Presenters

David Markwell and Jon Zammit

Audience

Anyone with an interest in implementing SNOMED CT solutions, including clinicians, vendors and project managers.

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This tutorial provides a high level roadmap for SNOMED CT implementation, from adoption to planning, specification, procurement, design, development, deployment, and use. Strategies to ensure successful implementation, and a range of additional implementation techniques will also be covered.

Objectives

After attending this tutorial, the participant should be able to:

• Summarize the phases of SNOMED CT implementation
• Describe key stakeholders and explain their involvement in a SNOMED CT implementation
• Summarize key strategies to ensure implementation success
• Explain the importance of effective and efficient search capabilities
• Describe techniques for entering data using SNOMED CT

References

• Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT - http://snomed.org/vendor
• SNOMED CT Search and Data Entry - http://snomed.org/search
• Technical Implementation Guide - http://snomed.org/tig
• Terminology Services Guide - http://snomed.org/tsg 
• Record Services Guide - http://snomed.org/rsg 

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