Free Online SNOMED Browser Introduces New UK Extensions

Brighton, United Kingdom, February 11, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Dataline Software - an award winning manufacturer of healthcare software - is today launching the UK Edition of its free online SNOMED Browser at www.snoflake.co.uk.

Since its launch in 2006, the website has included international data - but in a continued mission to raise awareness of the benefits that SNOMED can bring to UK healthcare systems, Dataline has now added the 63,214 additional concepts specific to the United Kingdom.

Adrian Bleach, Managing Director of Dataline sees this improvement as a "must-have" for the site, saying "In order for the site to be truly useful to the UK health sector, support for the UK Extensions is essential."

As well as introducing the UK Extensions, the website has also been enhanced to include:

1. The ability to search using the beginning of words rather than whole words only
2. A quicker weighting algorithm that sorts results by relevance
3. Subsets, which reduce the SNOMED dataset to specific clinical subsets
4. SnAPI: Dataline’s interface for integrating SNOMED into existing healthcare applications

As well as keeping up-to-date with the latest versions of SNOMED datasets from the IHTSDO, Dataline continues to add new features to its portfolio of SNOMED products. In the coming year, Dataline will be launching another new version of the SNOMED Browser with support for cross-maps, which enable mapping between ICD-9, ICD-10, ICD-0 and OPCS code sets. Ancestor matching and subsumption testing will also be included in this release.

As awareness of SNOMED increases globally, so too does the popularity of the site. Try the online version for yourself by visiting www.snoflake.co.uk, or alternatively download Snomobile - the mobile SNOMED solution for the iPhone (http://www.itunes.com/apps/snomobile).

About Dataline Software (www.dataline.co.uk)

Dataline Software delivers bespoke software to businesses of all sizes and has a twenty-five year track record of delivering projects on time and to budget. It's portfolio of products includes i5®, a unique tool for publishing SQL databases on the web. Dataline is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Cisco Registered Partner.

Technical expertise in web applications and e-business development, networks, SQL Databases, Windows and mobile computing together with many years experience in project management enables us to offer quality consultancy to the client-server and internet marketplace. We are able to offer assistance and advice at every level of project development including choice of hardware, network topology, database installation and configuration, system specification, database design and project resourcing as well as support, training and development.

About IHTSDO and SNOMED CT (www.ihtsdo.org)

The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation is an international not-for-profit organization based in Denmark. IHTSDO acquires, owns and administers the rights to SNOMED CT and other health terminologies and related standards.

The purpose of IHTSDO is to develop, maintain, promote and enable the uptake and correct use of its terminology products in health systems, services and products around the world, and undertake any or all activities incidental and conducive to achieving the purpose of the Association for the benefits of the members.

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