Call for GP clinical software to be accredited and mapped to SNOMED

Primary care researchers have recommended that the clinical software packages used in general practice be required to meet national accreditation standards and the terminologies used in the software be mapped to the SNOMED CT-AU.

The research team has also criticised what it says is a lack of basic standards in general practice electronic health records and that the value of data extracted from EHRs using tools such as the Pen CAT tool, the Canning tool and GRHANITE is limited by what is and what is not recorded in the record.