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The terminology servers can import data from the SNOMED CT release packages and make the information available to browsers or electronic medical records with convenient APIs that implement best practices in terminology management, including search and sorting algorithms, support for ECL, language filters, hierarchy navigation, etc. Using terminology servers saves the time of implementing these features from scratch starting from the plain text files, and they can provide standardized APIs that simplify the integration into en user applications.

Snowstorm: Open Source Terminology Server

SNOMED International develops and maintains Snowstorm, a SNOMED CT terminology server built on top of Elasticsearch, with a focus on performance and enterprise scalability. Snowstorm provides the terminology server API for the SNOMED International Browser including the International Edition and around fourteen national Extensions. As an open-source tool, Snowstorm can be installed locally to provide a terminology services API to clinical applications.

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Snowstorm source repository is available at: https://github.com/IHTSDO/snowstorm

Other terminology servers

This is a list of terminology servers provided by third parties, with different licensing models, some will implement the standard FHIR APIs and others will have proprietary APIs.

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