KUALA LUMPUR, March 11 -- As 2019 drew to a close, the Republic of Armenia’s Ministry of Health signed on as a Member of the SNOMED International community.
According to a statement, the Republic holds authority for the implementation of Armenia’s e-Health system, a single information platform supporting stakeholders of the country's medical institutions, citizens and the state healthcare providers.
The goal of the system is the usage of modern information and communication technologies, providing high-quality, safe, accessible and cost-effective medical services to the public; Tenets of which SNOMED CT supports in full.
With a road map introduced by the Minister of Health at 2017-end, SNOMED CT is well positioned to support the implementation of Armenia’s unified electronic information system approach through the provision of clinical terminology.
The Government of Armenia has dynamically installed an e-health system in all hospitals throughout the country.
In this ongoing process to achieve great results, the health ministry adopted a policy of integration of the data to be accurate, reliable and complete.
For this reason, Armenia joined SNOMED International as a member country in 2019 to promote health information coding, health research and health records.
The Government of Armenia strongly believes that integration of SNOMED CT will not only support more accurate clinical decisions, but will also enhance productivity and patient safety. This is one step forward to unifying different local health systems.
-- BERNAMA
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