SNOMED CT implementation: Implications of choosing clinical findings or observable entities

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 169, Issue , 2011, Pages 809-813

  Rasmussen, Anne Randorff ^a   Rosenbeck, Kirstine ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Clinical finding; Clinical terminology; Electronic Health Record; Implementation; Observable entity; SNOMED CT

Indexed keywords

INTEROPERABILITY; RECORDS MANAGEMENT;

CLINICAL FINDING; CLINICAL TERMINOLOGY; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; IMPLEMENTATION; OBSERVABLE ENTITY; SNOMED-CT;

TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 83055191209     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-806-9-809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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