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One step closer to interoperability: applying SNOMED CT’s engine to the international patient summary
Korea Bizwire ~ Staff writer ~ 25/11/2021
At SNOMED International’s recent October Business Meetings held in London, the organization’s governance bodies enacted a decision to extend the core of SNOMED CT’s structured clinical terminology to deliver an open, standalone sub-ontology to support the scope of content within the International Patient Summary (IPS.)
Long-awaited Wade-Gery review into NHS IT organisations is published
Digital Health News ~ Jon Hoeksma ~ 24/11/2021
The review states that despite much good work, digital transformation is currently fragmented across the system, split between different agencies and is “often overshadowed by requirements of the day-to-day”.
