The SNOMED International 2024 Annual Report is now available.
The document, which chronicles the organization’s key activities over the past year, wraps up the 2020-2025 strategy with a reflection on and an accounting of our goals for the five-year period and our successes meeting those objectives.
The report outlines a number of first-time endeavours for the organization in 2024 and the benefits realized from those activities, such as formally joining the Bahmni Coalition, hosting an Entity Linking Challenge and delivery of a one-day SNOMED CT in Europe conference.
A read through the 2024 report also reveals another increasingly important theme echoed over the past year – in particular, the need to better understand advanced technologies and how to harness them for the benefit of SNOMED CT users and implementers worldwide. As SNOMED International and its global community work to explore SNOMED CT as an input into Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models, it is clear the energy and enthusiasm fuelling these discussions is growing as implementers, clinicians, researchers and SNOMED CT users learn more about future possibilities.
The 2024 Annual Report also provides a snapshot of the 2025-2030 Strategy, which was developed in 2024 in conjunction with our governance bodies. The new strategy, which seeks to build on the work of the past five years, includes a Technology Roadmap to ensure that the organization prioritizes initiatives focused on making SNOMED CT easier to adopt and implement, and an expanded approach to User Acceptance Testing. At the same time, the strategy also calls for a Content Roadmap based on Member priorities and balanced with ongoing content work.
In addition to new and updated products and services, educational offerings, content changes and collaborations made over the year, the report provides insights into the many different ways the organization has engaged with its Members and other stakeholders.
Some of the features we’re most proud of in this year’s report are the Member-focused articles that highlight their activities and successes in implementing and adopting SNOMED CT, including New Zealand discussing its use of a “working bee” to advance the use of the terminology, the piece on global cancer reporting agencies that discusses multi-agency efforts to use SNOMED CT to improve cancer care, and the article detailing our work with LOINC by Regenstrief to develop the LOINC Extension.
“The 2024 annual report enables us to tell the story of our ecosystem of global stakeholders – their goals, and our work to better understand how we can support the drive for interoperability across the globe,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete.
We thank all our Members and the SNOMED International community for their commitment to enabling global interoperability and we look forward to sharing our 2025 activities next year.
Visit the Results section of the Strategy, Objectives and Results page to read the report.
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