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
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