The Open Medical Informatics Journal

2012, 6 : 15-25
Published online 2012 May 18. DOI: 10.2174/1874431101206010015
Publisher ID: TOMINFOJ-6-15

RESEARCH ARTICLE
Digital Management of a Hysteroscopy Surgery Using Parts of the SNOMED Medical Model

Anastasios Kollias, *,1 , Minas Paschopoulos2 , Angelos Evangelou3 and Marios Poulos1
1 Laboratory of Information Technology, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece
2 Gynecology Department, Laboratory Medical School of Ioannina, Greece
3 Laboratory of Physiology, Medical School of Ioannina, Greece

* Address correspondence to this author at the Laboratory of Information Technology, Department of Archives and Library Sciences, Ionian University, Greece; Tel: +302661087429; Fax: +302661087433; E-mail: tkodka@ionio.gr

ABSTRACT

This work describes a hysteroscopy surgery management application that was designed based on the medical information standard SNOMED. We describe how the application fulfils the needs of this procedure and the way in which existing handwritten medical information is effectively transmitted to the application’s database.

Keywords:

Conceptual database design, hysteroscopy, interoperability, medical information management, SNOMED.