sneumersky (1/8/2014)
It is important to note that:SNOMED more facilitates information input into an electronic record during patient care (OLTP in concept)
Conversly, ICD facilitates data retrieval for purposes outside of patient care (i.e. reporting/OLAP).
This is a nice solution for extending SNOMED to serve in the latter role; although, I believe there are efforts going on to map SNOMED to ICD (if it is even possible?).
Mapping is available from SnomedCT to ICD10, ICD-O and OPCS4.
There is much work being done to facilitate the analytical role of SnomedCT and the approach described hereis part of that.
Tony