Role of Nursing Informatics in Implementation of SNOMED-CT in India

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2019 Aug 21:264:1718-1719. doi: 10.3233/SHTI190613.

Abstract

SNOMED-CT project under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is operational at AIIMS since July 2016. A team of nurses were recruited under SNOMED project who actively works for integrating existing EHR with SNOMED-CT, monitoring, training of users auditing the data, resets creation and development of National Drug Database. This paper emphasizes role of Nursing Informatics in implementation of SNOMED-CT project in India as well as in any other country.

Keywords: Nursing Informatics (NIS); SNOMED-CT.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • India
  • Nursing Informatics*
  • Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine*