Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Back Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Clinical Partner In 2021, SNOMED International announced a new collaboration agreement with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to include the Academy’s Nutrition Care Process Terminology (NCPT ) version 2020 in the International Edition of SNOMED CT. The NCPT supports the Academy’s Nutrition Care Process, which is a systematic approach to providing high-quality nutrition care that includes nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention and monitoring/evaluation. The Academy’s Nutrition Care Process Research Outcomes Committee developed and maintains the NCPT. Additional information The agreement formalizes the work SNOMED and the Academy have been doing since 2017 when representatives from the Academy and other nutrition and dietetics associations around the world requested the inclusion of the NCPT in the SNOMED CT International Edition. SNOMED and the Academy established the NCPT Clinical Project Group , a SNOMED International project group which includes representatives from both organizations along with international users to guide and facilitate the work. The five-year agreement governs the working relationship between the Academy and SNOMED International regarding the maintenance and updating of NCPT content in SNOMED CT. Related activities also include developing an approach to the method and content of attribution, developing and maintaining processes based on changes to SNOMED CT over time, and to managing additions and changes to the NCPT. Both organizations will work together to build awareness of the benefits of this initiative among dietetic and nutrition professionals and will consider future collaborative activities based on emerging global requirements. AND content is included in SNOMED CT as of January 2023 with plans to work towards producing a SNOMED CT refset. Press Release: July 2021: Collaboration agreement formalized with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for nutrition content in SNOMED CT Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

SNOMED CT Clinical Implementation Guide for Cancer Synoptic Reporting supports accurate documentation and improved information-sharing Back 9 Oct 2024 Back SNOMED International is pleased to announce the release of the SNOMED CT Clinical Implementation Guide for Cancer Synoptic Reporting , a comprehensive resource to facilitate standardized and structured reporting in cancer care. Designed to enable healthcare organizations to improve the quality of information captured, facilitate data exchange, support research initiatives, and enhance collaboration among healthcare providers, the guide provides clinicians with an overview of the content of SNOMED CT that supports cancer synoptic reporting and highlights the role of SNOMED CT in standardizing and enhancing cancer reporting practices. Guide scope and intended use The scope of the guide is specific to the creation of SNOMED CT concepts necessary to unambiguously represent the data elements required for cancer reporting for all adult and pediatric solid tumors as published by the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the International Collaboration on Cancer Reporting (ICCR). The content is specific to structure pathology reporting of malignant neoplasms as specified by the CAP and ICCR. It provides general use cases, including clinical application examples and scenarios; information models and terminology bindings; and considerations related to the technical application of cancer synoptic reporting forms with SNOMED CT. It also describes three approaches for cancer synoptic data recording – paper-based forms, distributed electronic forms and a centralized reporting platform. The International Collaboration of Cancer Reporting (ICCR), formed in 2011, has strong support from a number of major cancer organizations globally and has grown rapidly. Notably, its membership includes the Union for International Cancer Control and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. SNOMED CT is a comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology created for use by healthcare professionals to capture the care of individuals in an electronic health record and facilitate sharing, decision support and analytics, to support safe and effective health information exchange. SNOMED CT Clinical implementation guides are designed to assist both clinical and technical users in using SNOMED CT for specific clinical purposes. Synoptic reporting According to the American College of Surgeons , synoptic reports “present information as discrete data elements and associated responses. The synoptic report starts as a blank template, which is completed by the user. Each data element acts as a question that requires an answer selected from a list of predetermined responses. Once the template has been completed, each entry can be separately identified and extracted as a distinct unit of information.” Cancer synoptic worksheets, checklists and tissue pathways are the prevailing form of text-based structured cancer reports based on anatomic pathology (histopathology) and molecular (genomic and proteomic) pathology assessments. The Cancer Synoptic Reporting Clinical Implementation Guide follows the establishment of the Cancer Synoptic Reporting Project Group , which was formed in 2020 to develop comprehensive SNOMED CT concepts suitable for structured pathology reports. The group includes pathology experts who provide input from the community of practice on the development, maintenance and use of SNOMED CT in this specific domain. It is thanks to the hard work of this group that this Clinical Implementation Guide is now being published. They will update it over time based on feedback. Helping clinicians deliver better care SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete calls the guide’s release an important step in supporting clinicians who provide cancer care. And while ensuring that critical data elements are accurately documented and easily shared across different healthcare settings is one element of enabling better care, “standardized terminology and structured templates also help healthcare professionals streamline the documentation process, reduce variability in reporting practices, and promote adherence to evidence-based guidelines,” he notes. Technical considerations In addition to content relevant to clinicians, the guide also provides detailed descriptions for vendors and