Mary-Ellen Wetherspoon Senior Advisor – Clinical Coding New Zealand Health Information Service 14 December 2007

1. Terminology and Classification Mary-Ellen Wetherspoon Senior Advisor – Clinical Coding New Zealand Health Information Service 14 December 2007

2. SNOMED CT ® Taking the mystery out of SNOMED CT ®

3. Is SNOMED CT ® better than ICD?

4. Which one is better?

10. The Family

14. MEMBERS NON-MEMBERS

15. Other = not G25.0, not G25.1 Other = not G25.4 Other specified ‘something’ but not anything that is a member of G25.0, G25.1, G25.2, G25.3, G25.4, G25.5, G25.6 We don’t know what this is, but it should be a member here somewhere, but NOT in any other G25.x

30. Concept Id 75570004 Viral pneumonia Viral respiratory infection Respiratory tract infection SNOMED CT® Concept Infection by site Infectious disease Disorder of respiratory system Respiratory finding Viral infection by site Viral disease Infective pneumonia Infectious disease of lung Disorder of lung Disorder of lower respiratory system Lung finding Lower respiratory tract finding Lower respiratory tract infection Pneumonia Pneumonitis Inflammatory disorder of lower respiratory tract Inflammatory disorder of the respiratory tract Inflammatory disorder of the respiratory system Lung consolidation Finding by site Finding of trunk structure Finding of body region Finding of region of thorax Viscus structure finding Clinical finding Disorder by body site Disorder of body system Disorder of thorax Disorder of trunk Disorder of body cavity Disease Inflammation of specific body systems Inflammation of specific body structures or tissue Inflammation of specific body organs Inflammatory disorder causative agent virus G associated morphology inflammation associated morphology consolidation finding site lung structure