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Many of the benefits of SNOMED CT arise from key features of the terminology described in the previous section including global reach, broad clinical scope, logic based design, extensibility and configurability to support language and other national, regional or organizational requirements.

It is widely recognized that use of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) improves communication and increases the availability of relevant information. The added-value of storing and communicating this information using SNOMED CT to represent clinical information is that this enables meaning-based retrieval. The benefits arising from this range from increased opportunities for real time decision support to more accurate retrospective reporting for research and management.

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