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
2 Gynecology Department, Laboratory Medical School of Ioannina, Greece
3 Laboratory of Physiology, Medical School of Ioannina, Greece
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.
Article Information
Article History:
Received Date: 15/2/2012
Revision Received Date: 25/3/2012
Acceptance Date: 4/4/2012
Electronic publication date: 18/5/2012
Collection year: 2012
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* Address correspondence to this author at the Laboratory of Information Technology, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece; Tel: +302661087429; Fax: +302661087433; E-mail: tkodka@ionio.gr
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