General practice software vendors are well on the way to mapping the coding systems used in their products to the SNOMED clinical terminology, with Best Practice having mapped many of its term sets back in 2009 and Medical Director set to release its cloud-based Helix product mapped to SNOMED CT-AU and the Australian Medicines Terminology.
Some in the industry have reacted with surprise to some of the points outlined in a recent paper from the Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research, which called for the coding systems used in general practice clinical software to be mapped to SNOMED, and to meet national accreditation standards, as a fundamental step towards standardising national primary care data in light of the defunding of the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program.
