WHO & IHTSDO Collaborate to Provide Global Health Coding Interoperability
OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News On July 22, 2010, the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO), based in Copenhagen, Denmark, announced an arrangement with the World Health Organization (WHO) to harmonize WHO health care coding classifications for diseases and functioning with the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine-Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT), a standardized system of health terminology. The WHO classifications and SNOMED CT have both enabled health researchers to aggregate results from individual patient health records for health policy, health services management, and research uses. IHTSDO has anticipated that harmonizing the two systems will help to . . .
