London, United Kingdom, March 25 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) formally announced a relationship with SNOMED International Wednesday March 18, 2020. As of last week, the Federal Ministry of Research has given MII participants nationwide a license to use SNOMED CT.
Owned and maintained by SNOMED International, SNOMED CT is the world’s largest clinical terminology, representing a collection of more than 350,000+ clinical concepts and built upon ontological principles and of particular use when applied in research and planning capacities. SNOMED CT’s primary purpose is to support all healthcare professionals in their recording and sharing of detailed patient information within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and across healthcare communities globally. Its ontological foundations allow SNOMED CT data to support detailed data analytics to meet a variety of use cases from local requirements to population-based analytics.