Our partners
SNOMED International has an active program of partnering with international standards development organizations, professional clinical bodies and commercial organizations. The goal is to facilitate the use of SNOMED CT with other international standards and profiles.
The SNOMED CT Included badge represents content fully integrated as part of SNOMED CT.
While partners retain ownership of their content, SNOMED International manages, produces, releases and distributes it as part of SNOMED CT.
The focus of partnerships is to enhance consistency in meaningful data capture and information exchange and to improve safety, while enhancing functionality and enabling interoperability for the growing number of healthcare professions that use and exchange electronic health records using SNOMED CT and related products.
Some of the resulting products include mappings, SNOMED CT subsets and guidance on the use of SNOMED CT alongside, and integrated with, other standards.
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SNOMED International, as part of its commitment to developing its approach to Genomics, has become a member of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. As a member, SNOMED International contribute to work to identify content requirements, and to provide support for the interoperability challenges faced by the global genomics community.
Clinical Partner
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
In 2022, SNOMED International and the International Diet Dysphagia Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) signed an agreement to incorporate IDDSI Framework v2.0 content into SNOMED CT to enable use in electronic health records globally.
The agreement has been driven by community requests as well as by the need identified by the SNOMED International Nutrition Care Process Terminology (NCPT) Clinical Project Group to include IDDSI Framework v2.0 content in order to facilitate the inclusion of NCPT in SNOMED CT.
Clinical Partner
International Diet Dysphagia Standardisation Initiative
Effective as of October 1, 2021 for a five-year term, the collaboration struck with the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) emerged from the need identified by the SNOMED International Dentistry Clinical Reference Group (CRG) to update and augment the periodontal content in SNOMED CT.
To ensure periodontal content within SNOMED CT is in line with current practice, the Dentistry CRG advised incorporation of content from the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions, jointly published by the AAP and the EFP.
Clinical Partner
American Academy of Periodontology & European Federation of Periodontology
The American Dental Association (ADA) is not-for-profit and the largest professional association for dentistry in the United States, representing more than 157,000 dentist members. It is the premier source of oral health information in the United States, if not the entire world, and has advocated for the public’s health as well as promoted the art and science of dentistry since 1859. It has developed and continues to develop the SNODENT dental diagnostic code set.
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Clinical Partner
American Dental Association
In 2022, SNOMED International and the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) signed a five-year agreement to contribute global improvements in care and services for people with epilepsy, a group of disorders characterized by recurrent seizures.
The ILAE Commission for Big Data and SNOMED International have established an Epilepsy Clinical Project Group. Members of this group will work together to define processes to maintain and update epilepsy content within the international edition of SNOMED CT’s clinical terminology, the world’s most comprehensive healthcare terminology product.
Clinical Partner
International League Against Epilepsy
Clinical partnerships
Commercial
Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health was formed to help accelerate the potential of genomic medicine to advance human health. It brings together over 400 leading institutions working in healthcare, research, disease advocacy, life science, and information technology. The partners in the Global Alliance are working together to create a common framework of harmonized approaches to enable the responsible, voluntary, and secure sharing of genomic and clinical data.
The work of the Global Alliance is critical to realizing the potential of recent technological advances that make possible the large-scale collection of data on genome sequencing and clinical outcomes. To seize this extraordinary opportunity, it is often necessary to ask questions that span individual datasets. The Global Alliance is working to alter the current reality where data are kept and studied in silos, and tools and methods are non-standardized and incompatible.
Engaging collaboratively with its stakeholders, the Global Alliance works to establish, broadly disseminate, and advocate for the use of interoperable technical standards for managing and sharing genomic and clinical data.
International Diet Dysphagia Standardisation Initiative
Content has been created for each framework level, consistent with the IDDSI standard terminology and definitions subject to SNOMED CT editorial guidance, while additional content is being added to facilitate recording the use of the framework and diet scale together with related findings and interventions. As of January 2023, the content is included in the SNOMED CT International Edition.
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American Academy of Periodontology & European Federation of Periodontology
About the AAP
The American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) represents nearly 8,000 periodontists—specialists in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of inflammatory diseases affecting the gums and supporting structures of the teeth, and in the placement of dental implants. Periodontics is one of twelve dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association.
About the EFP
The European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting awareness of periodontal science and the importance of gum health. Its guiding vision is “Periodontal health for a better life.”
Founded in 1991, the EFP is a federation of 37 national periodontal societies that represents more than 16,000 periodontists, dentists, researchers and oral-health professionals from Europe and around the world. It pursues evidence-based science in periodontal and oral health, promoting events and campaigns aimed at both professionals and the public.
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American Dental Association
In 2012, ADA and IHTSDO signed a Cooperation Agreement which focused on aligning the content of SNODENT and SNOMED CT, where appropriate, and also saw the instigation of the IHTSDO International Dentistry Special Interest Group (SIG), now called the Dentistry Clinical Reference Group.
This Cooperation Agreement was updated to a Collaboration Agreement in April 2016 focusing on agreed joint work, including:
Development of a SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Subset
Release and maintenance of this SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Subset
Ongoing provision of Subject Matter Experts by ADA
Support for maintenance and updating of the linkage between SNOMED CT and SNODENT at respective releases
The SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Refset is now released and updated annually in line with the July release of SNOMED CT. It is worth noting that the Dentistry Clinical Reference Group has also produced an Odontogram refset which is also available through SNOMED International and aligns with SNODENT where appropriate.
These refsets have been included in the scope of SNOMED International's Global Patient Set.
