Enrichment of SNOMED CT Ophthalmology Component to Support EHR Coding

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-21-2019

Abstract

The US government has offered major financial incentives to encourage MDs, including ophthalmologists, to adopt Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in their practices. SNOMED CT was designated to be the EHR clinical terminology of choice. However, ophthalmologists in the US do not use SNOMED CT coding in their EHRs in spite of the Convergent Ophthalmology Terminology project by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, which added about 9,000 ophthalmology concepts to SNOMED CT. Hence, the intended interoperability and meaningful use have not been achieved. We examine the various reasons causing this lack of adoption of SNOMED CT, and we address how to enrich the ophthalmology component (OC) of SNOMED CT to create an interface terminology that better supports the EHR coding needs of ophthalmologists. Our proposed enhancements take into consideration the systematic workflow of eye patient visits, enriching the modeling of OC by adding extra part\-of relationships that accelerate access to necessary concepts.

Identifier

85062493403 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781538654880]

Publication Title

Proceedings 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Bibm 2018

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/BIBM.2018.8621272

First Page

1990

Last Page

1997

Grant

R01CA190779

Fund Ref

National Institutes of Health

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