[1] it was developed by a component of the u.s The centers for medicare and medicaid services, the agency responsible for maintaining the inpatient procedure code set in the u.s., contracted with 3m health information systems in 1995 to design and then develop a procedure. The system was created in the early 1970s by robert barclay fetter and john d Thompson at yale university with the material support of the former health care financing administration (hcfa), now called the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) [2][10] drgs were first implemented in new jersey, beginning in 1980 at the initiative of nj health commissioner joanne finley [7] Snomed ct is currently available in american english, british english, spanish, danish and swedish, with other translations underway or nearly completed in french and dutch
Snomed ct cross maps to other terminologies, such as It supports ansi, dicom, hl7, and iso standards. Archived from the original on october 13, 2012 Department of health and human services Archived from the original on august 5, 2012
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