SNOMED In 5 Minutes

This is an easy-to-use tutorial for accessing SNOMED APIs within 5 min using the SNOMED International terminology server, Snowstorm.

Table of Contents

1. Project Structure
2. Examples
3. Resources
4. Contributing
5. License

Project Structure

• top-level: aggregator for sub-modules (alphabetically):

  • android-client-snomed-browser: examples for use in an Android client
  • csharp-examples: examples with csharp (.net)
  • curl-examples: examples with curl
  • java-examples: examples with java
  • javascript-examples: examples with javascript
  • model: JAXB-enabled classes for representing the RF2 domain model
  • php-examples: examples with php
  • python3-examples: examples with python
  • rest-client: a Java client for the REST services
  • rest-client-csharp: a CSharp client for the REST services
  • ruby-examples: examples with Ruby based on the Python examples
  • go-examples: examples with golang

Examples

The following examples will be used to demonstrate accessing the SNOMED API through CSharp, Javascript, Curl, and Java (using Jersey).

• Find a concept by a string (e.g. "heart attack")
• Find/get a concept by a description SCTID (e.g. "679406011")
• Find/get a concept by a concept SCTID (e.g. "109152007")
• Find a concept by a string (e.g. "heart") but only in the Procedures semantic tag

All of the examples use a hard coded URL, edition name, and version number which point to a server hosted by SNOMED International (www.snomed.org). These are the APIs that back the SNOMED International browser (https://browser.ihtsdotools.org)

• baseUrl = https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/snowstorm/snomed-ct/

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Javascript

• Click for JavaScript examples.

Curl

• Click for Curl examples.

Python

• Click for Python examples.

Ruby

• Click for Ruby examples.

PHP

• Click for PHP examples.

Golang

• Click for GO examples.

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Needing some TLC

The following examples are out of date and need updating to wokr with Snowstorm. All contributions welcome!

Android client

• Click for Android examples.

CSharp (.net)

• Click for CSharp examples.

Java

• Click for Java examples.

Further Documentation

Find comprehensive documentation here: TBD

Resources

• SNOMED International SNOMED CT browser: http://browser.ihtsdotools.org
• Snowstorm SNOMED CT Terminology Server: https://github.com/IHTSDO/snowstorm (REST documentation here https://browser.ihtsdotools.org/snowstorm/snomed-ct/)

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Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

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Current Contributors

• Brian Carlsen
• Alejandro Lopez Osornio
• Jesse Efron
• Philip Wilford
• Omid Mavadati
• Ahmed Mohamed
• Kai Kewley
• Other Contributors

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License

Apache 2.0

See the included LICENSE file for details.

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Suggestions for Future Work

• 'supporting registration for a British GP' (i.e. searching within the GP/FP reference set & the UK language reference set)
• 'deriving ICD-10 codes from registered SNOMED concepts (i.e. retrieving all entries of a SNOMED-concept from the ICD-10 extended mapping reference set)