KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Bernama) — SNOMED International and the American Medical Association (AMA) have announced a concrete demonstration of how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and SNOMED CT work together for better outcomes and enhanced resource utilisation in the health ecosystem.
The demonstration project underscores the power of the two terminologies together – providing a clear path from clinical documentation to resource utilisation insights.
According to a statement, the demonstration tool will highlight how health care administrators can leverage both code sets to align resources to population needs in complex clinical areas such as breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
At a broad level, the collaboration aims to improve integration between the CPT and SNOMED CT terminologies, by producing tools for physician practices, hospitals, payers, and other stakeholders to better organise healthcare data.
“The American Medical Association is a valued partner and I am pleased that we have continued to evolve our relationship since our first collaboration was signed in 2016,” offered SNOMED CT Chief Executive Officer, Don Sweete.
“Our next chapter will focus on demonstrating the clinical analytics benefit from using data coded with SNOMED CT, as well as how integration between SNOMED CT and CPT provide key information to support the efficient and cost-effective management of healthcare organisations.
”SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organisation that owns and develops SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive healthcare terminology product. It plays an essential role in improving the health of humankind by determining standards for a codified language that represents groups of clinical terms.
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