Friday, September 09, 2005
Few Brits at SNOMED International User Group
Why are so few Brits here at the 7th Annual SNOMED User Group Meeting in Chicago? I can only find two other paying delegates on the delegate list, in addition to David Markwell and Ed Cheetham who are speaking, yet Iceland has 6 people here.
SNOMED CT is one of the mission-critical standards on which the whole NHS Connecting for Health programme is based. It tackles the most complex issue in health informatics – structured clinical terminology – and is inevitably complex itself. As Kent Spackman pointed out yesterday, even implementing a problem list is "non-trivial". Do people recognise that they do not know what they do not know!
SNOMED CT is one of the mission-critical standards on which the whole NHS Connecting for Health programme is based. It tackles the most complex issue in health informatics – structured clinical terminology – and is inevitably complex itself. As Kent Spackman pointed out yesterday, even implementing a problem list is "non-trivial". Do people recognise that they do not know what they do not know!
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The reason that so few 'Brits' were at the CAP SCT UG is that the SCT Working Groups were only 4-weeks later in London and as all of us who have to convince our bosses of the business cases for our activities have trouble getting money for international flights when there's a domestic meeting so soon afterwards.
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