Using SNOMED software in a large anatomic pathology laboratory.
The CAP SNOMED Microcomputer Software integrates the production of pathology reports with auto-assisted encoding of diagnostic data into a SNOMED data base. User-selected patient identifying information is stored with diagnostic and coded data and can be retrieved immediately. However, using this software in a large laboratory can present problems, the author says. Here's how his laboratory circumvented the obstacles.
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