Yesterday I was explaining to a colleague that reference sets can be used to do all sorts of interesting things other than just describe basic subsets of content, when I realised an option I’d not considered before…
The SNOMED CT RF2 specification details a core structure of 6 fields (the … read more...
This week while trying to map some terms to SNOMED CT, I discovered what might be considered a trivial ambiguity, but is a good example of where cultural variations – even amongst reasonably similar countries – is a potential hazard with understanding what is meant by some concepts in the … read more...
Everybody likes to talk about how necessary refsets are, but I’m not sure if the reason why is always known. One of the challenges facing implementers is how might they use what’s available and what else might they actually need?
So here’s what I think are two fundamental use cases … read more...