Optimized design of a search tool for effective use with SNOMED CT is addressed in the Search and Data Entry Guide. This is currently available under Public Draft Documentation in the SNOMED CT Document Library at http://snomed.org/doc.
Clinical data entry interfaces comprising numerous data items, including selection from short pick lists, and selectable singe items (check boxes).
Data entry interfaces have discrete items or lists of items from SNOMED CT 'bound' to a field. An example would be the binding of a single SNOMED CT Concept to a checkbox, so that when checked the SNOMED CT Identifier for the concept is stored in the clinical record.
Pick list can be configured by 'binding' to a SNOMED CT subset, or by enumerating the members of the pick list within the interface design.
The encoding of free text data entry using SNOMED CT, for validation by a user
Using Natural Language Processing tools which work with SNOMED CT
The use of images as a way of selecting coded entries e.g. anatomical images
This is a variation in which SNOMED CT is bound to regions of an image, rather than a coded or text based field