SNOMED appoints new Management Board Chair and 3 new Directors, closing out five-year strategy Back 1 Nov 2024 Back At the October 2024 Business Meetings and Expo in Seoul, Korea, SNOMED International announced new appointees to its Management Board, a governance body with legal and oversight responsibility for the direction, management and risk mitigation of SNOMED International. The Management Board, currently comprising seven directors including the Chair, offers the organization a wealth of experience in global healthcare and informatics, advanced technologies, organizational governance and business leadership and risk management, guiding the organization as it executes against a defined strategy and plan for the future. Management Board directors’ expertise and industry relationships are key to enabling SNOMED International to leverage technologies and strengthen partnerships with our many stakeholders worldwide. Acknowledging outgoing members The past seven years that our outgoing directors served was marked by a myriad of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, managing the organizational budget throughout a period of widespread inflation, and developing a strategy to embrace advanced technologies to better position the organization and its Members for the future. SNOMED International thanks outgoing Chair Joanne Burns and Directors Matic Meglic and Gong Mengchun for their considerable contributions to the Management Board and their commitment to enabling the organization to realize its goals: Joanne Burns , outgoing Chair, began her term in April 2017 as a Director and was appointed Chair in September 2020. Throughout her tenure, she worked closely with the General Assembly Executive and the SNOMED International CEO to shape both the development and successful execution of the 2020-2025 SNOMED International strategy, and has been instrumental in the development of the 2025-2030 strategy and operations plan as well. Matic Meglic joined the Board as a Director in April 2017. Matic, who also served as Chair of the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee, brought to SNOMED International his considerable expertise in public health, health informatics and semantic interoperability, both in Europe and globally. Gong Mengchun joined the Management Board as Director in April 2017. Dr. Gong, who was a participating member of the board’s Technical Innovation Committee, is dedicated to promoting the standardization of medical data globally and conducting research in medical informatics. Avidly interested in the areas of artificial intelligence and large language models, he gave the SNOMED CT Expo 2023 James Read Memorial Lecture on using SNOMED CT to power public health management and knowledge discovery in COVID-19. New Board Chair and New Members The Management Board reflects the global diversity of SNOMED International Members, not just geographically, but in its wide expanse of professional experience and industry acumen and expertise. SNOMED International welcomes the following new Board Chair and Directors: Board Chair Dr Andrew Roddam Dr Andrew Roddam, who has served as a Director since October 2020, is an accomplished life sciences executive and internationally renowned epidemiologist with more than twenty years of experience across both academia and the pharmaceutical industry, principally focused on the application and use of real world data and epidemiological methods to advance the understanding of human disease. An experienced international board member who frequently serves as keynote speaker at various global conferences, he is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of EveryONE Medicines, an organization committed to developing individualized precision therapeutics. New Directors Dr Juana Lucia Flores-Candia Juana Lucia Flores-Candia, currently the Chief Innovation Officer at AtG, a pre-clinical stage drug development company, has more than 20 years of experience in healthcare, including holding significant leadership roles at biopharma company GSK and innovative medicines company Novartis. Juana Lucia also has led digital transformation and implementation projects in clinical trials and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven solutions. Christian Hein Christian Hein, currently a Strategic Advisory Board Member for healthcare AI firm QuantHealth, has held senior executive roles, including as Vice President, Global Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation Execution at Novartis, and Head of European Union Digital Technology Hubs for Amgen Innovation. He has also has worked with multinational pharmaceutical companies and advised startups globally. Bettina McMahon Bettina McMahon is currently Chief Executive Officer of online healthcare advice provider Healthdirect Australia and former Interim CEO and Chief Operating Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, where she led major digital health projects and reforms. Bettina has also managed large technology projects, led the rollout of Australia’s My Health Record, and developed national digital health policies and standards. For the past three years she has been Board Chair of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, Australia’s peak body for informaticians and digital health professionals. “SNOMED International is deeply grateful to our outgoing Management Board Directors for the many contributions they have made, the multifaceted perspectives they have shared and their deep expertise in leadership, healthcare technology and healthcare informatics,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “You’ve helped us navigate critical challenges and build greater resilience in turbulent times, and while your term here has ended, your impact will continue to shape our future. We thank you for your dedication and partnership. At the same time, we welcome our new Chair and Directors, and we look forward to their guidance as we begin to execute on our next strategy.” Visit the linked governance page to learn more about the legal and oversight responsibility of SNOMED International Management Board. 