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Rodrigues, J.-M., Robinson, D., Della Mea, V., Campbell, J., Rector, A., Schulz, S., et al. (2015) Semantic Alignment between ICD-11 and SNOMED CT. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 216, 790-794.

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• TITLE: International Healthcare Terminologies for Morbidity New Era: SNOMED and ICD11

  AUTHORS: Jean Marie Rodrigues, Constant Kone, Michel Babri, Béatrice Trombert

  KEYWORDS: Lexical Alignment, Semantic Interoperability, Ontology, SNOMED Concept Model, ICD-11, SNOMED CT

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Biosciences and Medicines, Vol.12 No.8, August 27, 2024

  ABSTRACT: The Information Technology (IT) developments have changed the use of Healthcare terminologies from paper-based mortality statistics with the WHO international classifications of diseases (ICD) to the IT-based morbidity implementations for instance for Casemix-based healthcare funding and managing systems. This higher level of granularity is worldwide spread under the umbrella of several national modifications named ICD10 XM. These developments have met the increased use of the International Clinical Reference Terminology named SNOMED. When the updating of WHO ICD10 to WHO ICD11 was decided a merging was envisaged and a WHO SNOMED CT common work proposed a methodology to create a common formal ontology between the 11th version of the WHO International Classification of Diseases and Health Problems (ICD) and the most used in the world clinical terminology named Systematized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine - Clinical Terms (SCT). The present work follows this unachieved work and aims to develop a SNOMED-based formal ontology for ICD11 chapter 1 using the textual definitions of ICD11 codes which is a completely new character of ICD and the ontology tools provided by SCT in the publicly available SNOMED Browser. There are two key results: the lexical alignment is complete and the ontology alignment is incomplete with the validated SNOMED concept model can be completed with not yet validated attributes and values of the SNOMED Compositional Grammar. The work opens a new era for the seamless use of both international terminologies for morbidity for instance for DRG/Casemix and clinical management use. The main limitation is that it is restricted to 1 out of 26 chapters of ICD11.