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

1. SNOMED-CT Sudeep Bansal, MD

2. What is SNOMED CT? Standard Vocabulary of medicine- Clinical Terms Basically enables the computer to understand medical lingo and act on it (e.g. CDSS) Consists over a million concept codes

4. Components Core Components Concept Codes Descriptions or Terms Relationships Other Components Cross Map Reference sets Extensions

5. Concept & Descriptions It is unit of thought or meaning which is given a unique string which is computer readable E.g. Myocardial Infarction 22298006 This concept may have many descriptions Cardiac Infarction Heart Attack Infarction of the heart

6. Relationships Concepts are linked to each other by “Relationships” “Is a” - Myocardial Infarction “Is a” heart disease which “Is a” a non-communicable disease Causative relationship – Bacterial Pneumonia

7. Real World Use Recording, Indexing, Retrieval and Exchange of clinical data Clinical Decision Support Patient Record = Asthma CDSS criteria = Chronic Cardiorespiratory disorder Physician reminder = Influenza vaccination

8. References National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_main.html International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization http://www.ihtsdo.org/ http://www.ihtsdo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Docs_01/SNOMED_Clinical_Terms_Fundamentals.pdf http://www.ihtsdo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Docs_01/Publications/doc_UserGuide_Current-en-US_INT_20100131.pdf