SNOMED In 5 Minutes

This is an easy-to-use tutorial for accessing SNOMED APIs within 5 min.

Table of Contents

1. Project Structure
2. Examples
3. Resources
4. Contributing
5. License

Project Structure

• top-level: aggregator for sub-modules (alphabetically):

  • csharp-examples: examples with csharp (.net)
  • curl-examples: examples with curl
  • java-examples: examples with java
  • python3-examples: examples with python
  • javascript-examples: examples with javascript
  • model: JAXB-enabled classes for representing the RF2 domain model
  • rest-client: a Java client for the REST services

Examples

The following examples will be used to demonstrate accessing the SNOMED API through Javascript, Curl, and Java (using Jersey).

• Find a concept by a string (e.g. "heart attack")
• Find/get a concept by a description SCTID (e.g. "679406011")
• Find/get a concept by a concept SCTID (e.g. "109152007")
• Find a concept by a string (e.g. "heart") but only in the Procedures semantic tag

All of the examples use a hard coded URL, edition name, and version number which point to a server hosted by SNOMED International (www.snomed.org). These are the APIs that back to the SNOMED CT browser (http://browser.ihtsdotools.org)

• baseUrl = http://browser.ihtsdotools.org/api/snomed/
• edition = en-edition
• version = 20180131

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C# (.net)

• Click for CSharp examples.

Java

• Click for Java examples.

Javascript

• Click for JavaScript examples.

Curl

• Click for Curl examples.

Python

• Click for Python examples.

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Further Documentation

Find comprehensive documentation here: TBD

Resources

• SNOMED CT browser
• SNOMED CT Snapshot REST API
  (REST documentation)

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Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request

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Current Contributors

• Brian Carlsen
• Alejandro Lopez Osornio
• Jesse Efron
• Philip Wilford
• Omid Mavadati
• Other Contributors

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License

See the included LICENSE.txt file.

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