system developers wishing to implement the approach to cancer reporting within systems. Other features of the guide include: Examples of how synoptic reporting can benefit specific scenarios such as hematologic malignancy evaluations, cervical cancer screenings and neuro-oncology tumor resections, enabling synoptic reports to play a crucial role in guiding clinical decision-making and optimizing patient outcomes; A demonstration of how existing standards such as SNOMED CT and HL7 FHIR Questionnaires can be effectively employed to create implementable and shareable representations of synoptic reporting forms; and A roadmap for healthcare organizations looking to implement SNOMED CT in cancer synoptic reporting. SNOMED International is an international not-for-profit organization that develops and promotes the use of SNOMED CT, a comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology created for use by healthcare professionals to capture the care of individuals in an electronic health record and facilitate sharing, decision support and analytics, to support safe and effective health information exchange. The purpose of SNOMED International is to develop, maintain, promote, and enable the uptake and correct use of its terminology products in health systems, services and products around the world. Contact us at info@snomed.org for more information. Visit the Implementation Support Portal: https://www.implementation.snomed.org/ Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Registration open for the April 2025 Business Meetings Back 31 Jan 2025 Back SNOMED International is pleased to announce that registration is open for the April 2025 Business Meetings , including the SNOMED CT in Norway Day on April 10, 2025, hosted by the Norwegian Directorate of Health. Join the organization and your Community of Practice this April in Oslo, Norway (or online), as we work to enable the clear and meaningful exchange and analysis of health information for all. Please click here for more information about how to attend. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

SNOMED International Welcomes Cyprus to the Global SNOMED CT Community Back 6 Sept 2018 Back London, United Kingdom, Sept. 06, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Cyprus Ministry of Health and SNOMED International jointly announce the addition of Cyprus as the organization’s thirty-fourth Member. With a developing e-health program across the country’s hospital and health center landscape, Cyprus joins SNOMED International to bring structure and consistency in the sharing of health information for patient care, clinical decision support and research purposes. Within the European region, the promise of cross-border care mobility is believed to be the single most important revolution in healthcare. Preserving the sanctity of patient information through structured data becomes critical to this vision. SNOMED CT is the world’s most comprehensive and precise health terminology. Founded in 2007 by nine charter nations, SNOMED International is a not-for-profit, member-owned and driven international organization. “SNOMED CT is a core element in building a platform for accurate clinical information exchange and data analysis and SNOMED International applauds Cyprus’s commitment to this vision” states SNOMED International’s CEO, Don Sweete. “With the increasing need to support cross-border health, SNOMED CT is positioned as the best available core reference terminology for cross-border, national and regional eHealth deployments in Europe.” In recent years, Cyprus is dynamically entering the eHealth era. Codification is an essential part of this journey as health information should be captured, monitored, analyzed and disseminated among health professionals, health policy makers, and the public. Taking part in the European ‘eHealth Network’ project to establish cross border health care, of which the dominant terminology used is SNOMED CT, further supports the need for codification. Through this project, Cyprus has seen this as an opportunity to expand our codification horizons. For this reason, we joined SNOMED CT as a member country, in order to be able to promote health information coding, in a unifying way, among different local health software. The aim of which is to better guide our understanding and comparability of existing health information data. Vasos Scoutellas, Coordinator of the Health Monitoring Unit of the Ministry of Health recognizes the value of membership in SNOMED International for Cyprus. “At the Health Monitoring Unit of the Ministry of Health of Cyprus, myself, as the coordinator, and my colleagues, fully endorse the promotion, adoption and deployment of SNOMED CT in the health system of Cyprus. With its use, as a country, we will have a uniform way of documenting health issues. This will help us to have better and comparable statistics within the country.” Cyprus becomes the 21st Member in the European, Middle East and African region to join SNOMED International, setting the expectation for increased interoperability as well as the promise of leveraging learnings amongst its regional and international counterparts. SNOMED CT becomes part of the Cyprus national infrastructure to ensure the exchange of accurate, relevant and timely information across all the information systems to support direct care, self-care and secondary uses of health information. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Back Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics Research Partner 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. Additional information Effective April 29, 2022, 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. In return, OHDSI and its user community can provide SNOMED International with information and feedback on clinical validation, frequency of use data, and validation of SNOMED CT content modeling. Ultimately, continuous feedback shared regarding identified content gaps will benefit both user communities as we move forward together. The collaboration supports SNOMED International’s Member and stakeholder-driven five-year strategy, which includes genomic content collaboration as well as engagement with the research community. The work of OHDSI looks to showcase the use of SNOMED CT for the purposes of data analytics, supporting both healthcare research and audit, with the aim of enhancing healthcare globally. Press Release: June 2022: SNOMED International and international health research network, OHDSI, collaborate to open up new