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Belize advances its digital health goals with the adoption of SNOMED CT Back 16 Dec 2024 Back SNOMED International is excited to announce Belize as our most recent SNOMED International Member in the Central American and Caribbean region. Other countries in the region that have also recently become SNOMED International Members are El Salvador and Jamaica. 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. Belize, an ethnically, geographically and culturally diverse country, is located on the northeast side of Central America south of the Yucatán Peninsula. A nation of close to 500,000 citizens, the country’s official language is English; its second most widely spoken language is Spanish. Belize’s adoption of SNOMED CT is part of its efforts to digitize and modernize its healthcare delivery services. In 2022, the country announced the digital transformation of its health sector via a European Union-funded Health Sector Support Programme Belize Project to develop and implement a Clinical Data Exchange Platform to enable interconnectivity and interoperability between various different platforms such as Belize's Health Information System (BHIS). In June 2024, the Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness announced it was seeking Inter-American Development Bank funding for further integration of digital technologies as part of its work to strengthen the BHIS and develop a more comprehensive framework for telemedicine, starting with a pilot program focused on mental health services. The country’s Ministry of Health and Wellness will act as the National Release Centre (NRC) for the country. NRCs serve as the interface between SNOMED International, the national users and Affiliates, and other Members. “We are excited to see a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean becoming SNOMED international Members as one important element of their digital health strategies,” said SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “Belize’s decision to become a Member demonstrates that SNOMED CT is designed to support Members of all sizes, and we know Belize will also benefit from the knowledge and experience of other countries in the region such as El Salvador and Jamaica.” 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. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Shanghai Kyee Technology Co Ltd Back Shanghai Kyee Technology Co Ltd Vendor Overview Shanghai Kyee Technology Co., Ltd. is a leading smart medical technology and service provider in China. It was founded in 2004. Its business scope covers many fields such as medical cloud, smart ward and HRP, and comprehensively arranges digital hospital and regional smart medical. The company's excellent team has created a number of remarkable achievements and successfully provided technology, products and services to more than 13000 medical institutions and village clinics in China, including more than 700 tertiary hospitals, to help medical institutions improve service quality and efficiency and ensure medical safety. In the 16 years of deep cultivation of medical informatics, Kyee technology is determined to innovate and takes the lead in adopting mobile Internet technology, cloud computing and various operation modes including SaaS to provide medical cloud services for the government and various types of medical institutions, daily business systems for doctors and nursing staff, and a series of fine management tools for hospital management Regional collaborative services for medical institutions to help medical institutions effectively reduce system construction costs and operation and maintenance costs, build a new service system and innovate medical service modes. 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-enabled solutions HCS Clinical Suite & EMR Scope of services Diagnostic imaging, EMR, Telehealth Downloadable documents Office 8F, Shuyu Building 1028 Panyu Road Shanghai Shanghai 200030 China www.kyee.com.cn Contact details ZHANG CHAO Marketing Director +86 156-0175-1500 zhangchao@kyee.com.cn Regions where operational Asia

Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Back Global Alliance for Genomics and Health Clinical Partner 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. Additional information 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. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

AutoICD Back AutoICD Vendor Overview At AutoICD, we are committed to transforming the healthcare industry through innovative technologies. Our cutting-edge AI-powered Clinical Coding API provides a highly accurate and reliable solution for clinical documentation supporting SNOMED and ICD10 terminology standards. With AutoICD API, medical professionals can streamline their coding process, reducing errors and saving time. As a company, we pride ourselves on providing exceptional customer service and support. We work closely with our clients to ensure that they get the most out of our products and services. Whether you're a small clinic or a large healthcare provider, AutoICD is here to help you streamline your clinical coding process and improve patient outcomes. 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-enabled solutions AutoICD is a cutting-edge API that utilizes the power of artificial intelligence to process unstructured clinical texts and insurance claims. Our advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology enables the automatic generation of structured data in both SNOMED-CT and ICD10 code systems. With AutoICD's Computed Assited Coding (CAC), healthcare providers and insurers can streamline their workflows, reduce errors, and improve the accuracy and efficiency of their clinical documentation and coding processes. Our SNOMED-CT enabled solutions provide the highest level of specificity and granularity, making it easier to understand patient conditions and treatments. Trust AutoICD to take your clinical coding to the next level. Scope of services Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, EHR, EMR Downloadable documents Office Canelones 1228 Montevideo, Uruguay 11100 https://autoicdapi.com/ Contact details Federico Gonzalez Founder info@autoicdapi.com https://autoicdapi.com/ Regions where operational North America, South America

