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Wolters Kluwer Health Adds SNOMED-CT Mapping File to Medical Conditions Master Database

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Medical Conditions Master Database, reducing errors and ensuring
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health information services company with annual sales (2003) of EUR
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Type of Organization: Private

Industry: Technology: Software

Key Executives: President: Mark Carey
CTO: Gary Varnell

President
Contact: Mark Carey
Phone: 253-284-0475
Email: mcarey@osoft.

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Other major brands of Wolters Kluwer
Health include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference
tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams + Wilkins; electronic
information providers, such as Ovid Technologies; and pharmaceutical
information provider Adis International.

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SNOMED-CT terminology is becoming the industry standard nationally and
internationally as healthcare providers continue their transition
toward electronic medical records.4 billion. These tools aid in disease management, error reduction,
workflow improvements , and more effective patient management and are
used in thousands of hospitals, pharmacies, and physician offices.com

Company: OSoft, Inc.

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Core Terminology Provides Common Language for Electronic Medical
Records across Various Terminology Platforms

Wolters Kluwer Health, the industry -leading drug and disease
database and healthcare information provider, today announced the
addition of the SNOMED Clinical Terms(R) mapping file to its Medical
Conditions Master Database.

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"This will provide our
customers with the flexibility they need to translate medical
condition codes across a variety of platforms., those
population "subsets" that are unique by age, gender, race, lifestyle
risk factor or medical condition) that can be used to identify data
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The Clinical Tools business unit offers industry-leading
intellectual property, next -generation integrated drug and disease
databases and point-of-care information tools for healthcare
professionals.

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SNOMED-CT's core terminology provides a
common language that enables a consistent way of capturing, sharing
and aggregating health data across specialties and sites of care,
making healthcare knowledge more usable and accessible.

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The SNOMED-CT mapping data will also be added to the Medi-Span's
Drug Information Bridge (DIB) in the near future.

About Wolters Kluwer Health

Wolters Kluwer Health is a leading provider of information for
professionals and students in medicine, nursing, allied health,
pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry.com

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Wolters Kluwer Health's Medical Conditions Master Database
provides medical condition names to identify drug indications, adverse
drug effects, precautions and patient populations (i. The
business unit includes the Medi-Span, Facts and Comparisons,
Clin-eguide and SKOLAR brands.com, founded in 2003, is a leading
provider of open source documentation solutions.

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With the addition of the SNOMED -CT mapping file, current and
future database users will have the ability to link pharmaceutical,
pathological and clinical condition coding using the SNOMED-CT
clinical vocabulary, and to translate between SNOMED-CT and other
terminology languages."
SNOMED-CT's controlled healthcare terminology includes
comprehensive coverage of diseases, clinical findings, therapies,
procedures and outcomes .com is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington.com

Chief Technology Officer
Contact: Gary Varnell
Phone: 360-491-1149
Email: gvarnell@osoft .

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It is used in conjunction with
Medi-Span's clinical databases, including Adverse Drug Effects
Database , Drug Indications Database, Drug-Lab Conflict Database and
Precautions Database.

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It
provides the core general terminology for an electronic health record
(EHR ), containing more than 357,000 concepts with unique meanings and
formal logic-based definitions organized into hierarchies, and is
considered to be the most comprehensive multilingual clinical
reference terminology available globally.

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SNOMED-CT is owned and maintained by SNOMED
international, a division of the College of American Pathologists.

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So, OSoft
has developed the ThoutReader(TM): an open source (free) documentation
platform that allows software developers to browse, search, bookmark ,
and append their favorite library of documentation and code as well as
reference books -- from one program, in one format, at the same time
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Main Telephone: 253-284-0475

Website: http://www.

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"We are extremely pleased to be able to offer our customers the
SNOMED-CT terminology as an addition to their existing Medical
Conditions Master Database," said Ken Killion, CEO of Wolters Kluwer
Health's Clinical Tools business unit.

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Headquarters Address: 2511 South Hood Street
Tacoma , WA 98402
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