LONDON, UK & WISCONSIN, US – March 12, 2026 – SNOMED International and NANDA International, Inc. (NANDA-I) are pleased to announce a five-year collaboration agreement aimed at supporting the adoption of working practices that facilitate the use and interoperability of terminology standards produced by SNOMED International and NANDA International. Both organizations share the goal of developing and provisioning standards for the exchange of interoperable clinical and related health information.
NANDA-I is a member-driven, not-for-profit organization that produces NANDA® 360, an integrated classification with a unified taxonomy that supports the formulation, validation and clarification of clinical reasoning. NANDA 360 is an assessment-driven, diagnosis-centered set of classifications that incorporates the entire nursing process (nursing diagnosis – patient goals and outcomes – nursing actions).
SNOMED International is a Member-driven, not-for-profit organization that owns, develops and maintains SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. The organization works globally to enable consistent, high-quality health information exchange, improve clinical decision-making, and accelerate digital health transformation.
The goal of the collaboration is to ensure that stakeholders globally have clear direction on the use of the standards, whether together or individually, and that an effective interoperability solution is available to users when both standards are implemented in the same system. The work will focus on supporting use internationally.
Both organizations will work together to improve health and nursing care through standardized terminology; support enhanced clinical system functionality and interoperability by establishing relationships between SNOMED CT and NANDA 360; provide effective support for providers and users who implement different combinations of SNOMED CT and NANDA 360 in health information systems; support providers who implement either SNOMED CT or NANDA 360 in health information systems; and support the endorsement of NANDA 360 and SNOMED CT for uptake and use.
NANDA-I CEO T. Heather Herdman strongly supported the commitment to this partnership, noting: “Improving patient outcomes requires making nursing care visible within health data. NANDA 360 provides a framework that enables the validation of nursing diagnoses and its linkages to patient goals and outcomes, and evidence-based nursing actions. Renewing and expanding our partnership with SNOMED CT enables nursing’s impact on patient outcomes to be measured and demonstrated globally, using our most up-to-date classifications.”
SNOMED International is committed to supporting the global nursing agenda, and particularly the emerging theme from the “State of the World Nursing Report 2025” published by the WHO and ICN, which highlighted the need to harness the potential of digital tools and technologies to meet population and health system needs. Nurses need to be prepared and fully supported to competently utilize digital technologies across areas of professional practice from education to practice, research and management. The use of digital tools will support nursing practice, and importantly will lead to an improvement in patient care.
SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete says the collaboration strengthens the visibility of nursing within the global health data landscape. “By aligning nursing diagnoses and patient goals and outcomes with SNOMED CT, we are enabling nursing practice to be captured in a consistent, computable way,” he says. “This partnership helps ensure that the contribution of nurses is accurately represented in digital health systems worldwide — advancing interoperability and elevating the role of nursing in improving patient outcomes.”
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