West Coast Informatics Inc Back West Coast Informatics Inc Vendor Overview West Coast Informatics (WCI) has been a trusted leader in healthcare terminology for over a decade. Our mission is to simplify the complexities of code systems, empowering organizations to seamlessly share and interpret health information with precision and certainty. As specialists in healthcare informatics, we are dedicated to simplifying clinical data standards, allowing you to focus on your project’s unique goals without distraction. Whether you are a technology company building innovative solutions, an academic institution advancing research and education, or a healthcare provider striving for better patient outcomes, WCI provides the tools and expertise to make terminology management effortless and effective. With deep roots in healthcare terminology, we have partnered with leading standards organizations such as SNOMED International , the US National Cancer Institute , and global public and commercial entities. WCI supports a wide range of international standards, as well as localized content, through tailored services, including software development, seamless implementation, and expert medical informatics guidance. Our mission is to advance terminology usage, making healthcare standards accessible and valuable to both seasoned professionals and those new to the field. We understand that adopting healthcare standards can be complex, which is why we offer robust educational resources to simplify the process. Our tools include beginner-friendly guides, tutorials, and practical applications designed to make understanding these standards more approachable. Through our blog series, The Language of Healthcare —beginning with SNOMED CT—we deliver clear, concise overviews of key terminology standards. Additionally, we provide hands-on learning opportunities with TermHub™’s Sandbox and the quick-start TermHub™-in-5-Minutes tool. Whether you are a seasoned expert or new to healthcare terminologies, WCI is committed to equipping you with the knowledge and resources needed to succeed. 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-enabled solutions Among the key features of TermHub™ are: Comprehensive Terminology Server : Includes an intuitive browser, robust FHIR APIs, and extensive metadata support. Self-Managed Content : Offers automatic version control and scalability to meet the needs of organizations of any size. User-Friendly Design : Built to accommodate both experts and those new to healthcare terminologies. Risk-Free Evaluation : Experience TermHub™ with a 90-day free trial. Among the key features of AutoMap™ are: Code Identification : Extracts standard terminology codes from unstructured text, such as clinical notes. Advanced Mapping : Enables automated mapping between proprietary and standard terminologies or across multiple standards. Data Normalization : Standardizes healthcare data from FHIR resources containing mixed coding systems. Proven Success : Demonstrated impact in projects such as SNOMED-to-ICD-11 mapping with SNOMED International, normalizing FHIR resources across Health Information Exchanges (HIE), and processing consumer-entered text in life insurance applications. Increased Efficiency : Reduces manual effort while improving accuracy and consistency. Scope of services Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Middleware, Clinical coding, Order sets Downloadable documents https://www.westcoastinformatics.com/products/termhub https://www.westcoastinformatics.com/products/termserver https://www.westcoastinformatics.com/products/mapping https://www.westcoastinformatics.com/products/db-load-scripts Office Oakland, CA Contact details Brian Carlsen CTO 971-361-6588 bcarlsen@westcoastinformatics.com Regions where operational Global

Clinithink Back Clinithink Vendor Overview Clinithink is a specialist Clinical Natural Language Processing (CNLP) company helping to solve long standing challenges in patient recruitment for clinical trials by automating pre-screening and enabling sites and sponsors to meet recruitment targets on time and within budget. Clinithink’s core offering allows users to access existing unstructured clinical narrative stored in data warehouses and repositories – a rich, untapped source of information - to identify eligible patients. Clinithink is engaged in ground-breaking work with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York finding 10X the patients that meet trial-specific inclusion and exclusion criteria in a fraction of the time it currently takes. 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-enabled solutions Clinithink's CLiX ENRICH solution leverages the 90% of valuable patient information stored as unstructured data in data warehouses and repositories. CLiX ENRICH is a Clinical Natural Language Processing (CNLP)-based solution that automatically map unstructured clinical narrative to SNOMED CT to preserve the intended meaning and offer complete, accurate, actionable information to the user. Scope of services Analytics, Clinical documentation, Middleware Downloadable documents Clinithink - Case Study - Mount Sinai Diabetes Clinical Trial Clinithink - Case Study - Mount Sinai Rare Disease Clinical Trial Clinithink - WhitePaper - A Paradigm Shift in Patient Recruitment Office 555 Northpoint Center East 4th Floor Alpharetta Georgia 30022 USA www.clinithink.com Contact details Sheryl Lowenhar VP, Sales and Marketing +1 201 741 5952 sheryl.lowenhar@clinithink.com Regions where operational Europe, North America

