A gentle reminder that Dr. Hyeoun-Ae Park will be presenting Mapping Korean Classification of Diseases and Medical Procedure Codes to SNOMED CT on August 20, 2020 at 1 UTC / 9 ET.

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Dr. Hyeoun-Ae Park will be presenting Mapping Korean Classification of Diseases and Medical Procedure Codes to SNOMED CT on August 20, 2020 at 1 UTC.

The Korean government is undertaking various Health IT initiatives such Health Information Exchange, EMR certification and Data-centered Hospitals. Use of standardized terminologies and vocabularies are recommended for these initiatives. To promote the use of SNOMED CT as a reference terminology in the country, the Korean Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has developed maps of the Disease Classification and Medical Procedure Codes used for National Health Insurance claims to SNOMED CT. Dr. Park will briefly introduce Healthcare in Korea with the Health IT initiatives and present preliminary results of the SNOMED CT mapping project.

Hyeoun-Ae Park is the Emeritus Dean and a Professor at the College of Nursing and a Researcher at the Systems Biomedical Informatics Research Center, Seoul National University and previously served as President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). Dr. Park is a champion for use of standardized terminologies and vocabularies and detailed clinical models in electronic health records. Her recent work involves healthcare big data analytics investigating ways to predict the occurrence of patient safety problems such as fall, pressure ulcer, and adverse drug reactions.

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