opportunities for their communities Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Inserm and SNOMED International renew their collaborative agreement guiding the represetnation of Orphanet rare disease content into SNOMED CT Back 5 May 2020 Back London, United Kingdom, May 7, 2020 -- In February 2020, the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (Inserm) and SNOMED International took steps to renew their relationship governing the rare disease content included in SNOMED CT. A relationship initially forged in 2015, the objective of the agreement is to improve the visibility of rare diseases in terminologies and promote interoperability among different codification and terminology systems, such as SNOMED CT for the benefit of their shared users globally. Inserm is the only public research organization in France entirely dedicated to human health operating under the joint authority of the French Ministry of Health and French Ministry of Research. Inserm’s objective is to promote the health of all by advancing knowledge about life and disease, treatment innovation, and public health research. Orphanet, the Inserm unit dedicated to knowledge on rare diseases, maintains the Orphanet nomenclature of rare diseases (ORPHA codes) and provides a multilingual database of information related to rare diseases and orphan drugs. SNOMED CT is the world’s largest clinical terminology, representing a collection of more than 350,000+ clinical concepts and built upon ontological principles, particularly useful when applied in research and planning capacities. SNOMED CT’s primary purpose is to support all healthcare professionals in their recording and sharing of detailed patient information within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and across healthcare communities globally. Recognizing the mutual benefit of working together, Inserm and SNOMED International maintain that through this agreement each organization's actions are complimentary in nature, avoiding duplication and placing full emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration. “Orphanet is committed to increasing the visibility of rare disease patients in health information systems and promoting interoperability between countries using different coding systems. This collaboration is a great step towards this goal” shares Orphanet Director, Dr. Ana Rath. Capitalizing on the momentum of a renewed agreement, the organizations are proceeding with the alpha release of the SNOMED CT (RF2) to Orphanet (human readable) map, to which community feedback is invited. Access to the human readable map is made available from Inserm from www.orphadata.org , and from SNOMED International for Members and Affiliates from the organization’s Member Licensing and Distribution Service . Based on community feedback, the production release of the SNOMED CT to Orphanet map is slated for release in September 2021. “The ability to represent the scope of rare disease content in SNOMED CT is essential and facilitating the link to Orphanet for research by our common users is a primary goal of the organization. Evolving our fruitful relationship with Inserm has been a significant milestone” offers SNOMED International CEO, Don Sweete. An agreement in effect to December 2021, both organizations remain committed to developing jointly agreed upon content maintenance processes, map scope management, exploration of different display capabilities and ongoing opportunities for collaborative projects and awareness initiatives. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

One step closer to interoperability: Applying SNOMED CT’s engine to the IPS Back 25 Nov 2021 Back Since the date of issue, this information is now out of date and has been archived. It has been made available for reference. At SNOMED International’s recent October Business Meetings held in London, the organization’s governance bodies enacted a decision to extend the core of SNOMED CT’s structured clinical terminology to deliver an open, standalone sub-ontology to support the scope of content within the International Patient Summary (IPS.) The IPS is an electronic health record extract containing essential healthcare information for use in the unscheduled, cross-border care scenario, as well as for local, regional and other care scenarios. It is a minimal, non-exhaustive set of data elements defined by ISO/EN 17269 and delivered by HL7 in both CDA and FHIR using a curated set of SNOMED CT terms. There is a groundswell of support across all health sectors to increase the portability and usability of patient information for the purpose of safe health care delivery. In 2019, SNOMED International and HL7 International announced the formalization of a license agreement in which a relevant ‘Free for Use’ Set of SNOMED CT coded concepts would be used within the HL7 IPS. Most recently, we watched as G7 leaders collaborated to release a communique on the dire need to progress a global health interoperability agenda. IBM offers a working definition of interoperability as “the timely and secure access, integration and use of electronic health data so that it can be used to optimize health outcomes for individuals and populations.” The G7 communique, which highlighted the importance of enabling digital healthcare systems worldwide to work together seamlessly as patients move between providers, facilities and even countries, is an impactful statement that rippled throughout the global health community. A charge taken up by the Global Digital Health Partnership, it is one SNOMED International is eager to support. Embracing a collaborative approach, “SNOMED International has been pleased to continue to work with HL7 International and partners across Europe and beyond to define SNOMED CT content for use in the International Patient Summary,” offered SNOMED International Management Board Chair, Joanne Burns. Continuing to act in the spirit of the IPS Free Set , SNOMED International has committed to create and release an openly available IPS sub-ontology in the first half of 2022 to enhance the existing cross border movement of information, and ultimately health system interoperability. Unlike SNOMED International’s Global Patient Set , a flat list of SNOMED CT codes and terms, an IPS sub-ontology will provide implementers with a product that can be used in healthcare solutions using the power of SNOMED CT through its query language and hierarchies for the specified scope. Use of the IPS sub-ontology will allow for more effective use of clinical data analytics and decision support, and for Artificial Intelligence applications. Alex Elias, Chair of SNOMED International’s General Assembly, the organization’s Member governance body, has observed a significant increase in discussion regarding the IPS. “2021 has seen increased interest by governments and Health and Care organizations globally for implementing the IPS to enhance timely cross border health information flow and interoperability. This has been a primary driver in SNOMED International supporting this recent initiative to make the IPS sub-ontology openly available with SNOMED CT content.