On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Adrian Midgley wrote: > 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.
Nandalal and Adrian, I believe it is "fair-use" to annotate items and responses on forms with their corresponding SNOMED code. Use and re-distributing of these annotated forms should not require purchasing SNOMED licenses. Am I wrong? Certainly, any collection of forms thus annotated can be used to re-construct a data dictionary that eventually replicates some substantial subset of the original SNOMED codes list. However, that should not lead to any copyright infringement since that would be the same as claiming quoting one sentence from a book should require purchasing an entire book, since these quoted sentences can be combined to re-construct a substantial portion of or even the entire book. > > 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. How are SNOMED and Read currently incorporated and used in electronic information systems? How do they compare with the ICD systems? Best regards, Andrew --- Andrew P. Ho, M.D. OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes www.TxOutcome.Org
