Implementation Considerations

When implementing the SNOMED CT Expression Constraint Language, the factors that need to be taken into consideration depend on what tasks are being performed. For example, implementations may require expression constraints to be authored, parsed, validated, executed, stored, displayed or exchanged.
The subsections below look at each of these tasks individually and provide a summary of the factors that should be considered prior to implementation. Please note that the guidance provided below is not a step-by-step how-to manual, but instead provides some general insights that we hope are helpful in implementing this language specification.