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Clinical Transitions
Hip Replacement and Discharge to Home Care Scenario
This health journey
illustrates the use
of GPS concepts in
the planning and
provisioning of a
patient’s care as they
transition from an
organization with a
SNOMED International
license and one that
does not.
Paulo, a 72 year old man living
in a SNOMED International nonMember country, has multiple
health conditions, including type
2 diabetes. Paulo’s main health
complaint is hip pain due to
osteoarthritis.
Throughout his journey, the GPS
is used to support Paulo’s referral
to hospital and the sharing of
diagnostic results back to his
general practitioner (GP.) The
hospital system Paulo receives his
hip replacement surgery from is
a SNOMED CT affiliate licensee
and the GPS allows Paulo’s GP
to review the SNOMED CT
concept identifiers embedded in
his electronic hospital discharge
summary and associated care
plan.
Read Paulo’s full scenario at:
Enhancing Care through Digital Health Capability
Breast Cancer Treatment in a Low-or Middle-Income Country (LMIC)
Rather, the GPS has provided an
opportunity for a LMIC to start
the process of understanding the
use and benefits of standardizing
clinical language.
This is the journey of ‘Malillo, a
woman living in the African nation
of Lesotho who, at the age of 34,
has been diagnosed with intraductal breast cancer. Advanced
cancer diagnostics and treatment
are unavailable in Lesotho, and
are provided by transporting
patients to neighbouring South
Africa.
Throughout this journey, the GPS
is used to provide a standardized
language to record care. Using
This journey shows GPS concept
the GPS encourages clinicians
use in the diagnosis and treatment involved in ‘Malillo’s care to use
of breast cancer in maturing
the same words for the same
digital health systems in a LMIC
diagnoses, treatments and results
where no facilities are SNOMED
across her local clinic, district
CT enabled.
hospital and academic hospital
This journey shows GPS
concept use in the diagnosis
and treatment of breast cancer
in maturing digital health
systems in a LMIC where no
facilities are SNOMED CT
enabled. Rather, the GPS has
provided an opportunity for
a LMIC to start the process
of understanding the use and
benefits of standardizing
clinical language.
located in South Africa. The
academic hospital’s electronic
record system uses GPS concepts
which are unique; eliminating
duplication across units,
supporting accurate retrieval and
allowing consistent meaning over
time. ‘Malillo’s summary of care
records containing the GPS are
shared with her district hospital
once her treatment has concluded
and she is discharged.Read
‘Malillo’s full scenario at
Global Interoperability
with GPS
This scenario
presents the example
of an international
humanitarian organization
that delivers impartial
medical care to people
affected by conflict,
epidemics, disasters, or
exclusion from health care
and their use of the GPS.
As health crises take place
in SNOMED International
non-Member countries, the
International Patient Summary
(IPS), part of the scope of the
GPS, can support summary
patient information gathering.
In such situations, up to date
patient information recording
will not be undertaken and
therefore, gathering of
information on a summary
level is more likely. When
undergoing initial triage in
emergency situations, patient
summary records coded
with SNOMED CT concepts
included in the GPS, can then
be provided to relevant local
care providers, agencies etc.
Read the full Global
Interoperability scenario at:
Technical & Other Contexts for GPS Use
The license being used for the GPS
allows for the use of its content in other
artefacts from source code to specification
development and research & development
to informational website use.
the whole GPS, may also be freely used with
proper attribution.
For informational websites (E.g. Wikipedia),
content from GPS can be used freely
without any permission provided attribution
is given.
Specifications and other standards can
include GPS content free for use in
Read more about the technical and other
documentation, source code and interface
contexts for GPS use at:
specifications provided necessary attribution
is documented.
The same applies to research and
development. When working on research
and development activities, including
research papers, content from the GPS, or