Mitrais has signed an agreement with International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation to license the use of SNOMED CT, a language which enables healthcare professionals worldwide to exchange information in clear and unambiguous terms.

Mitrais director of strategic alliances Tarasanti Anindyapraba said licensing the use of SNOMED CT streamlines the ongoing development of MMS for hospitals and clinics in a number of important regional markets.

SNOMED CT will help ensure standard healthcare terminology is used for each clinical field within each application screen of the Mitrais Medical Suite (MMS). “It will also help medical professionals to employ standard clinical information in the analysis of patients’ data and treatment. “Additionally, SNOMED CT can be used as a decision support system. Its concepts can represent guidelines for distribution to other software standards such as i.e. HL,” Tarasanti said.

SNOMED CT embedded in Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems works behind the scenes to support the encoding of discrete clinical information in a meaningful way. Designed to support the EHR, SNOMED CT enables numerous benefits including improvements in the quality of data available for health services research, measurement of clinical outcomes also, improvements in the completeness, accuracy, and consistency of health record documentation. As an affiliate member of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation, Mitrais benefits from ongoing specialist input to evaluate and endorse the terminology. It also supports the development of richer computer-aided clinical decision-support systems, such as clinical alert and reminder systems, with the greater detail available.

SNOMED CT® stands for Clinical Terminology - the Systematised Nomenclature of Medicine Clinical Terms. It is a joint development between the UK National Health Service and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) to improve and safeguard patient care by using an agreed terminology.