On Monday 13 October 2003 08:06, Nandalal Gunaratne wrote: > It is unfortunate that SNOMED is a proprietary system, and quite costly > to use and maintain.
Concur. > IT is likely that many will stick to ICD coding > systems and classifications systems. The recent compltetion of ICD-10-CM > and ICD-10-PCS may mean that SNOMED may not catch on in the way it was > expected. Maybe. The NHS in the UK was a partner in the recent merging of SNOMED and Read. Read has been in use for quite a while and covering in theory 56 000 000 patients. This might not give enough of a base for a complete lemon to keep going, but is somewhat of an installed base. -- From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
