It’s and awesome combination. Thats the feeling we have after completing the first round of integration between our GELLO interpreter and our SNOMED-CT server.
One simple Method “.implies” has some much power in a multiple inheritance hierarchy like SNOMED-CT.
For instance:
This is a Laparoscopic appendix in SNOMED-CT
let Chole:SD = Factory.SnomedUtterance(”602280XX|Cholecystectomy, exploration of duct and cholangiogram|”)
Now what can the computer tell about this surgery? Well quite a lot really!
It has a parent of Cholangiogram so you can ask if a cholangiogram was done like this:
let CholangiogramDone: Boolean = Chole.implies(Factory.SnomedUtterance(”283670XX|Cholangiogram|”))
Now was this an open procedure or a laparoscopic one?
let Laparoscopic: SD = Factory.SnomedUtterance(”736320XX|Laparoscopic Procedure|”)
let isLaparoscopic: Boolean = Chole.implies(Laparoscopic)
This sort if information gathering is very useful in clinical decision support and GELLO is the perfect language to write the logic in.
At last we have a path to computable medical records!