Practice Question Of the Week: SNOMED CT

Metcalfe's law

Where does this fit within the core content?

• 1. Fundamentals
• 2. Clinical Decision Making & Care Process Improvement
• 3. Health Information Systems
• 3.1 Health IT Systems
• 3.2 Human Factors Engineering
• 3.3 Health Information Systems and Applications
• 3.4 Clinical Data Standards
• 3.4.1 Standards development history and current process
• 3.4.2 Data standards and data sharing
• 3.4.3 Transaction standards
• 3.4.4 Messaging standards
• 3.4.5 Nomenclatures, vocabularies, and terminologies
• 3.4.6 Ontologies and taxonomies
• 3.4.7 Interoperability standards
• 3.5 Information Life Cycle
• 4. Leading and Managing Change

Why Nomenclatures, Terminologies, and Vocabularies are Important

• SNOMED-CT
• LOINC
• ICD-9/10
• HCPCS
• DRG
• CDT
• CPT-4
• NDC
• RxNORM
• UMDNS
• and others

SNOMED-CT

Question

SNOMED CT focuses on ________ while LOINC focuses on ________.

1. Recording Clinical Data, Test and Observations

2. Medical Procedures, Recording Diagnoses

3. Tests and Observations, Recording Clinical Data

4. Recording Diagnoses, Medical Procedures

Explanation and Answer

• LOINC focuses on test observations
• SNOMED-CT focuses on recording clinical data
• CPT focuses on medical procedures
• ICD focuses on recording diagnoses
• Component
• Kind of Property
• Time Aspect
• System/Sample Type
• Type of Scale
• Type of Method

Further Studying

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References and Recommended Reading

SNOMED-CT

LOINC