SNOMED CT Record Artifact

A Record artifact is an entity that is created by a person or persons for the purpose of providing other people with information about events or states of affairs. In general, a record is virtual, that is, it is independent of its particular physical instantiation(s), and consists of its information elements (usually words, phrases and sentences, but also numbers, graphs, and other information elements). Record artifacts need not be complete reports or complete records. They can be parts of larger record artifacts. For example, a complete health record is a record artifact that also may contain other record artifacts in the form of individual documents or reports, which in turn may contain more finely granular record artifacts such as sections and even section headers.



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About SNOMED CT SNOMED CT Components Use of SNOMED CT SNOMED CT Hierarchies Clinical finding/disorder Procedure Observable entity Body Structure Organism Substance Pharmaceutical/biologic product Specimen Physical object Physical force Event Environments and geographic locations Social context Staging and scales Linkage concept Qualifier value Special concept Record Artifact Adoption of SNOMED CT Different Languages Outputs Release of SNOMED CT Licensing Namespaces History of SNOMED CT Request Submission Quality Assurance Tooling	SNOMED CT Record Artifact A Record artifact is an entity that is created by a person or persons for the purpose of providing other people with information about events or states of affairs. In general, a record is virtual, that is, it is independent of its particular physical instantiation(s), and consists of its information elements (usually words, phrases and sentences, but also numbers, graphs, and other information elements). Record artifacts need not be complete reports or complete records. They can be parts of larger record artifacts. For example, a complete health record is a record artifact that also may contain other record artifacts in the form of individual documents or reports, which in turn may contain more finely granular record artifacts such as sections and even section headers.