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SNOMED on FHIR Transmission of clinical data with the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources protocol (HL7-FHIR) utilizing Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT)

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Master's thesis Information- and communication technology IKT590 - University of Agder 2019 The exchange of information at the level of semantic interoperability needs some infor-mation model and clinical terminology work together. Electronic records of the patientmust include the terminologies in order to give the decision support to the practitionerwhen needed. Due to the lack of common standards for data structure and data sharingcreates the problem to interact and share information with different applications.Our main goal in this thesis is transferring the SNOMED-CT (Systematized Nomenclatureof Medicine Clinical Terms) terminologies using HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoper-ability Resources). Our first step is to setup the HAPI FHIR server in which we can storethe clinical information. The next step is to create a web-application which defines theHL7 FHIR profiles for our system. Then implement these profiles on the RESTful FHIRserver where all the clinical information is stored in the FHIR resources. The last stepis to make the front-end and back-end services to support the RESTful HAPI FHIR server.As proof, we have developed a web application that has capabilities to create the FHIRprofiles,transfer the SNOMED-CT terminologies and gives the ability to search the SNOMED-CT and FHIR resources.Keywords: SNOMED, HL7, FHIR, RESTful