The Terminology Services Guide describes the terminology services required to support effective access to the content and features of SNOMED CT. This guide primarily focuses on the terminology service requirements of applications that enable the use of SNOMED CT for clinical purposes.
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Contents
1 Introduction
2 Terminology Services Overview
3 Terminology Service Use Cases
- 3.1 Explore and Review SNOMED CT
- 3.2 Support EHR Data Entry
- 3.3 Display EHR Data
- 3.4 EHR Reporting and Analytics
- 3.5 Reference Set Editing
- 3.6 Apply Mapping Reference Sets
- 3.7 Terminology Change Management
- 3.8 Support Terminology Authoring and Review
4 Terminology Service Types
- 4.1 Select Edition and Version
- 4.2 Get a Concept, Description or Relationship
- 4.3 Get Terms for a Concept
- 4.4 Get Definition of a Concept
- 4.5 Get and Test Concept Subtypes and Supertypes
- 4.6 Get and Test Reference Set Membership
- 4.7 Validate and Apply Expression Constraints
- 4.8 Find Concepts
- 4.9 Identify Changes to the Terminology
- 4.10 Get Data from a Reference Set
- 4.11 Get History Data
- 4.12 Get Mapping Data
- 4.13 Get Concept Model Rules
- 4.14 Validate Concept Definitions and Expressions
- 4.15 Test Expression Subsumption
5 Service Implementation Considerations
- 5.1 Terminology Data Storage and Access
- 5.2 Enabling Access to Editions and Versions
- 5.3 Release Types and Versioned Views
- 5.4 Importing Release File Data
Appendix A: Summary of Types and Use Cases
Appendix B: Editions, Versions and Extensions
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