In response to letter to the editor: ‘Concerning SNOMED-CT content for public health case reports’ | Zendy

Deepthi Rajeev | Zendy; Catherine J. Staes | Zendy; Scott R. Evans | Zendy; Susan Mottice | Zendy; Robert T. Rolfs | Zendy; Matthew H. Samore | Zendy; Jon Whitney | Zendy; Richard Kurzban | Zendy; Stanley M. Huff | Zendy

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In response to letter to the editor: ‘Concerning SNOMED-CT content for public health case reports’

Author(s) -

Deepthi Rajeev,

Catherine J. Staes,

Scott R. Evans,

Susan Mottice,

Robert T. Rolfs,

Matthew H. Samore,

Jon Whitney,

Richard Kurzban,

Stanley M. Huff

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

journal of the american medical informatics association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.614

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1527-974X

pISSN - 1067-5027

DOI - 10.1136/jamia.2010.005272

Subject(s) - snomed ct , computer science , public health , information retrieval , natural language processing , medicine , medical physics , artificial intelligence , pathology , linguistics , terminology , philosophy

We are grateful for the careful review of our article by Wilcke et al. 1 We would like to reaffirm our belief that SNOMED CT is an extremely useful terminology and the best current choice for the representation of clinical findings generally, and specifically for the representation of findings in public health case reports. The broad use of SNOMED CT will lead to the understanding of important modeling issues as well as improved SNOMED CT content.We appreciate the respondents' clarification that ‘porcine enteric adenomatosis’ is a species-independent disorder. However, the fact that we held this erroneous opinion is understandable. As ‘Porcine’ is in …

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