SNOMED CT (SNOMEDCT)
Use Cases
Clinical Documentation & EHR Terminology
HealthcareStandardize clinical terminology and documentation in Electronic Health Records using SNOMED CT concepts to ensure consistent, precise medical terminology across healthcare systems and improve clinical communication.
Medical Coding & Healthcare Billing
HealthcareImplement SNOMED CT codes for accurate medical billing, insurance claims processing, and healthcare reimbursement to ensure precise diagnosis and procedure coding compliance.
Clinical Decision Support Systems
HealthcareIntegrate SNOMED CT terminology into clinical decision support tools to provide evidence-based treatment recommendations, drug interaction alerts, and diagnostic assistance to healthcare providers.
Healthcare Analytics & Medical Research
HealthcareUtilize SNOMED CT's standardized clinical concepts for healthcare data analytics, epidemiological studies, and medical research to enable large-scale analysis of patient outcomes and population health trends.
Ontology Info
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Acronyme | SNOMEDCT |
| Description | The US Edition of SNOMED CT combines the International Release of SNOMED CT and the US Extension of SNOMED CT<br><br>SNOMED CT provides the core general terminology for the electronic health record (EHR). The concepts have unique meanings and formal logic-based definitions organized into hierarchies. Each International Release includes the core of the terminology (concepts, descriptions, and relationships), together with works to support the implementation and use of SNOMED CT, including subsets, cross maps to existing classifications and coding schemes, and an extensive set of guidelines.<br><br>The US Extension to SNOMED CT included the concepts, descriptions, and relationships accepted by NLM as a formal extension to the SNOMED CT International Release. NLM no longer releases the standalone US Extension.<br><br>The US Edition of SNOMED CT includes more than 300,000 unique concepts. There are over 1,000,000 descriptions in SNOMED CT, including synonyms that can be used to refer to a concept. In addition, there are approximately 903,000 links or semantic relationships between the SNOMED CT concepts. |
| Format | UMLS |
| Categories | Health |
| Groups | Unified Medical Language System, Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid |
Metrics
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Classes | 375,783 |
| Individuals | 0 |
| Properties | 246 |
| Max Depth | 30 |
| Max Child Count | 3,027 |
| Average Child Count | 4 |
| Classes With One Child | 48,683 |
| Classes With More Than 25 Children | 3,114 |
| Classes With No Definition | 367,146 |
Projects using SNOMEDCT
- Semantic Indexing of French Biomedical Data Resources
- ISA software suite
- Rehabilita, Disruptive Technologies for the Rehabilitation of the Future
- PMF_Foodmatrix
- Kino
- Socrates MD
- Epidemic Marketplace
- PractiKPharma
- Epidemiology Term Annotation
- Educatioal Medical Materials Annotator
- Integrative Genomics
- SemGen
- LogMap
- Radiology Gamuts Ontology
- gilsnowmed
- Nomenclature for Anatomic Pathology
- ICDmap
- Mapping of Norwegian national quality registries- Variabelbibliotek for medisinske kvalitetsregistre
- ACS-registry
- International Fanconi Anemia Registry
- Lexigram
- ARRS GoldMiner
- TerminologyLinkingService