Seoul National University Reports Findings in Health Technology and Informatics (Mapping Korean National Health Insurance Claim Codes for Laboratory Test to SNOMED CT): Health Information Technology – Health Technology and Informatics

2023 JUN 05 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Business Daily -- New research on Health Information Technology - Health Technology and Informatics is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Seoul, South Korea, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “The aim of this study was to map Korean national health insurance claims codes for laboratory tests to SNOMED CT. The mapping source codes were 4,111 claims codes for laboratory test and mapping target codes were the International Edition of SNOMED CT released on July 31, 2020.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Seoul National University, “We used rule-based automated and manual mapping methods. The mapping results were validated by two experts. Out of 4,111 codes, 90.5% were mapped to the concepts of procedure hierarchy in SNOMED CT.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Of them, 51.4% of the codes were exactly mapped to SNOMED CT concepts, and 34.8% of the codes were mapped to SNOMED CT concepts as one-to-one mapping.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Mapping Korean National Health Insurance Claim Codes for Laboratory Test to SNOMED CT. Caring is Sharing - Exploiting the Value in Data for Health and Innovation, 2023;302:78-82.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Hyeoun-Ae Park, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Sumi Sung, Seul Ki Park, Hyesil Jung, Hannah Kang and Min Sun Lee.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.3233/shti230068. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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