SNOWMED-CT and MEDCIN is used to build Electronic health record
system.
SNOWMED
It began over40 years ago.
It adopted ideas from the college of American Pathologists and
The UK National health service.iIt gathers data for
diseases,substances ,clinical findings and information on drugs and
code the information in internationally usable computer terms.
Its performance is multilingual health and its medical database
is brilliant.
It is designed to classify and organize data afte it has been
entered into the EHR system.
Medcin
It was developed by Medicomp systems
IIt began within the last quarter century.
It has an enormous medical vocabulary.
It provides easy acess to the processing of patient history and
other health related tests.
It is a powerful engine which was designed to be used as a
point of care medical word bank and uses about numerous clinical
data elements.