SNOMED CT backs NZ's Canterbury District Health Board achieve integrated system

 KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 (Bernama) -- SNOMED International has released a series of videos demonstrating the value that a healthcare system derives from implementing and using SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology.

The first chapter of the SNOMED CT Value Series, which focuses on New Zealand’s Canterbury District Health Board, highlights the advances the organisation has made in realising its vision of a connected, integrated system that supports the country’s Healthy Ageing strategy and enables it to better serve its population.

Another benefit of using SNOMED CT is its interoperability across the healthcare district’s best-of-breed applications.

Other Canterbury clinicians say they are most excited by SNOMED CT’s ability to help two different clinical tools – an electronic medical record system and a pathways tool – talk to each other via a SNOMED CT code linked to diagnoses, and by the ability to search for pathways and find hierarchies.

Recognising the dedication of New Zealand’s implementation efforts, SNOMED International Chief Executive Officer, Don Sweete said in a statement: “Canterbury is a great example of the breadth of maturity that SNOMED CT offers from data coding, data analysis, and ultimately the ability to apply artificial intelligence to already structured SNOMED CT data.”

New Zealand’s focus over the next few years is on primary and community care, where users are migrating their systems from Read Codes to SNOMED CT as they introduce new models of care and supporting software.

SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organisation that owns and develops SNOMED CT, the world's most comprehensive healthcare terminology product.

-- BERNAMA