title: SNOMED-CT: The advanced terminology and coding system for eHealth.
abstract: A clinical terminology is essential for Electronic Health records. It represents clinical information input into clinical IT systems by clinicians in a machine-readable manner. Use of a Clinical Terminology, implemented within a clinical information system, will enable the delivery of many patient health benefits including electronic clinical decision support, disease screening and enhanced patient safety. For example, it will help reduce medication-prescribing errors, which are currently known to kill or injure many citizens. It will also reduce clinical administration effort and the overall costs of healthcare.
authors.affiliation: SNOMED International, College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Illinois, USA. kdonnel@cap.org
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Donnelly
mesh_terms: D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized / Q000145:classification*; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine; D018511:Systems Integration