Use of the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) for Processing Free Text in Health Care: Systematic Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interoperability and secondary use of data is a challenge in health care. Specifically, the reuse of clinical free text remains an unresolved problem. The Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) has become the universal language of health care and presents characteristics of a natural language. Its use to represent clinical free text could constitute a solution to improve interoperability.

Objective

Although the use of SNOMED and SNOMED CT has already been reviewed, its specific use in processing and representing unstructured data such as clinical free text has not. This review aims to better understand SNOMED CT's use for representing free text in medicine.

Methods

A scoping review was performed on the topic by searching MEDLINE, E

SUBMITTER: Gaudet-Blavignac C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7872838 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature