Implementing SNOMED CT can be made much easier with the effective use of tooling. SNOMED CT tools can help to support a range of implementation tasks, from managing the creation and maintenance of reference sets, maps and translations, to providing terminology services to effectively access SNOMED CT content from a software application. You can explore the wide range of SNOMED CT tooling options available below.
Allow implementers to create and maintain subsets of SNOMED CT codes for a specific use case, e.g. data entry of diagnoses for a clinical specialty, prioritisation of translations, data analytics queries, etc.
Support the creation and maintenance of mappings between SNOMED CT and other code systems, e.g. local codes, billing codes, statistical classifications, to facilitate a wide range of implementation use cases, e.g. migration to SNOMED CT, data integration, reporting.
Translation tools support the creation of SNOMED CT descriptions in different languages, while enforcing a quality assurance process that includes reviews and validations against guidelines and specifications.
Producing standard SNOMED CT releases that can be imported into terminology servers and other applications requires to closely follow many conventions and specifications. The Release Manager tools support the creation and validation of release packages.
Implementing a central solution that provides access to all the SNOMED CT content and features, a SNOMED CT Terminology Server, is the most common implementation architecture. It simplifies the development of clinical applications that consume these terminology services through APIs.
This collection of best practice recommendations and open source examples demonstrate the possibilities for developing search and data entry user interfaces in end user applications.
A set of tools and demonstrations on how data analytics processes can benefit from the use of SNOMED CT and the capabilities provided by the use of an ontology.