IT Everything: Found in Translation

[...] Late last month, Kaiser officials announced their gift made to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation, the Denmark-based organization that took over work on the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine, or SNOMED, code family from the College of American Pathologists in 2007.

To new users, the CMT will be licensed under the Apache Version 2 open source license. Copies should be available by November from the National Library of Medicine.

“The purpose of putting this into the open source world is so that we can all have the same terminology in EHRs and PHRs,” says John Mattison, chief medical informatics officer for Kaiser Permanente/Southern California.