What's in a Class? Lessons Learnt from the ICD-SNOMED CT Harmonisation

Stefan Schulz, Jean M. Rodrigues, Alan Rector, Kent Spackman, James Campbell, Bedirhan Üstün, Christopher G. Chute, Harold Solbrig, Vincenzo Della Mea, Jane Millar, Kristina Brand Persson

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10 Scopus citations

Abstract

The upcoming ICD-11 will be harmonized with SNOMED CT via a common ontological layer (CO). We provide evidence for our hypothesis that this cannot be appropriately done by simple ontology alignment, due to diverging ontological commitment between the two terminology systems. Whereas the common ontology describes clinical situations, ICD-11 linearization codes are best to be interpreted as diagnostic statements. For the binding between ICD codes and classes from the ontological layer, a query-based approach is favoured.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicatione-Health - For Continuity of Care - Proceedings of MIE 2014
EditorsLouise Pape-Haugaard, Brigitte Seroussi Brigitte, Osman Saka, Christian Lovis, Arie Hasman, Stig Kjaer Andersen
PublisherIOS Press
Pages1038-1042
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781614994312
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event25th European Medical Informatics Conference, MIE 2014 - Istanbul, Turkey
Duration: Aug 31 2014Sep 3 2014

Publication series

NameStudies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume205
ISSN (Print)0926-9630
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8365

Conference

Conference25th European Medical Informatics Conference, MIE 2014
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIstanbul
Period8/31/149/3/14

Keywords

  • Classification
  • ICD
  • Ontology
  • SNOMED CT
  • Terminology

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Health Informatics
  • Health Information Management

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