- SNOMED International is a multidisciplinary
organization consisting of members and leadership from the
College of
American Pathologists (CAP); clinical content experts; medical informatics
experts; United Kingdom's National Health Service representatives;
liaisons from clinical specialties and government agencies; professional
medical translators, editors and validators; physicians and nurses; a
Scientific Director; and external stakeholders. These individuals
bring expertise in national and international standards, medical
informatics, software development and implementation, database licensing,
biotechnology, clinical and academic medicine, managed care, laboratory
medicine, pharmacy, nursing, education and database services.
- SNOMED International Mission is to advance excellence in patient
care through the delivery of a dynamic and sustainable, scientifically
validated terminology and infrastructure that enables clinicians,
researchers and patients to share health care knowledge worldwide, across
clinical specialties and sites of care. SNOMED International is committed
to widespread adoption and implementation of SNOMED CT®.
- SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) is a dynamic,
scientifically validated clinical health care terminology and
infrastructure that makes health care knowledge more usable and
accessible.
- The purpose of the SNOMED CT Core terminology is
to provide a common language that enables a consistent way of capturing,
sharing and aggregating health data across specialties and sites of care.
- Applications for SNOMED CT includes: Healthcare
information systems, electronic health records, clinical decision
support systems, research, clinical trials, computerized physician order
entry, disease surveillance, image indexing and consumer health
information services.
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