“As promised in my earlier blog, the National Library of Medicine has created a “best practices” subset of SNOMED-CT which is highly usable by clinicians for documenting the symptoms and conditions used on a typical Problem List.
I’ve discussed previously the hazards of using ICD-9 as problem list vocabulary. It’s an administrative billing vocabulary, not a clinical observation vocabulary.”
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John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO, 23 July 2009