“ An organization with an extensive history and active program of collaboration, SNOMED International CEO, Don Sweete, has played a pivotal role in positioning the IPS sub-ontology as a ‘soon to be achieved’ reality. “As the G7 Health Ministers recently indicated, the importance of enabling digital healthcare systems worldwide to work together seamlessly so patients don’t suffer as they move between providers, facilities and even countries is a sentiment that has rippled throughout the global health community”, offered Sweete. He went on to state that, “continued work with fellow health standards development, national, clinical and technical entities, SNOMED International will dedicate resources to achieve the goal of digital health interoperability.” Sweete added, “equipping the IPS, already one of the best examples of international collaboration among standards bodies, with the full capability of SNOMED CT’s ontological design is a significant action that we can contribute to achieving health information access gains for patients.” Over the coming months, SNOMED International is formalizing the steps and due diligence required to make the IPS sub-ontology available for broad release. Throughout this period, SNOMED International will continue to define the IPS sub-ontology, from content through to its release and maintenance approach for launch in the first half of 2022. Visit SNOMED International's IPS Sub-Ontology information page or subscribe to the organization’s news service to learn more as this initiative progresses. For additional information, contact info@snomed.org . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

American Dental Association Back American Dental Association Clinical Partner 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. Additional information 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 . Press Release: April 2016: New agreement between ADA and SNOMED International Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency Back Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency Standards Partner 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. Additional information Initial work was the incorporation of relevant GMDN© content into SNOMED CT and production of a map from SNOMED CT to GMDN©. As part of ongoing maintenance, new content continues to be included in each SNOMED CT International release, with the SNOMED CT to GMDN© map also updated inline with these releases. Emerging requirements are the need to link EHR information about medical devices to regulation and any safety issues. Globally, medical device regulators are introducing rules governing unique device identification (UDI). As a result, it is important for SNOMED International to understand its stakeholder requirements for medical device content and its relationship with GMDN© and other medical device nomenclatures as medical device regulation is updated across the world. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

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ASSESS CT declares SNOMED CT is the best available core reference terminology in Europe Back 9 Jun 2017 Back The goal of the ASSESS CT report, released in early 2017, was to make a significant contribution to the debate on eHealth semantic interoperability in Europe. The substantial analysis and research invested by ASSESS CT has identified SNOMED CT the core reference terminology for EU-wide deployment; a significant piece of the puzzle needed to accomplish eHealth interoperability. SNOMED International recognizes ASSESS CT for its leadership throughout this initiative and welcomes further collaboration opportunities to support achievement of semantic interoperability across Europe, and globally. Please see the SNOMED International Response linked below for more information. The 5 recommendations include: Any decision about the adoption and role of terminological resources, including SNOMED CT, must be part of a wider, coherent and priority driven strategy for optimising the benefits of semantic interoperability. in health data, and of the overarching eHealth strategy of the European Union and its Member States. SNOMED CT is the best available core reference terminology for crossborder, national and regional eHealth deployments in Europe. SNOMED CT should be part of an ecosystem of terminologies, including international aggregation terminologies (e.g., the WHO Family of Classifications), and user interface terminologies, which address multilingualism in Europe and clinical communication with multidisciplinary professional language and lay language. The adoption of SNOMED CT should be realised incrementally rather than all at once, by developing terminology subsets that address the interoperability requirements for priority use cases and expanding these sets over a number of years. Mechanisms should be established to facilitate and coordinate European Member State cooperation on terminology and semantic interoperability, including common areas of governance across national terminology centres, eHealth competence centres (or equivalent national bodies). Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

JIC: Setting the stage for the future Back 7 Jul 2020 Back Since 2007, the Joint Initiative Council (JIC) has been committed to transforming the global healthcare system into one that is digital. The goal is precise, targeting the real-time exchange of information based on full interoperability enabled by global standards. Download our white paper and learn how nine global standards development organisations serving collectively as the JIC are proudly working together to build and continuously refine coordinated global standards that make high-quality data available to the right people, at the right place and time, supporting high-quality healthcare decisions. Stay up to date with JIC updates on Twitter and LinkedIn Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe