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openEHR

An open, domain-driven platform for developing flexible e-health systems.

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• openEHR is an international, not-for-profit foundation._ _

• openEHR develops specifications that are based on, and extend, key aspects of the CEN Standard for Electronic Health Record Communication (EN 13606).

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A process to enable an organization to use SNOMED CT.

• Operational migration may be utilized in an organization with or without a previous clinical coding scheme.

A code or identifier in a code system, classification, or terminology other than SNOMED CT.

Not to be confused with:

• The hyphenated form other-code (or other-codes) is used to avoid confusion with the more general reference to another code.

This is the acronym for web ontology language.

A W3C Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things.

• OWL

• W3C

A reference set that contains general ontology information related to a SNOMED CT edition.

• The OWL ontology reference set follows the OWL Expression Reference Set pattern and is distributed in the OWL expression reference set file.

A formal representation of the web ontology language (OWL) as a simple text base syntax that is used as a bridge between the structural specification and various concrete syntaxes.

• The OWL Functional Syntax is used to represent axioms in OWL Expression Reference Sets.

A reference set that contains OWL axioms that formally define SNOMED CT concepts.

• The OWL axiom reference set follows the OWL Expression Reference Set pattern and is distributed in the OWL expression reference set file.

This is the full name for axiom.

A true statement that serves as a premise or starting point for further reasoning.

• The axioms that specify SNOMED CT concept definition release files as SNOMED CT relationships or as OWL axioms that conform to the OWL Functional Syntax.

• Since July 2019 all axioms in the stated view of concept definitions have been represented as OWL axioms. Before July 2018, the stated view was represented using relationships and during a transitional period ending in July 2019 some axioms in stated view were represented using the OWL functional syntax.

ontology

In the context of SNOMED CT usually refers to Web Ontology Language.

Web Ontology Language

A W3C Semantic Web language designed to represent rich and complex knowledge about things, groups of things, and relations between things.

Alternatives

• OWL

Related

• OWL axiom

• OWL Functional Syntax

• SNOMED CT OWL Guide

• SNOMED CT Logic Profile Specification

• Release File Specification

  • OWL Expression Reference Set

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