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Greater SE Family Practice is a large, nonprofit general practice that serves pediatric and adult patients in four states in the Southeast (GA, FL, SC, NC). The practice has facilities in all four states. The corporate population health specialist (CPHS) recently received a Public Health Alert Bulletin addressing an increase in the occurrence of infectious diseases, particularly in measles/mumps/rubella and Lyme disease. You have been tasked by the CPHS to abstract and analyze data on these infectious illnesses for the region managed by the practice. Based on the following guidelines, you will need to present the results to your Board of Medical Directors at the next monthly Zoom meeting. Clinical nomenclature systems benefit both clinicians and researchers by bringing structure to complicated and dynamic health data. It is important in health care to use a standardized clinical nomenclature when documenting a patient's symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments in order to best support tracking, trending, and reporting of health conditions and diagnoses. SNOMED is the most comprehensive and precise, multilingual clinical terminology system in the world. ICD-10-CM is a medical classification list that contains codes for diseases, signs and symptoms, abnormal findings, complaints, social circumstances, and external causes of injury or diseases.