Full Description
This book is an essential guide to using SNOMED CT®. It emphasises SNOMED CT's® importance to healthcare and describes how it is used to improve patient outcomes and deliver more effective healthcare. The book explains the main design features fundamental to using SNOMED CT® as a clinical terminology, and the tools and processes used to develop and extend it. With these foundations in place, it then offers practical advice to implementing SNOMED CT® in a health information environment, highlighting the intrinsic relationship between terminology and information models, and exploring how different types of health data can be represented.
The Essential Guide to SNOMED CT® offers guidance on how to customise the terminology for specific usages, by developing value sets, user-friendly terms, and new content. Effective principles and solutions for deploying terminology services, for designing user interfaces, and for storing, exchanging and querying SNOMED CT® data are also explored. The book concludes by discussing the role that SNOMED CT plays in semantic interoperability, and summarising some key messages for anyone using or planning to use SNOMED CT®.
Contents
Part I - Introduction.- Chapter 1 - What is SNOMED CT?.- Chapter 2 - Where does SNOMED CT come from?.- Chapter 3 - Why is SNOMED CT important to healthcare?.- Chapter 4 - Who uses SNOMED CT?.- Chapter 5 - How is SNOMED CT used?.- Chapter 6 - Getting started with SNOMED CT.- Part II - SNOMED CT Design.- Chapter 7 - The desiderata.- Chapter 8 - Content in SNOMED CT.- Chapter 9 - SNOMED CT logical model.- Chapter 10 - Reference sets.- Chapter 11 - History and versioning.- Chapter 12 - Concept model.- Chapter 13 - Expressions.- Chapter 14 - Expression constraints.- Chapter 15 - Templates.- Part III - SNOMED CT Development.- Chapter 16 - SNOMED CT authoring.- Chapter 17 - Extensions and editions.- Chapter 18 - Translation.- Chapter 19 - Value sets.- Chapter 20 - Mapping.- Chapter 21 -Release and distribution.- Part IV - SNOMED CT Implementation.- Chapter 22 - Implementation overview.- Chapter 23 - Procuring clinical systems.- Chapter 24 - Terminology services.- Chapter 25 - SNOMED CT in the information model.- Chapter 26 - User interface design.- Chapter 27 - Storage and exchange.- Chapter 28 - Postcoordination.- Chapter 29 - Data analytics.- Part V - Conclusion.- Chapter 30 - SNOMED CT and semantic interoperability.- Chapter 31 - Key lessons for using SNOMED CT.
