Implementing reusable software components for SNOMED CT diagram and expression concept representations
Bánfai, Bázs.; Porció, R.; Kovács, T.
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 205: 1028-1032
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0926-9630 PMID: 25160344 Document Number: 674000
SNOMED CT is a vital component in the future of semantic interoperability in healthcare as it provides the meaning to EHRs via its semantically rich, controlled terminology. Communicating the concepts of this terminology to both humans and machines is crucial therefore formal guidelines for diagram and expression representations have been developed by the curators of SNOMED CT. This paper presents a novel, model-based approach to implementing these guidelines that allows simultaneous editing of a concept via both diagram and expression editors. The implemented extensible software component can be embedded both both desktop and web applications.