SNOMED CT® Browsers

SNOMED CT Browser

This is SNOMED International's (IHTSDO) online, multilingual SNOMED CT Browser. As well as the International and Spanish editions, the browser hosts SNOMED CT extensions from Member countries, including the United States.

SNOMED CT BROWSER

Registration Requirements: This is a free browser, whose source code is available under an open source Apache v2 license.
Additional Notes: Web-based, multilingual, open source SNOMED CT browser.
Point of Contact: Email: browser@ihtsdo.org

Other Browsers

The SNOMED CT terminology browsers listed on this page have been discussed in IHTSDO forums, cited in the paper below*, or submitted by UMLS users. This list is solely provided as an added resource and is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all SNOMED CT browsers.

To have a browser added to this list, send a message to NLM Customer Support with the subject “SNOMED CT Browser.” Please ensure that your browser complies with the IHTSDO Conditions of Use of SNOMED CT Browsers before submitting it for inclusion in this list. This guidance is essential reading for any person or organization providing a web-based or other publicly available SNOMED CT browser, or a service that provides access to SNOMED CT. It is also relevant to users of such services.

Disclaimer: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) does not endorse in any way the browsers described in the following tables. NLM does not make any warranty, expressed or implied, or assume any liability or responsibility for the use of these browsers.

Additional Browsers

Browser	Description
B2i Meaningful Query	Search and browse the US, UK, and International Editions of SNOMED CT with subsets from SNOMED International, Kaiser Permanente and the United Kingdom Terminology Centre. Create your own queries and subsets and use them to group patients that share the same characteristics into cohorts, identify trends and correlations, and create analytics notebooks to test and visualize clinical hypotheses. URL: https://mq.b2i.sg Registration Requirements: No registration required for browsing. Optional use of a free UMLS Terminology Services account allows saving and downloading terminology queries and subsets, patient cohorts, and analytics notebooks. Additional Notes: Web-based browser that is part of a large commercially available application. Point of Contact: Contact support at support@b2i.sg. General inquiries can be sent to info@b2i.sg.
HealthTerm	HealthTerm® is a high-performing global Enterprise Terminology System that enables data exchange and semantic interoperability in the healthcare sector. HealthTerm® is used within some of the world’s largest and most complex enterprise terminology projects within EHR/HIE implementations such as Orion Health and IBM Watson Health. URL: https://www.carecom.com/products/ Registration Requirements: Registration is required. Additional Notes: Web-based browser. Point of Contact: Christopher Trunk Black, Head of Global Communications and Marketing, ctb@carecom.com
ITServer (Integrated Terminology Server)	No longer available
NCI Term Browser	Provides reference terminology for many NCI and other systems. It covers vocabulary for clinical care, translational and basic research, and public information and administrative activities. URL: https://nciterms.nci.nih.gov/ Registration Requirements: This is a free browser. Additional Notes: Web-based browser. Point of Contact: Inquiries can be sent to ncithesaurus@mail.nih.gov
Protégé	Open-source platform that provides a suite of tools to construct domain models and knowledge-based applications with ontologies. URL: http://protege.stanford.edu/ Registration Requirements: Free after registration. Additional Notes: Java-based browser; extensible; plug and play environment; can be used via the web or installed locally. Point of Contact: Inquiries can be sent to the protege-user mailing list http://protege.stanford.edu/support.php
Snoflake	No longer available
Snow Owl	Snow Owl® is a collaborative terminology browsing and authoring platform built on the open-source IHTSDO Terminology Server. It maintains terminology artifacts developed by a team and supported by business workflows. Snow Owl supports authoring national and local SNOMED CT extensions and creating subsets and mappings to local code systems, LOINC, ATC, ICD-10, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-AM, and more. URL: https://b2ihealthcare.com/ Registration Requirements: Free after registration. Additional Notes: Easy to learn through video tutorials, a Getting Started Guide and extensive documentation. Point of Contact: Contact support at support@b2i.sg. General inquiries can be sent to info@b2i.sg
The Taxonator	The Taxonator is a personal project of informaticist Erik Lickerman M.D. It is a web application for searching and browsing standard terminology systems such as SNOMED CT. It has a simple intuitive interface that also enables you to create, analyse and maintain value sets. Multiple download formats are available including CSV and JSON FHIR. URL: https://terminology.eriklickerman.com/ Registration Requirements: Acceptance of license agreement. Additional Notes: Taxonator is only available to US users. Point of Contact: Erik Lickerman M.D., Email: info@eriklickerman.com
VTSL Browser	Browser is designed to search and browse SNOMED CT International release as extended by VTSL to include the Veterinary Extension which now holds all non-human, veterinary content. URL: https://vtsl.vetmed.vt.edu/ Registration Requirements: This is a free browser. Additional Notes: Web-based browser. Point of Contact: Inquiries may be sent to vtsl.info@gmail.com
Visual Read	Visual Read provides a range of SNOMED CT browsers, including a powerful automatic coding tool of free text that returns SNOMED CT codes (AutoCoder), a SNOMED CT text browser (Text Code Browser), and an anatomy browser containing over 100 anatomical images which have been arranged to allow for rapid navigation to both external and internal areas of the human body (Graphical Code Browser). Visual Read also supports a wide variety of other medical coding schemes including Read Codes versions 2 and 3, OPCS-4 and ICD-10. URL: http://www.visualread.com/ Registration Requirements: Purchase may be required Additional Notes: Browsers can be embedded within host systems or can run in standalone mode. Point of Contact: Telephone: +44-116-254-4645, Email: sales@visualread.com
West Coast Informatics Browser	Search and browse the US Edition of SNOMED CT with West Coast Informatics' SNOMED terminology browser. Web-based, lightweight, open source, and mobile friendly. This browser's features include textual searching, hierarchical searching, expandable concept report, access to metadata, discovery of extension content within full hierarchy. URL: https://snomed.terminology.tools Registration Requirements: Acceptance of license agreement. Additional Notes: Updated with each release of SNOMED US Edition; can be used via the web or installed locally. Point of Contact: Email: West Coast Informatics, LLC., Telephone: 510-854-6401, www.westcoastinformatics.com

*Rogers J, Bodenreider O. SNOMED CT: browsing the browsers. Paper accepted for presentation at: KR-MED 2008. Representing and sharing knowledge using SNOMED; 2008 May 31-Jun 2; Phoenix, Arizona. Available from: //mor.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/pdf/2008-krmed-jr.pdf.

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Last Reviewed: January 27, 2017

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