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When implemented in software applications, can be used to represent clinically relevant information consistently, reliably and comprehensively as an integral part of producing electronic health information.

Implementation requires an understanding of the way that  content is represented by  and supported by  (Refsets).

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has a broad coverage of health related topics. It can be used to describe a patient's medical history, the details of an orthopedic procedure, the spread of epidemics, and much more. At the same time, the terminology has an unmatched depth, which enables clinicians to record data at the appropriate level of granularity.

Specific applications tend to focus on a restricted set of , such as  related to ophthalmology. These  can be used to present relevant parts of the terminology, depending on the clinical context and local requirements. This means for example, that a drop down list to select diagnoses in an  in a mental health facility can be tailored to that setting. Similarly,  can be defined for problem lists for physician specialties or to provide appropriate medication lists for nurses in community care.

When individual jurisdictions have needs beyond those that can be reflected in a global terminology, perhaps due to requirements in local legislation, they can develop local or national . Thus, even though  is global in scope, it can be adapted to each country's or areas requirements.  maps work to provide explicit links to health related classifications and coding schemes in use around the world, e.g.  such as , and . Maps to or from several national code systems are also available from, or under development, by . Maps to or from clinical domain specific code systems are also maintained by specialty groups with which  has collaborative agreement. Maps facilitate reuse of  based clinical data for other purposes, such as reimbursement or statistical reporting.

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