SIIM and HIMSS recommend SNOMED CT as the standard anatomy terminology for imaging Back 20 Jun 2025 Back SNOMED International is pleased to announce that the Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) and the Healthcare Information and Management System Society (HIMSS), following years of research and review of a number of existing ontologies, are recommending SNOMED CT to their members as the standard anatomy terminology for imaging. The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) - Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) Enterprise Imaging Community (HSEIC) identified anatomy as a crucial data element necessary to facilitate the consumption and interoperability of medical imaging data in 2019. The first paper, The Importance of Body Part Labeling to Enable Enterprise Imaging: A HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Collaborative White Paper , was published in 2021. The HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Data Standards Evaluation Workgroup conducted a comprehensive assessment of anatomical ontologies with the aim of facilitating enterprise imaging. They analyzed different ontologies and assessed their suitability for the complex landscape of enterprise imaging. Importantly, the workgroup incorporated feedback from providers across different medical and surgical specialties, imaging technology experts, and vendors to identify key features of the ideal ontology and create real-world clinical use cases. The result of the evaluation work is the whitepaper, "Report of the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Data Standards Evaluation Workgroup: Anatomic Ontology Assessment ," published in June 2024. SNOMED CT received the highest possible marks for almost every criterion and use-case workflow step.. Additionally, the fact that it offers multiple resources and open-source tools to assist the developer community were cited as additional reasons to recommend SNOMED CT for the imaging community. The assessment ultimately concludes that SNOMED CT is the most viable solution for standardizing anatomy terminology across the medical imaging community. SNOMED International Senior Terminologist Yongsheng Gao, PhD, attended a recent SIIM conference, where he and Dawn Cram, CIIP, Chair of the workgroup, presented on adopting SNOMED CT for anatomy nomenclature in enterprise imaging. “The comprehensive coverage of SNOMED CT and clinically meaningful representation of relationships of body parts meet different requirements from wide medical imaging specialties,” says Dr. Gao. Ms. Cram discussed the assessment of the existing ontologies and recommended that the enterprise imaging industry focus its efforts on the adoption and implementation of SNOMED CT and establish a relationship between the HSEIC and SNOMED International to enable the community's participation. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete welcomed the decision. “Millions of patients undergo various types of imaging, from X-rays to MRIs to CT scans, daily. In fact, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency , over 4 billion diagnostic radiological and nuclear medicine procedures are performed globally each year, and without the use of standardized terminology, the risk for harm to those patients increases substantially, so we salute the HSEIC decision to recommend SNOMED CT to their members.” About SIIM The Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine (SIIM) is the leading healthcare professional organization for those interested in the current and future use of informatics in medical imaging. SIIM’s mission is to advance medical imaging informatics across the enterprise through education, research, and innovation in a multi-disciplinary community. SIIM members are global advisors and thought leaders in imaging informatics, focusing on enterprise imaging, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and standards. About SNOMED International SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns and develops SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive healthcare terminology product. We play an essential role in improving the health of humankind by determining standards for a codified language that represents groups of clinical terms. This enables healthcare information to be exchanged globally for the benefit of patients and other stakeholders. We are committed to the rigorous evolution of our products and services, to deliver continuous innovation for the global healthcare community. SNOMED International is the trading name of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. https://www.snomed.org/ About HIMSS HIMSS is a global advisor and leader supporting the transformation of the health ecosystem. Transforming health — that's our “why,” and technology is the “how.” We know that the health ecosystem can be extraordinary, and that new perspectives and solutions are the key to real change. From public policy to digital health transformation, that’s what drives us and our members. With over 60 years of dedicated service to the global health community, we operate across North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. Our global community is 125,000+ strong, and includes everyone from nurses to AI researchers. We bring insights from the world’s top health systems, including 430+ provider organizations, 500+ nonprofit partners and 550+ health services organizations. Media Inquiries SIIM Priyanka Harilal Email: pharilal@siim.org SNOMED International Kelly Kuru Email: comms@snomed.org HIMSS Albe Zakes Email: Albe.zakes@himss.org Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

