Snow Owl
A production-ready, scalable, open-source terminology server supporting SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, ICD-10/11, and custom code systems with FHIR compliance.
What is Snow Owl?
Snow Owl is an open-source terminology server designed to store, search, and author high volumes of standardized medical terminology artifacts like SNOMED CT, LOINC, and ICD-10/11. It provides a scalable, revision-controlled platform with FHIR Terminology Service compliance, solving the problem of managing complex clinical code systems for healthcare interoperability.
Healthcare IT organizations, clinical terminology authors, EHR/EMR system developers, and health data interoperability teams who need to manage and integrate standardized medical terminologies.
Developers choose Snow Owl for its production-ready scalability, comprehensive FHIR compliance, robust revision-control for collaborative authoring, and extensible plugin architecture—all available as open-source with enterprise-grade features.
Overview
:owl: Snow Owl Terminology Server - a production-ready, fast, scalable, FHIR Terminology Service compliant server that supports SNOMED CT International and Extensions, LOINC, RxNorm, UMLS, ICD-10/11, custom code systems and many others
Use Cases
Best For
- Building FHIR-compliant terminology services for healthcare applications
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