Grihasoft is one of the pioneers in providing the SNOMED classification services to hospitals. Grihasoft understands the need and requirement of the hospitals for the coding and provide relevant services to work on specific tasks for clients.  SNOMED CT helps the hospitals in the following ways  Simplify data governance by centralizing and managing reference data. Enable interoperability and normalize clinical, claims, and administrative data. Optimize your analytics and ensure regulatory compliance, providing analytical solutions that can be customized to your organization’s needs. 

While SNOMED CT is a comprehensive and multilingual clinical terminology that encompasses a vast array of medical concepts, there are some challenges associated with its use.  For one of leading hospital chains in India, Grihasoft was able to map services to SNOMED to create a centralized database which could provide all kinds of insights at a central level even though individual hospitals naming preferences varied. Grihasoft was able to provide a database wherein centralized repository which in turn linked to individual services of hospitals, which helped in Analytics, EHR, Data governance, compliance, etc.,  Here are some of the challenges:  Concept definition issues: SNOMED CT concepts can have multiple definitions, which can lead to confusion and inconsistency in their use. It can be challenging to determine which definition is appropriate for a given context.  SNOMED CT is updated regularly, which can make it challenging to maintain consistency across different versions of the terminology. It can be difficult to ensure that all systems are using the same version of SNOMED CT.  To identify the classification / terminology to existing services and covering the versioning changes Grihasoft has a specialized team to provide these services which in turn affects the outcome of the hospitals needs  By standardizing the way health IT systems terminologies, SNOMED CT enables consistent representations and reproductions of clinical content in EHRs. Other applications can use it for clinical decision support systems, laboratory, emergency room and patient reporting. To ensure that these systems can leverage all that, it’s important to keep up to date with the latest releases, including mapping across other healthcare terminologies.