Semantic Alignment between ICD-11 and SNOMED CT.
Due to fundamental differences in design and editorial policies, semantic interoperability between two de facto standard terminologies in the healthcare domain--the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and SNOMED CT (SCT), requires combining two different approaches: (i) axiom-based, which states logically what is universally true, using an ontology language such as OWL; (ii) rule-based, expressed as queries on the axiom-based knowledge. We present the ICD-SCT harmonization process including: a) a new architecture for ICD-11, b) a protocol for the semantic alignment of ICD and SCT, and c) preliminary results of the alignment applied to more than half the domain currently covered by the draft ICD-11.
INSERM U1142, LIMICS, Paris, France.
Jean-Marie
JM
Rodrigues
Intl Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, Copenhagen Denmark.
David
D
Robinson
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Udine, Italy.
Vincenzo
V
Della Mea
Department of Internal Medicine University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha USA.
James
J
Campbell
University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Alan
A
Rector
IMI, Medical University of Graz, Austria.
Stefan
S
Schulz
Health and Social Care Information Centre. United Kingdom.
Hazel
H
Brear
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Bedirhan
B
Üstün
Intl Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, Copenhagen Denmark.
Kent
K
Spackman
Division of General Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Christopher G
CG
Chute
Intl Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, Copenhagen Denmark.
Jane
J
Millar
Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
Harold
H
Solbrig
National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kristina
K
Brand Persson
D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D038801:International Classification of Diseases / Q000592:standards; D012660:Semantics; D039061:Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine