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Avelina

After reading and my experience with the site I am not sure if SNOMED CT’s content is sufficient enough to represent most information on a patient’s record as it may still be limited to some things, but I believe it represents most. SNOMED CT is universally used across many countries, being one of the most advanced healthcare systems to document data using over 300,000 unique codes and terminologies. There are thousands of unique codes assigned to diagnoses on SNOMED CT that are specific to the diagnoses of every patient. The data that is recorded and represented using SNOMED CT regarding a patient’s medical record is helpful for many clinicians to get a good understanding on a patient’s medical history to provide the best care. Although SNOMED CT is one of the most useful systems used in healthcare for patient record documentation, I don’t think it is able to represent all patient information without the utilization of other systems such as ICD-10. SNOMED CT is superior to many other systems, but I think there is still room for improvement before it can cover every detail about a patient medical situation. 

Elkin, P. (n.d.). Evaluation of the content coverage of SNOMED CT: Ability of SNOMED clinical terms to represent clinical problem lists. Mayo Clinic proceedings. Retrieved February 2, 2023, from https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16770974/ 

Tiffany

No, SNOMED CT, while a comprehensive clinical terminology, is not sufficient to represent all the information in a person's health record. A person's health record contains a wide range of information, including demographic information, diagnostic and treatment history, test results, images, and other relevant data, which cannot be fully represented by SNOMED CT alone. Other data models and standards may be required to fully represent all the information in a person's health record.

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