What types of software applications use SNOMED CT®?
There are many applications for SNOMED CT® including Electronic Health Records and Computerized Patient Order Entry systems (CPOE), as well as e-prescribing, laboratory order entry, problem lists, disease templates, laboratory results reporting, cancer reporting, therapeutic decision support, genetic databases, radiology image banks, surgical procedures, literature encoding, clinical research and global benchmarking, just to name some of them. Note: SNOMED CT® itself is not software. Top • How comprehensive is the core terminology? SNOMED CT® contains the vast majority of concepts required to record the process of care across the range of clinical professions in practice. The July 2007 release contains over 315,000 active concepts portrayed by more than 805,000 active descriptions and associated to each other by in excess of 945,000 defining relationships. These concepts with their inherent unique meanings and formal logic-based definitions are arranged into 19 hierarchies covering the
