Methods Inf Med 2012; 51: 529–538 doi: 10.3414/ME11-02-0023 received: August 22, 2011 accepted: May 21, 2012 prepublished: October 1, 2012 Correspondence to: Anne Randorff Højen Department of Health Science and Technology Medical Informatics Aalborg University Fr. Bajers Vej 7 C2 9220 Aalborg ∅ Denmark E-mail: [email protected] specialty Electronic Health Record systems (EHR systems) or just beyo...

With the ongoing development in the field of Medical Informatics, the availability of cross-references and the consistency of coverage between terminologies become critical requirements for clinical decision support. In this paper, we examine the possibility of developing a framework that highlights and exposes hierarchical incompatibilities between different medical terminologies in order to f...

Today electronic clinical guideline systems exist, but they are not well integrated with electronic health records. This paper thus proposes that the patient's "position" in the pathway during the patient journey should be made visible to all involved healthcare parties and the patient. This requires that the generic knowledge, which is represented in the guidelines, is combined with the patien...

In Danish home care, multiple professions deliver services to citizens. FSIII is a national home care documentation standard, where one of the goals is to share documentation to improve coordination between these professional groups and avoid double documentation. The aim of this study was to develop a SNOMED-CT based navigation hierarchy to ensure that professions could preserve their document...

Newborn screening (NBS) is a complex process that has high-stakes health implications and requires rapid and effective communication between many people and organizations. Currently, each NBS laboratory has its own method of reporting results to state programs, hospitals and individual providers, with wide variation in content and format. Pediatric care providers receive reports by mail, email,...

SNOMEDCT stands for the SystematizedNomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms, and consists of comprehensive scientifically validated content. SNOMED CT is available in more than 50 countries and has been adopted as the standard clinical terminology for the NHS in England’. This Editorial explores whether this should be cause for widespread rejoicing among the health informatics community or whet...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms) to represent the concepts of the ICNP version 1--the seven-axis model. METHODS The first author mapped 1658 concepts of the ICNP version 1 to SNOMED CT using CLUE browser 5.0. The second author from SNOMED Terminology Solutions--with a team of SNOMED CT experts--...

OBJECTIVE To develop and evaluate machine learning techniques that identify limb fractures and other abnormalities (e.g. dislocations) from radiology reports. MATERIALS AND METHODS 99 free-text reports of limb radiology examinations were acquired from an Australian public hospital. Two clinicians were employed to identify fractures and abnormalities from the reports; a third senior clinician ...

The perioperative nursing data set (PNDS) is a structured vocabulary developed by AORN to help document perioperative nursing practices. The PNDS has been mapped to the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) reference terminology model to support the electronic exchange of nursing data. This study validates the concept mapping between the PNDS and SNOMED CT, supporting...

A descriptive study of health information technology (HIT) vendors was conducted to identify which EMR/EHR vendors currently work or anticipate working with SNOMED CT, determine the prevalence of SNOMED CT integration in electronic medical record (EMR) and electronic health record (EHR) products, identify the available and potential future applications for SNOMED CT in EMR/EHR systems, and lear...