The Ontology Service provides project teams and collaborations with a web-based search engine covering a range of controlled vocabularies and ontologies, enabling simple, efficient searching across all sources and terminologies, or filtering for a single ontology.
Stratified Medicine Scotland also provides an API that can be used directly during extract, transform, load (ETL) workflows and application look-ups.
Many of the ontologies are updated weekly, while older versions as also supported.
The service supports cross-referencing and cross-walking, enabling users to navigate hierarchies within multiple terminologies, and cross-walk mappings between ontologies to reconcile and harmonise data from many sources, while retaining the meaning of the original mapping.
Users can build custom lists and export these as Excel spreadsheets for use with other applications.
Web-based and API access
Rapid search across all sources
Regularly updated, online reference site
Support for SNOMED-CT, HPO, ICD etc.
Usable within ETL flows, application drop-downs, R and SQL
Reduces the time and cost required to maintain standard vocabularies
Improves interoperability, standardisation and sharing
Ensures traceability in data transformation
Supports cross-reference and cross-walking
Enables custom lists to be created from multiple searches
Delivers direct export to Excel
This service is available as an extension to your existing Collaborative Workspace. Get in touch to discuss your project requirements and request a demo.
Web-based and API level access
Regularly updated reference website provides lookups to controlled vocabularies
Support for multiple vocabularies and ontologies
Encoding agnostic – support for SNOMED-CT, HPO, ICD etc.
Use within ETL flows, application drop downs, python, R, SQL
Fast search across all terminologies and ontology sources
Filter for a single ontology (including specific legacy versions)
Standalone service or available as part of the Healthcare Landing Zone
Monthly packages