MEDINFO, 2013
  • SNOMED CT Technical Implementation Guides (IHTSDO 2014)

The information contained in this article represents the opinions of its author: Michael Stearns, MD

©Michael Stearns, all rights reserved

 

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  • SNOMED CT – Getting Started
  • The Importance of Structured Data and Context in Healthcare
  • Training Programs
  • Health Information Technology Fundamentals
  • About the Author: Michael Stearns, MD, CPC