CIEL
The Columbia International eHealth Laboratory (CIEL) dictionary is a shared open concept dictionary that provides comprehensive terminology services to OpenMRS and other health information systems. Based at Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics, CIEL contains over 55,000 medical concepts mapped to standardized code systems including ICD, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, and many others. CIEL supports open source health initiatives globally and has been recognized as both a Digital Public Good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance and a Content Public Good by Digital Square.
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