Hi Tim,
I think the bureaucracy is all but inevitable given the fact that it is American, currently proprietary, IP that is involved and the SDO does not yet exist.
Like you I am pleased Jon's work can now go ahead full bore.
Cheers
David
---- Dr David G More MB, PhD, FACHI Phone +61-2-9438-2851 Fax +61-2-9906-7038 Skype Username : davidgmore E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] HealthIT Blog - www.aushealthit.blogspot.com On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 11:10:31 +1000, Tim Churches wrote:
> Peter MacIsaac (MacIsaac Informatics) wrote:
>> It is with great pleasure that I draw your attention to a NEHTA press release
>>
>> “7 July 2006: NEHTA signs up for free distribution of global health language in Australia.
>>
>> NEHTA today announced that it has recently signed an agreement with SNOMED International that enables the free use of SNOMED Clinical Terms® in Australia
>> from July 1 2006.”
>>
>> Further information at:
>>
> This is good news indeed. However, I sincerely hope that NEHTA make the necessary SNOMED-CT distribution files readily available to everyone with a minimum
> of bureaucratic fuss. The above-referenced press release includes this instruction:
>
> "Organisations who are interested in gaining free access to SNOMED CT for use in Australia should register their interest with NEHTA by emailing
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "
>
> I would encourage all members of this list to send an email to the above NEHTA address expressing their interest, even if that interest extends no further
> than casually browsing through it to see what's there.
>
> On that note, I imagine that it will now be possible for the proof-of-concept Web-based free-text-to-SNOMED-CT-concept processing facility built by Jon
> Patrick's students at Sydney Uni can now be modified to return the actual SNOMED-CT concept ID (and associated descriptions) to those providing test data.
> That will allow more informed feedback to be able to be provided by test users.
>
> Another suggestion for Jon's students: a Web-based SNOMED-CT browser/search facility, perhaps using some nifty Web 2.0/AJAX methods to provide good
> interactivity, would be a boon, and likely to be very popular both here in Oz and around the world. At the moment, most SNOMED-CT browsing is done using a
> free (but not open source) Visual Basic GUI application called CLUE (see
> http://www.clininfo.co.uk/clue5/index.htm ), which is adequate but not great, and needs to be installed, along with the underlying SNOMED-CT data files, on
> every (Windows-only) computer on which you need to use it. So Twentieth Century...
>
> A SNOMED-CT look-up facility as a Web service would probably be popular too, especially if it were licensed under an open source license which permitted
> integration with both open source and closed source clinical applications (i.e. Mozilla or BSD licenced, rather than GPLed). There is first-mover advantage
> to be had here, as suddenly a brand new sub-market in SNOMED-CT-related health IT software has opened up overnight in Oz (and by extension in other parts of
> the world using or planning to use SNOMED-CT).
>
> Tim C
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