Defining clinical conditions from electronic health record (EHR) data underpins population health activities, clinical decision support, and analytics. In an EHR, defining a condition commonly employs a diagnosis value set or "grouper." For constructing value sets, Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) offers high clinical fidelity, a hierarchical ontology, and wide implementation in EHRs as the standard interoperability vocabulary for problems.
Author(s): Willett, Duwayne L, Kannan, Vaishnavi, Chu, Ling, Buchanan, Joel R, Velasco, Ferdinand T, Clark, John D, Fish, Jason S, Ortuzar, Adolfo R, Youngblood, Josh E, Bhat, Deepa G, Basit, Mujeeb A
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1668090