Our approach starts with an initial content analysis – separating ‘readily mappable` and nearly conformant content from the more challenging items. Our experts then identify/create templates/patterns for content based on our analysis. We use an agile iterative approach to progress content in batches based on patterns, existing mappings, etc. This agile and batch approach ensures that we prepare content for busy clinicians to review and address queries, while we continue to progress with batches that have already been reviewed. Our experts can help create and document additional editorial principles for specific contextual use cases (or patterns) for your extensions.
Our authoring platform (Termnexus) enables agile iterative content creation based on patterns/templates to be done in parallel with collaborative review by experts (e.g. clinicians). It also allows content in different stages of development (and review) to be managed seamlessly. We can very rapidly turn around large volumes of high quality content using these tooling features and content analysis mentioned above. We can further embed some editorial principles and patterns in our tooling to support maintenance in the longer term. We used this approach to create ~1800 concepts for the Unified Test List (a new Pathology standard based on SNOMED CT) for NHS Digital.
Often existing content and associated enterprise identifiers (codes) must be retained. Termnexus has mapping capabilities on top of basic content management functionality, which allow legacy/enterprise content to be migrated as mappings to newly created SNOMED CT content. This allows our clients to continue using the legacy/custom codes as part of their workflow while they plan their migration to native SNOMED CT. In our recent projects, we have supported the creation of SNOMED CT codes for legacy codes (based on Read `Y` codes) for HJIS (Health and Justice Information Services). We enable a similar approach to migration of legacy pathology (laboratory medicine) content to SNOMED CT.
Our authoring experts include Sarah Harry (Senior Terminology Specialist) and Malcolm Duncan (SNOMED CT expert and informatician).
Sarah is an internationally accredited SNOMED CT author and has long experience of authoring both SNOMED CT and Read codes. She used to lead the NHS Digital SNOMED CT terminology authoring team for many years and so has extensive experience of requirements analysis and engaging with external stakeholders.
Malcolm has extensive experience of addressing SNOMED CT related challenges and supports major suppliers (e.g. First Databank) with their SNOMED CT content updates. He is also an accredited SNOMED CT implementation advisor and was a member of the UK SNOMED CT Edition Committee.
We have additional senior authoring expertise available if the client needs work to be completed at very tight deadlines.
We have extensive experience of using SNOMED CT in health care products. We have helped clients create SNOMED CT enabled products and we also use SNOMED CT in products we offer to the NHS. We can assist you in accessing content and specific features of SNOMED CT.
We have created subsets that are used within our own products and also helped design them for clients, including national programmes. We have a deep understanding of the needs of clinical users in using SNOMED CT for data entry (too many results, word order, relevance of results,etc) and how subsets can be leveraged to meet clinical requirements, while avoiding the challenges associated with refsets.
We have designed data entry screens that leverage SNOMED CT content using basic functionality like string matching to advanced features like Expression Constraint Language (ECL) queries for dynamically constraining data entry. We have also built end to end demonstrators that showcases how SNOMED CT coded healthcare records can be stored and retrieved – using both pre and post-coordinated data and queries.
For enterprises and national programmes requiring their own SNOMED CT content (extension), we have expert knowledge and practical experience in helping.
We have helped clients realise the benefits of SNOMED CT data analytics. We understand the rules around the complex maps published by NHS Digital and SNOMED International and can assist you in fulfilling your mandatory dataset and reporting requirements.
We have experience of supporting implementation activities in three national programmes – UK, Singapore and Sweden. Members in our team have also been elected to Advisory (Committee) roles in SNOMED International. We worked closely with NHS Digitial in the design and delivery of their strategy of national pathology standards, based on SNOMED CT.
Need to support SNOMED CT based interoperability in your products? We support the use of SNOMED CT terminology server APIs.