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In an EMR setting, the following is how diagnosis terminology systems compare...


Criteria

ICD-9-CM
alone

SNOMEDŽ CT
alone

IMO Problem IT
with links to SNOMEDŽ CT
and ICD-9

Ensures billable codes are entered onto chart

Unique ID to maintain stable term-to-code and code-to-term mappings over time

Preferred map from terms to administrative codes (every term has a billable code) and from codes to terms

Clinician friendly terms (vernacular, common,
abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms)

Patient friendly terms

Provides different maps for clinicians, coders, and patients

Linkage to SNOMEDŽ CT, MeSH, UMLS

AHIMA review of explicit maps

Captures clinical intent

Support for longitudinal care tagging

Updates per year

1-2210

New code request turnaround time

1+ yearsmonths+~6 weeks