The OpenClinical newsletter, 1 August 2005

Recently published on www.OpenClinical.org

Background

Medical terminologies: vocabularies, nomenclatures, coding and classification systems

ICD: International Classification of Diseases

LOINC : Logical Observation Identifiers, Names and Codes

SNOMED CT : Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms

Research

— Projects

CARDSS : Large-scale trial of a decision support system for cardiac rehabilitation

Clinical

— Applications

Cardiology : Guidelines from the European Society of Cardiology for Pocket PC and Palm Devices

STDs : CDC STD Treatment Guidelines for Palm OS Devices

TB : CDC Tuberculosis Treatment Guidelines for Palm OS

— Demonstrators

medrapid : Web-based medical knowledge base

Commercial

— Suppliers

Lexi-Comp : Point-of-care knowledge and decision support

Expanded listings of commercial suppliers of clinical knowledge management products.

Richard Thomson
Editor OpenClinical
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