Re: OpenEMed to use SNOMED, Re: HHS announcement regarding Snomed

[David Forslund]

It shouldn't be dependent on SNOMED.  I was only replying to the issue of 
software containing SNOMED. The Terminology Query Service should work with 
UMLS and thus with SNOMED, but also with other vocabularies.   It has a 
limited internal vocabulary now.  We've not implemented the ability to use 
UMLS, although it isn't too hard and we hope to get to it as projects demand.
If someone wants to work on this, it would be appreciated.    We also won't 
supply UMLS.   Basically this is the same
way we support other external commercial software with OpenEMed.  We have 
hooks to them, but you have to supply
the software if you want to use them.

Thanks,

Dave
At 09:51 PM 7/5/2003 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting David Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> I will plan on using SNOMED with OpenEMed, but won't supply it with the
> software.  One will have to get it from SNOMED directly.
Dave,

  Will OpenEMed be dependent on SNOMED or can it work with other
terminologies? In the absence of SNOMED, what terminology will OpenEMed use?
  How does the "Terminology Query Service" fit into this?
Best regards,

Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
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