Journal of AHIMA - July 2011

The Regenstrief Institute is expected to collaborate with other standards development organizations, including the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization, to assign SNOMED CT terms to answer sets wherever possible and permissible, leveraging the functionality of both standard terminologies. ¢

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Pat S. Wilson ( pswilson@mmm.com) is medical informaticist at 3M Health Information Systems. Rita A. Scichilone ( rita.scichilone@ahima.org) is director of practice leadership at AHIMA.

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