Show HN: `sct` – a SNOMED-CT medical terminology toolkit in Rust

Category: cli-tool

Tags: medical-terminology, rust, clinical-data

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

sct is a blazingly fast, local-first SNOMED-CT medical terminology toolkit written in Rust. It processes raw RF2 files into a canonical NDJSON format, then enables offline querying via SQLite, Parquet, semantic search, and MCP/LLM tools, outperforming incumbent systems like Snowstorm by up to 100x while eliminating network dependencies.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, healthcare it professionals

Repository: https://github.com/pacharanero/sct · Rust · AGPL-3.0 · 14 stars

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