[Histonet] SNOMED users guide

[joelle weaver]

http://ihtsdo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/doc/download/doc_UserGuide_Current-en-US_INT_20130731.pdf
SNOMED USERS GUIDE



Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
 
> From: joelleweaver <@t> hotmail.com
> To: rsrichmond <@t> gmail.com; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 21:23:37 +0000
> Subject: RE: [Histonet] Re: SNOMED
> CC: 
> 
> Thanks Dr. Richmond, in advance hopes that you will share your cheat sheet for those of us who are building LIS pathology systems and associated dictionaries with billing codes!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Joelle Weaver MAOM, HTL (ASCP) QIHC
>  
> > Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:21:19 -0500
> > From: rsrichmond <@t> gmail.com
> > To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> > Subject: [Histonet] Re: SNOMED
> > 
> > Tanya G. Abbott RT (CSMLS), Manager Technologist, Histology/Cytology, St.
> > Joseph Medical Center, Reading, PA asks:
> > 
> > >>Can anyone give me a brief synopsis of how this SNOMED thing works?
> > Please?<<
> > 
> > SNOMED (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine), in its current avatar of
> > SNOMED CT, is in my experience (over 60 pathology services) not in
> > widespread use in the US. Wikipedia has a perfectly incomprehensible
> > article about SNOMED CT.
> > 
> > Is it possibly that someone has confused SNOMED with ICD-10, the new
> > diagnostic coding system going into use on October first of this year?
> > They're not the same.
> > 
> > As soon as I can get my hands on a copy of ICD-10 (everybody I know is
> > doing a deer in the headlights with the whole issue) I'll be updating my
> > ICD-9 "cheat sheet" that has the most commonly needed pathology codes all
> > on one crowded page. I'll be looking for somebody authoritative to review
> > it when I get it written.
> > 
> > Bob Richmond
> > Samurai Pathologist and reluctant coder
> > Maryville TN
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