Question

Discuss the role of clinical terminologies, such as SnoMed CT, in the development of Healthcare informatics. (500 words)

Answer 1

Clinical documentation is important to every patient encounter. Standardized terminologies provide internationally accepted structured sets of data concepts to reflect the clinical scope of care and services provided to patients. The accurate representation of a patient’s clinical status through the use of standardized
terminologies allows for consistency in information flows and permits the accurate comparability of data underlying quality reports, claims reimbursement, public health data, and population health trending.Standard terminologies normalize the diagnostic process and establish consistency in patient data for
outcomes research. This clinical terminology reduce the work loaded to similar patient care.

Clinical terminologies can be used in clinical practice to aid health professionals with more easily accessible and complete information regarding medical history, illnesses, treatments, laboratory results, and similar facts.this will help the medical professional communicate more efficiently and maje desicion easier.this save time of staff to ensure more care to patient also.the health recording also become standard instead of elaborating the language.and also helps to reduce the errors in the poor communication.

By the use of clinical terminology the healthcare professional can easily understand the patients problem. There by we can reduce the errors. And also the other than healthcare professional can't missuse the document or they can't interfere with this. And also it is very helpful in digital recording of health information. So they can use this simple words instead of long english elaborated sentences.