Now that we are all celebrating our new era of 'snomed'ness in Australia, I was wondering what you docs thought was the best user interface for coding diseases and procedures you have experienced.. what works, what doesn't - any info would be great.
For instance, I just did a search on diabetes in a snomed browser and got 216 hits.. presumably one would not want to be presented with this list when coding a patient in a consult. Should there be recognised subsets of snomed codes that clinical software uses at the first instance (display only from this list but have a 'click here for more' button if its not a routinely encountered disease). If so, what body should be responsible for creating this list? (I am aware that various GP bodies have already done work like this - did you feel it adequately addressed your needs? What were the limitations of these subsets?) Alternatively, should the whole snomed hierarchies be displayed so that one could choose 'Diabetes mellitus' at the first instance, and then see underneath its children type 1, type 2 etc.. How graphical should this heirarchy browsing be? or is a natural language interface ala jon patrick's group's work the holy grail? Inquiring (IT) minds want to know! Andrew _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
