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In this chapter the author provides some tips and tricks of his own regarding how system designers can get SNOMED CT up and running in their applications. These are not recommendations and may be ignored altogether.
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A survey of SNOMED CT implementations by Dennis Lee et al, ©2012, published by Elsevier Inc. Available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2012.09.006.
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The broader term of ‘clinical data capture’ has been used to allow the addressing of all types of clinical data capture like EHR , EMR, clinical trial data, etc. Any system that captures clinical data is capable of having SNOMED CT support of varying degrees.
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Technical Implementation Guide , July 2014, IHTSDO , used with permission.
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The fields that handle automated data capture from other modules or external sources have not been considered here.
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Those that allow data to be entered as free text in editable fields with maximum lengths varying from 0 (although anything less than 10 characters does not make much sense) to 4096 and beyond characters.
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Bhattacharyya, S.B. (2016). SNOMED CT Tips and Tricks. In: Introduction to SNOMED CT. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-895-3_10
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