SNOMED in action

Including SNOMED CT in our GP Practice Management Software for recording and searching.

Under leadership of TicSalut Foundation (Department of Health, Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain) has been developed the Clinical Dictionary Project to standardize vocabulary within the health system in the public network of Catalonia whose base is SNOMED CT. The subset of allergies has been implemented in our institution.

Synoptic operative report templates enable clinicians to capture and display succinct clinical information in a standardized and logical manner. Synoptic operative report templates also provide the optimum goal of enriching personalized health information of a given patient at the point of care so as to support the exchange of clinical information across the continuum of multiple healthcare providers.

EHR templates which use the fewest, most precise, SNOMED CT terms to produce the optimal medical record for patients in need of, or recipients of, hospital based emergency surgical care.

We are breaking down the barriers between home, primary and hospital based care to provide consistent, high quality and better value care for patients.

Cloud based electronic patient record system now entering tenth year of operation having been an early adopter of SNOMED CT.

Evolent Health partners with health systems across the United States to improve quality of care. Polypharmacy is a focus area due to its prevalence in the elderly and chronically ill patients, and its association with increased cost, adverse drug effects, medication non-adherence and other suboptimal outcomes. Definitions of polypharmacy range from measuring total number of medications with various cut-offs to the use of high-risk or unnecessary medications.

At first, SNOMED-CT terminology will be used for the capture of surgical procedures in our operating room management software. In a near future, we plan to generalize the use SNOMED-CT to capture medical information (in structured fields or using NLP technology on unstructured text) in our EHR.

A pilot project involving eight distinct specialties has demonstrated that there are benefits for specialists to work with clinical terminologists to ensure that the terminology reflects best current practice and to ensure clinical ownership of the terms within defined speciality subsets.

Connecting authors and editors of evidence-based medicine clinical textbooks, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines with high quality clinical evidence to support writing.

Teaching undergraduate medical students.

SNOMED CT is used to code drugs and pathology findings in the Catalan region in Hospital Clínic of Barcelona.