Randorff Højen Anne, Sundvall Erik, Rosenbeck Gøeg Kirstine
Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013;192:1160.
Inconsistent use of concepts is an obstacle when implementing SNOMED CT to improve comparability of information. Terminology implementation should be approached by common strategies for navigating and selecting proper concepts. This study aims to explore ways of illustrating common pathways and ancestors of particular sets of concepts, to support consistent use of SNOMED CT in EHR-system implementation processes. The prototype presented is an interactive web-based re-implementation of the terminology visualization tool TermViz. The open source prototype contains terminological features that are of relevance when exploring and comparing sets of concepts in SNOMED CT. Future work should focus on evaluating the developed prototype in order to assess its applicability in EHR-system-implementation contexts.
在实施SNOMED CT以提高信息可比性时，概念使用不一致是一个障碍。术语实施应通过通用策略来进行，以导航和选择合适的概念。本研究旨在探索说明特定概念集的通用路径和祖先的方法，以支持在电子健康记录（EHR）系统实施过程中一致使用SNOMED CT。所展示的原型是术语可视化工具TermViz基于网络的交互式重新实现。该开源原型包含在探索和比较SNOMED CT中的概念集时具有相关性的术语特征。未来的工作应集中于评估所开发的原型，以评估其在EHR系统实施环境中的适用性。
