Hospitals in the Netherlands hold extensive SNOMED-coded data for diagnoses, problems, and procedures, yet this resource is often underutilised. While Clinical BI experts are familiar with ICD-10 due to clinician demand, SNOMED remains largely unexplored. Despite SNOMED codes being accessible in Epic data platforms, a lack of suitable tools limits their use.
How can BI teams leverage the SNOMED ontology (ECL) within Epic, and who has experience doing so?
HELP: has no one knowledge of actual use of SNOMED data in Epic BI solutions?
@PimVolkert thank you for raising this, it’s a very interesting topic. The Implementation Support Team have not learnt anything about this from Members, we are very keen to hear more.
There is a mention of this capability in the SNOMED Data Analytics Guide as a Vendor Study, but it doesn’t say how.
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Within Epic’s integrated analytics and reporting suite (i.e. Cogito) customers have achieved benefits by using SNOMED CT’s clinical finding hierarchy to aggregate local diagnosis concepts.The capability has for example been used by oncologists working with cancer-related ICD codes which are unsuited to grouping diagnoses by stage. Using the mapped SNOMED CT codes they are able to facilitate the reporting of staging data by utilizing the SNOMED CT hierarchy.
Thank you for your reply Kai,
It would be nice to have someone explain how to make use of SNOMED in Epic and add that content to the ‘Practical Guides’ and Epic user Groups.