RESEARCH ARTICLE
Digital Management of a Hysteroscopy Surgery Using Parts of the SNOMED Medical Model
Anastasios Kollias*, 1, Minas Paschopoulos2, Angelos Evangelou3, Marios Poulos1
1 Laboratory of Information Technology, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2012Volume: 6
First Page: 15
Last Page: 25
Publisher Id: TOMINFOJ-6-15
DOI: 10.2174/1874431101206010015
Article History:
Received Date: 15/2/2012Revision Received Date: 25/3/2012
Acceptance Date: 4/4/2012
Electronic publication date: 18/5/2012
Collection year: 2012
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Abstract
This work describes a hysteroscopy surgery management application that was designed based on the medical information standard SNOMED. We describe how the application fulfils the needs of this procedure and the way in which existing handwritten medical information is effectively transmitted to the application’s database.
Keywords: Conceptual database design, hysteroscopy, interoperability, medical information management, SNOMED.
