How will the DLP integrate with existing and future terminologies?
Computerized medical records, telemedicine applications and decision support systems contain vocabulary generic to all of medicine, not specifically dermatology. Therefore a dermatology lexicon must share common language (and codes) so that the dermatology terms relate to the vocabulary of medicine. The most comprehensive, universal clinical vocabulary is SNOMED. Perhaps the most significant advance in the creation of a universal, international terminology is the development of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), launched in May of 2000 as a result of a joint initiative by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the British National Health Service Information Authority (NHSIA). SNOMED CT is an evolving international, multilingual terminology that is designed to support clinical care and communication. It has been derived from amalgamating the vocabularies of SNOMED and Clinical Terms (Read Codes) classification systems which had been developed independently in the USA and in the
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