IBM Watson Health adds SNOMED CT for clinical terminology Back 31 Mar 2017 Back SNOMED International and IBM have announced that Watson Health will adopt SNOMED CT for use in Watson Health offerings in support of IBM’s commitment to comprehensive standardization of patient data worldwide. The agreement between SNOMED International and IBM Watson Health breaks new ground and allows for significant impact, pairing SNOMED CT’s 325,000+ clinical concepts with Watson’s cognitive capabilities. SNOMED CT presents clinically-relevant concepts and modifiers consistently and comprehensively, providing a ‘global language of healthcare’. Standardizing IBM Watson Health’s offerings on SNOMED CT supports efforts to provide customers and collaborators with clear information to help clinicians arrive at sound medical decisions and support the efficient delivery of quality care. Visit the IBM Watson Health partnerships page to access the official press release and recent Healthcare IT News article. For more information on IBM Watson Health, visit: ibm.com/watsonhealth . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Cancer staging content from the American Joint Committee on Cancer will appear in SNOMED CT Back 6 Jul 2022 Back London, United Kingdom and Chicago, Illinois The American College of Surgeons (ACS) and SNOMED International have entered into a licensing agreement to include agreed upon American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) references in SNOMED CT. The AJCC is administered by the Chicago-based American College of Surgeons. The focus of the agreement enables SNOMED International to include updated AJCC staging concepts critical to understanding cancer and treating patients, while eliminating outdated AJCC content no longer relevant to clinical care within SNOMED CT. The ACS is dedicated to improving the quality of care of surgical patients, including cancer patients requiring surgery, safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment, and setting the standard for surgical care in the United States. Evidence-based anatomic staging is the critical factor to understanding cancer and treating patients and new breakthroughs are opening up ever-more promising possibilities for precisely defining a prognosis and recommending a treatment based on a patient's individual data. The AJCC has developed and compiled cancer staging references for quickly finding important information about different types of cancers. These references and tools are excellent resources for those treating patients with cancer. 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. Up to date AJCC content contributes to the comprehensive and quality assured nature of SNOMED CT for its Members, affiliates and stakeholders in the United States and globally. “Evidence-based anatomic staging is the critical factor to understanding cancer and treating patients. New breakthroughs in oncologic, radiologic, pathologic, and molecular science are opening up that need to be considered for keeping cancer staging information current and relevant to patients. The AJCC endeavors to consider all of these factors in keeping its staging content current. Moreover, as we continue to find ourselves on the other side of the COVID pandemic and move toward trying to get more patients screened and staged for cancer if needed, having the most current staging information available to more clinicians is essential. With this agreement, current AJCC cancer staging content will reach a much wider audience for these important purposes,” said Heidi Nelson, MD, FACS, Medical Director of ACS Cancer Programs. As of April 2022, the ACS and AJCC have enabled the inclusion of the Categories and all Allowable Values (i.e. cT1, cN0, cM0) from the AJCC cancer staging system into the International Edition release of SNOMED CT. Further, the agreement requires historical AJCC and related content, derived from the 5th and 6th editions of the staging manual, to be inactivated as outdated. The agreement with the ACS for AJCC content does not include the Criteria for these Categories and Allowable Values and any SNOMED CT user who requires definitions for AJCC Allowable Values will be directed by SNOMED International to the American College of Surgeons for the appropriate license. Within the scope of the agreement, both parties have committed to review and renew where appropriate its content annually. “Cancer’s many challenges can’t be solved without good collaboration. This agreement between the AJCC and SNOMED International will bring the latest evidence-based information on cancer staging to a wider clinical audience who can immediately apply it in their clinical practices. Ultimately, cancer patients beyond the U.S. will benefit from it too and more lives will be saved,” said Patricia L. Turner, MD, FACS, ACS Executive Director. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete describes the recently signed licensing agreement with the American College of Surgeons as representative of the spirit of partnership and commitment to clinical quality growing globally. “The ability to produce comprehensive and clinically informed and assured standards across the breadth of healthcare domains is critical to the safe use of health information technology. The American Joint Committee on Cancer’s evidence-based work on anatomic staging is the critical factor to understanding cancer and treating patients and a significant addition to the SNOMED CT knowledge base.” With the finalization of the agreement, Dr. James Case, SNOMED International’s Chief Terminologist, speaks about the importance of the license. “The agreement brings us up to date on the current status of cancer staging, supports the needs of pathologists and oncologists as well as cancer registries, and enables us to maintain that currency.” A leading organization responsible for setting the standard of surgical care, the ACS and AJCC formalize this agreement with SNOMED International to broaden global awareness and adoption of cancer staging information. Evolving to become the international hub for all manner of health information standards, for SNOMED International, this agreement contributes to the organization’s support of growing pathology content in SNOMED CT. Visit the American College of Surgeons , the American Joint Committee on Cancer , and SNOMED International for more information. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

