The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) is an international non-profit standards development organisation. Its mission is to develop, maintain, promote and deliver medical terminology products in order to improve the health in a global scale through the development and application of appropriately standardized clinical terminologies in general. In particular, the IHTSDO promotes SNOMED CT to ensure safe, precise and effective exchange of clinical and health related information. By pooling human and financial resources synergies are used in order to ensure a sustainable, high-quality terminology development. The resulting terminology products help accomplish the vision of a comprehensive, accurate, semantically interoperable and machine processable computer-based health record.
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