<unk>  or<unk> inical Terms is a systematically organized computer-processable collection of medical terms providing codes, terms, synonyms and definitions used in clinical documentation and reporting.<unk>  is considered to be the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. The primary purpose of<unk>  is to encode the meanings that are used in health information and to support the effective clinical recording of data with the aim of improving patient care.<unk>  provides the core general terminology for electronic health records.<unk>  comprehensive coverage includes: clinical findings, symptoms, diagnoses, procedures, body structures, organisms and other etiologies, substances, pharmaceuticals, devices and specimens.<unk>  is maintained and distributed by<unk>  International, an international non-profit standards development organization, located in London, UK.<unk>  International is the trading name of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), established in 2007.<unk>  provides for consistent information interchange and is fundamental to an interoperable electronic health record. It provides a consistent means to index, store, retrieve, and aggregate clinical data across specialties and sites of care. It also helps in organizing the content of electronic health records systems by reducing the variability in the way data are captured, encoded and used for clinical care of patients and research.<unk>  can be used to directly record clinical details of individuals in electronic patient records. It also provides the user with a number of linkages to clinical care pathways, shared care plans and other knowledge resources, in order to facilitate informed decision-making, and to support long-term patient care. The availability of free automatic coding tools and services, which can return a ranked list of<unk>  descriptors to encode any clinical report, could help healthcare professionals to navigate the terminology.<unk>  is a terminology that can cross-map to other international standards and classifications. Specific language editions are available which augment the international edition and can contain language translations, as well as additional national terms. For example,<unk> -AU, released in December 2009 in Australia, is based on the international version of<unk> , but encompasses words and ideas that are clinically and technically unique to Australia.
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