2022 marks a year of continued progress and growth for SNOMED International, SNOMED CT Back 11 May 2023 Back SNOMED International recently released its 2022 Annual Report , which presents the organization’s progress against the SNOMED International 2020-2025 strategy , details its activities over the past year, and provides a record of the year’s financial position. Titled Collaborating for Impact: The Achievements of a Dynamic Global Community , the 2022 Annual Report details our extensive activities throughout the year with various stakeholders across the globe, including the addition of 3 new SNOMED International Members. It also includes a number of global success stories, each focusing on SNOMED CT initiatives that helped our Members achieve specific outcomes. The report highlights the organization’s new and renewed collaboration agreements, including the highly anticipated collaboration agreement between SNOMED International and LOINC from Regenstrief which paves the way forward for coordinated use of SNOMED CT and LOINC by both organizations. As well, it captures the content enhancements made over the year and the activities enabling those enhancements. Likewise, it charts our innovative approaches to developing new tools to support stakeholders and optimize the benefits of SNOMED CT implementation and to making SNOMED CT available to more users than ever through regional licensing. Lastly, the 2022 Annual Report highlights our return to in-person engagement, including convening two sets of business meetings and the 2022 SNOMED CT Expo in Portugal, all offered as hybrid events. It also details our participation in and attendance at numerous external thought leadership conferences to connect with current and prospective SNOMED CT users, promoting the benefits of the terminology. We are grateful to our Members and many stakeholder communities for the important role they played in 2022 to advance our shared goals of creating one language of health. To read the 2022 Annual Report, visit www.snomed.org . For more information, contact us at info@snomed.org Media inquiries Kelly Kuru SNOMED International Email: comms@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

Becoming a SNOMED International Member is the latest step for France to become a global leader in digital health. SNOMED International welcomes France as a new Member of the global SNOMED CT community Becoming a SNOMED International Member is the latest step for France to become a global leader in digital health. Back 24 Oct 2023 Back Becoming a SNOMED International Member is the latest step for France, a country of more than 67 million inhabitants, in its efforts to become a global leader in digital health. France will join a community of 48 Members globally. Its SNOMED International membership builds on the country’s eHealth acceleration strategy announced in January 2021. It also supports the “France relance ” recovery plan to accelerate the ecological, industrial and social transformations of the country, as well as the country’s 2023-2027 digital health roadmap , which seeks to employ digital technology to improve and transform its healthcare system. The French Agence du Numerique en Santé (ANS) will serve as the country’s National Release Centre for SNOMED CT. As a Member, France will also be represented on SNOMED International’s General Assembly and the organization’s Member Forum governance bodies. France is the 22nd of the 27 European Union (EU) countries to join SNOMED International. It is also the fourth following the announcement of EU funding for member countries wishing to adopt 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. Building on extensive translation efforts France will benefit from the extensive translation work already completed by the SNOMED International French Translation User Group . The group, which also includes members from Belgium , Canada , Switzerland and Luxembourg , released the first SNOMED CT common French translation in April 2020 as an option to be published as part of the national edition of any Member involved in producing the translation. This group has served as a model to other countries that share the same language and want to similarly develop translations of the terminology. « The development of interoperability is one of the priorities of the e-health French roadmap. Joining SNOMED International allows France to enhance its health and social Terminologies offer. Being a member also grants the French ecosystem the ability to join and collaborate with the SNOMED CT international community. » SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete concurs, adding that France’s membership will augment both the utility and reach of SNOMED CT across Europe. “France has clearly demonstrated its commitment to improving the health and welfare of its citizens through the application of digital health, and its decision to become a SNOMED International Member is an important step in that direction,” he says. “Although there have long been a number of affiliate license users in France, membership means the country can provide access to SNOMED CT – and its global community – to all its commercial and non-commercial users,” he adds. Media Inquiries Julie Messier Agence du Numérique en Santé Email: julie.messier@esante.gouv.fr Kelly Kuru SNOMED International Email: comms@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