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What is Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED)

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Handbook of Research on Text and Web Mining Technologies
The largest structured vocabulary used in medicine. All substantives, adjectives, eponyms, etc., concerning the medical language are stored in this vocabulary. SNOMED project was started in 1965 by the Committee on Nomenclature and Classification of Disease of the College of American Pathologysts. After various modifications, the current version of this vocabulary, called SNOMED CT (Clinical Terms), was produced.
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An HL7-Aware Decision Support System for E-Health
Pasquale De Meo (Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-990-8.ch037
Abstract
In this chapter we present an information system conceived for supporting managers of Public Health Care Agencies to decide the new health care services to propose. Our system is HL7-aware; in fact, it uses the HL7 (Health Level Seven) standard (Health Level Seven [HL7], 2007) to effectively handle the interoperability among different Public Health Care Agencies. HL7 provides several functionalities for the exchange, the management and the integration of data concerning both patients and health care services. Our system appears particularly suited for supporting a rigorous and scientific decision making activity, taking a large variety of factors and a great amount of heterogeneous information into account.
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