An off the shelf terminology solution can save developers a lot of time. However, depending on the feature set offered, you can lose a lot of the capabilities provided by SNOMED CT. Especially so with a FHIR server, whose standardised API supports text searching and subsumption, but little else in … read more...
Today I saw the following enquiry:
“Unfortunately, the software on our automated dispensing cabinets can only accept values up to 15 characters long…”
This is unfortunate, because of the almost 6000 MPUUs in AMT, only 10 are 15 characters or less. And it isn’t the first time the length … read more...
The IHTSDO has a preference to define concepts by Closest proximal primitive (CPP) parent(s). I’m yet to be convinced of the benefit of this approach, and prefer stating any obvious parent (regardless of their definition status) along with a set of defining attributes that are independent of whatever parents … read more...
Some time back I learnt of a feature of description logic – general concept inclusions (GCI). It took me a while to get my head around the idea, but I found this post the most effective, at least for me, in understanding what they were about. The first potential application … read more...
One of the things that frequently talked about in AMT (both V2 and V3) has been the “7 boxes”. From my experience when the AMT model is being discussed, it’s always presented as a single monolithic thing, specifically as per this image below (original available here). However, I feel … read more...
It’s been a year since the last version of SNOyowie RF2 Browser was released, so I thought it’d be useful to document what my plans are for future development – both for my benefit (because I’ll forget) and anybody else wondering what the future status of it is. And maybe … 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...