No, Denmark uses the nordic international SKS system, which includes ICD-10 and other taxonomy systems, and some extensions.
The problems, that you describe, are partially handled by standardization of data capture, like making all departments of type XYZ register in the same way. If you have a neurology department, they register CNS things in many more details than an abdominal department. But this is not a problem, that's how information transfer works. An ICU doctor doesn't care about what kind of salmonella it is, he just wants to know how to kill it - so the level of details on such a registration depends on how much the microbiologists were involved in the patient.
If you would regard this as a problem, then SNOMED-CT would be a huge problem. However, it isn't. SNOMED-CT provides a very fine grained coding of information, and if used the right way, the doctor's work gets much easier and statistics improve significantly.
All you need is a vertical, instead of all the horizontals in the health care IT sector. |
