International terminology toolset in development
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has launched a campaign to build an essential health terminology toolset to improve access to the tools needed to develop, maintain, and use SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. The effort is part of an Open Health Tools Charter Project jointly sponsored by IHTSDO, the […]
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Call for semantic health interoperability
A leading UK academic has called for a new push on the development of semantic electronic health records based on ‘clinical archetypes’ as the only viable route to deliver fully interoperable electronic health care records, writes Jon Hoeksma in Slovenia. Dr Dipak Kalra of University College London said clinical archetypes, or “clinical shapes” need to […]
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FDBE releases SNOMED CT-based condition check
Clinical decision support specialist, First DataBank Europe (FDBE) has released live condition checking content within its drug knowledge base, the Multilex Drug Data File (Multilex DDF). The new content supports the SNOMED CT based condition checking functionality, released in July 2006, and means that patient data recorded using SNOMED CT codes can be used within […]
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New CEO of SNOMED CT appointed
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), owners of the SNOMED CT terminology, has announced that Jennifer Zelmer will take over as chief executive officer (CEO) as of February 2008. Daniel Forslund, board member from Sweden and chair of the selection committee of the management board, said that the committee unanimously selected Zelmer based […]
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Evolution, not revolution
Jens Naumann, head of the German industrial association of health IT companies, talks to Philipp Gratzel about the forthcoming roll out of electronic health cards.
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SNOMED sold to new standards organisation
The intellectual property rights of SNOMED Clinical Terms have been sold for $7.8m (£3.6m) to a newly-formed board called the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, based in Denmark. The IHSTDO is made up of nine nations – Australia, Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, The Netherlands, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom with Connecting […]
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College bows out of SNOMED development
The College of American Pathologists plans to relinquish control of its subsidiary, SNOMED International. SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms), is a coding system initially developed for pathologists but which has become more widely used for a variety of clinical coding tasks in more than 30 countries. England’s NHS has mandated the standard […]
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RCGP urges ‘universal and rapid’ SNOMED deployment
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has written to NHS IT director general Richard Granger calling for the "universal and rapid" deployment of the clinical coding system SNOMED. The letter from the RCGP’s Health informatics Standing Group is understood to have been prompted by concerns about the pace of change towards SNOMED CT by […]
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International standards organisation for SNOMED proposed
SNOMED International, an arm of The College of American Pathologists (CAP) and NHS Connecting for Health, the agency in charge of NHS IT modernisation, have announced plans to establish an international Standards Development Organistion to promote SNOMED CT. The aim is to create an international standards organisation that will enable countries and national authorities to take a […]
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US SNOMED Licence Raises Questions Over NHS Deal
A $32.4m contract signed by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the US National Library of Medicine will make English and Spanish versions of SNOMED clinical terms – developed in collaboration with the NHS – available free-of-charge in the US from 2004. It is unclear, however, whether the NHS, as major investors in and […]
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