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SNOMED CT® Browsers

The following table lists SNOMED CT terminology browsers that have been discussed in IHTSDO forums or in the paper cited below*. This list is solely provided as an added resource and is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all SNOMED CT browsers. To have a browser added to this list, please send a message to NLM Customer Service with the subject “SNOMED CT Browser.”

Disclaimer: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) does not endorse in any way the browsers described here. NLM does not make any warranty, expressed or implied, or assume any liability or responsibility for the use of these browsers.

Browser

URL

Free

Registration required

Web-based

Local installation

Notes

CaTTS (Coding and Taxonomy / Terminology Service)

http://www.jdet.com

x

 

x

 

Demo version only, from BT (British Telecommunications plc). The CaTTS server available at http://www.jdet.com is being decommissioned and will not be available after July 3, 2009.

CliniClue

http://www.cliniclue.com

x

x

 

x

 

HealthTerm

http://www.carecom.dk/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=27

 

x

x

 

HealthTerm also contains modules for request submission, concept modelling, qualification, distribution, subset extraction, translation and mapping.

HLi LExPlorer

http://www.snomed.cfh.nhs.uk/lexplorer

 

 

 

x

 

Athens account required

Mycroft

http://www.apelon.com/products/mycroft.htm

x

x

 

x

 

NCI Terminology Browser

http://nciterms.nci.nih.gov/NCIBrowser

x

 

x

 

 

OpenKnoME 5.4d and ClaW Workbench

http://www.opengalen.org/sources/software.html

 

x

 

 

x

 

Protégé

http://protege.stanford.edu

x

x

 

x

Java-based, extensible, plug and play environment

SNOB

http://snob.eggbird.eu

x

 

 

x

Multi-lingual interface, users can edit and add descriptions

SnoFlake

http://snomed.dataline.co.uk         

 

x

x

x

 

Users must work in a healthcare organization that has a SNOMED CT license

University of Sydney

http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~hitru/sct/A1.cgi

x

x

x

 

 

Virginia Tech Browser

http://terminology.vetmed.vt.edu/SCT/menu.cfm

x

 

x

 

Browses current SNOMED CT release (typically updates data within a few days of the release)

Visual Read

http://www.visualread.com

 

 

 

x

 

*Rogers J, Bodenreider O.  SNOMED CT:  browsing the browsers.  Paper accepted for presentation at: KR-MED 2008.  Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED; 2008 May 31-Jun 2;  Phoenix, Arizona.  Available from: http://mor.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/pdf/2008-krmed-jr.pdf. 

Cited with permission of authors. 

Last reviewed: 24 September 2009
Last updated: 24 September 2009
First published: 15 May 2008
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