The document discusses the use of SNOMED-CT and ICD codes in electronic health records to meet meaningful use criteria. It states that SNOMED-CT allows providers to communicate using a common language and improves accuracy of patient data analysis. It also notes that healthcare providers must be aware of and use SNOMED-CT in their EHRs to meet meaningful use incentives and support the transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 coding.

1. The common language between two code sets
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2.  The stage 2 meaningful use criteria is growing to improve the health care IT to
deliver for the particular patient
 The usage of SNOMED-CT empowers EMR and providers to get in communication
in a common language.
 SNOMED-CT also improves the accuracy of patient data analysis.
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3.  The SNOMED CT adoption is crucial for health care providers by 2015 for the
meaningful use certification
 The front line of a national movement is the health system
 Mostly providers use the International Classification of Diseases, Clinical
Modification ICD-9-CM.
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4.  The meaningful use requirement is the usage of standardized problem list.
 This promote interoperability between health care facilities, also the applications
of hardware and software.
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5.  The big implementation job is the transition from the recent ICD-9-CM
 Mostly physicians do not have problem lists, period in their EHR systems
 According to the planning, there is a migration in the industry to ICD-10-CM in the
middle of the transition
 The EHR vendors using their own exclusive abbreviations and descriptions of the
patients condition
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6.  All of the collected data on classification system, using SNOMED-CT, will be
reported
 The especial reporting will be required by the Affordable Care Act
 The documentation specificity is the problem which require some other different
ways.
 About the physicians usage, it is suitable to talk about the usage of SNOMED-CT to
enter data

7.  SNOMED-CT and ICD-10 are different systems, but working perfectly collected
 SNOMED-CT is designed for the input into an EHR and ICD-10 is to output
 The Health care providers must be aware about SNOMED-CT for the usage of their
EHRs plus for the Meaningful Use incentives.
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8.  Healthcare providers are using EHRs to act in accordance with Meaningful Use
initiatives.
 Clinicians require to document more information to support ICD-10 coding.
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9.  SNOMED-CT terms can be planned to ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes.
 SNOMED-CT terms are suited research and clinical settings.
 The ICD-11 code set will planned like SNOMED-CT. Clinicians will use SNOMED
for ICD-10 transition and allow the practice management systems to handle ICD-11
codes
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