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International League Against Epilepsy
Over 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy, making it one of the most common neurological diseases globally. Although about two-thirds of people with epilepsy could be seizure free with medication treatment, gaps in diagnosis and treatment mean that millions of people continue to have seizures, which affect their health, relationships, education, and employment opportunities.
The SNOMED CT International Edition has included epilepsy content for many years; now, users will benefit from input from global experts in a systematic way to ensure that the content is up to date and out of date epilepsy terminology is retired.
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Standards partnerships
GS1
In April 2016, IHTSDO and GS1 signed a Collaboration Agreement focusing on specific areas of joint work, building on a previous Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) established to facilitate liaison between the two organizations and committing to closer working to ensure compatibility between our respective standards where appropriate.
The agreement will be reviewed and evaluated to explore how the two organizations may continue to collaborate in 2023.
DICOM
In March 2016, SNOMED International and the DICOM Standards Committee signed a SNOMED CT Licensing Agreement. This was the first agreement between the two organizations, clarifying the use of SNOMED CT in DICOM standards and how the SNOMED CT content should be managed over time. The SNOMED CT Licensing Agreement is for 5 years.
In 2021, SNOMED International and DICOM formally extended their longstanding agreement to publish a SNOMED CT Freeset of coded concepts in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard.
IHE International
In April 2019, IHE International and SNOMED International formally announced a license agreement encouraging data consistency and interoperability across international boundaries, with benefits for clinical care, research and operational efficiency.
LOINC®
In 2013, IHTSDO and Regenstrief Institute Inc. signed a long-term agreement to begin cooperative work linking their leading global health care terminologies: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, or LOINC®, and SNOMED CT.
In October 2022, the two organizations signed a new collaboration agreement facilitating the adoption of standardized terminology to support broadened interoperability of health data exchange around the globe with the goal of enhancing and improving the delivery of healthcare. The agreement also paved the way forward for coordinated use of SNOMED CT and LOINC® by both SNOMED International and Regenstrief, with each retaining editorial control of its respective standard.
In October 2023, and under the scope of the 2022 agreement, LOINC® from Regenstrief and SNOMED International commenced
generation of The LOINC Ontology: A LOINC and SNOMED CT interoperability solution.
HL7 International
In July 2019, Health Level Seven® Inc. and SNOMED International announced another 2 year collaboration agreement, building on previous agreements in 2009, 2014 and 2016. The agreement again is aimed at improving interoperability, thus focusing on the adoption of working practices that facilitate the use of SNOMED CT with HL7 standards globally. As previously, both organisations are working towards avoiding duplication of effort and resolving issues related to gaps and overlaps.
The agreement recently renewed in 2021, target activities have been planned up to July 2023, at which point a review of delivered work products and upcoming activities will be undertaken.
Joint Initiative Council
The Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization (JIC) was formed to further the important role of health informatics standards to:
Enable interoperability of information and processes across health domains;
Support the timely, efficient delivery of safe, coordinated, accountable, high-quality health services to individuals, communities and populations; and,
Facilitate effective global markets for health information systems.
Visit http://www.jointinitiativecouncil.org/ for a list of participating Members.
World Health Organization
SNOMED International and WHO have experienced a formal collaborative relationship since 2010 when they first entered into a ground-breaking collaborative arrangement that would change the relationship between the two organizations and their respective standards, by enabling users of SNOMED CT to use WHO classifications jointly and interoperably.
International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use
In 2021, SNOMED International and the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH) announced the release of important new maps between global medical terminologies SNOMED CT and MedDRA. This collaborative effort was the first deliverable of a new agreement entered into between SNOMED International and ICH.
Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency
In 2012, SNOMED International and Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency (GMDNA), the organization responsible for the international Global Medical Device Nomenclature© (GMDN), signed a 5 year Cooperation Agreement. A key focus of the Agreement was to exchange, harmonize and incorporate medical device term descriptions from each other to enhance the end-to-end patient risk and safety use cases in healthcare systems incorporating medical device information.
Education partnerships
Digital China Health
In 2019, Digital China Health and SNOMED International struck an agreement to deliver mutually agreed upon SNOMED CT educational content including the organization’s clinically and technically curated Foundation and Implementation courses, with the potential to also offer the organizations suite of Authoring courses for delivery. As part of this agreement, Digital China Health will serve as an extension of the SNOMED International Education Program within China and be empowered to issue course completion certificates and certifications as applicable.
University of Eastern Finland
In 2020, the University of Eastern Finland and SNOMED International struck an agreement to deliver mutually agreed upon SNOMED CT educational content including the organization's professionally curated Foundation course, with the potential to also offer the Implementation Course and suite of Authoring courses. As a result of this agreement, the University of Eastern Finland will serve as an extension of the SNOMED International Education Program within parts of Finland and be empowered to issue course completion certificates and certifications as applicable.
Research partnerships
Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics
In June 2022, the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) community and SNOMED International formalized their long-time relationship with a five-year collaborative agreement that will benefit both of their user communities.
The collaboration provides OHDSI and its user community with comprehensive ontologies on specific healthcare domains and content such as devices, social determinants of health, disease severity scores and modifiers of cancers, as well as better concept definitions and resolutions of composite concepts in large-scale observational research.
Human Phenotype Ontology
In 2022, the Monarch Initiative signed a five-year collaboration agreement with SNOMED International to develop maps from the clinical terminology SNOMED CT to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO), a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities encountered in human disease, and to HPO from SNOMED CT.
