Croatia prioritizes the quality and structure of ehealth data with SNOMED membership Back 23 Jun 2023 Back SNOMED International and The Croatian Ministry of Health are pleased to announce that the Republic of Croatia has joined SNOMED International. With a population of nearly 4 million, Croatia is the latest European country to join SNOMED International since the March 2022 announcement that the European Union (EU) will provide its Member States with 60 per cent funding towards SNOMED International membership until 2027, via the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA). “Highly developed with a fully integrated, globalized economy, Croatia made eHealth a priority in its 2021-2027 national health development plan , which is consistent with our comprehensive healthcare reform," says Croatian health Minister Vili Beroš on the occasion of Croatia joining SNOMED International. The goals of the strategy include 36 measures in five categories: improved healthy lifestyles and more effective disease prevention; improvement of the health system; improvement of the model of care for key health challenges; making the health system a desirable place to work; and improving the financial sustainability of the health system. SNOMED CT , the world’s most comprehensive health terminology, is developed, maintained and distributed by SNOMED International, a not-for-profit, member-owned and driven international organization founded in 2007 by nine charter nations. The clinical terminology will play an important role in supporting Croatia in achieving its eHealth goals, particularly those pertaining to improving the healthcare system by supporting greater interoperability and by enabling secondary uses of clinical data such as research and data analysis, providing more insights into patients and care delivery. Moving beyond national borders and connecting to the emerging European Health Data Space , SNOMED CT is poised and positioned to strengthen the secure exchange and interoperability of health data across Europe. “It is encouraging to see the positive impact of the European funding commitment for SNOMED International membership as it contributes to the connectedness of the European digital health landscape,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “Joining an active coalition of SNOMED CT adopters, Croatia’s membership recognizes the benefits clinical terminology can produce for the nation’s and broader European Union’s citizens and health systems with a commitment to implementing SNOMED.” “Although the Croatian health system has been one of the leaders among the EU countries in the cross-border exchange of health data, more precisely e-prescriptions and patient summaries, the use of SNOMED CT at the national level will lower barriers for Croatia to join any subsequent EU level initiatives aiming at cross-border exchange and reuse of health data,” says Croatian Minister Beroš. “Recognition of the reform progress of the Croatian health system by the EU and global experts once again confirms that this Government and the health administration are on the right path towards improving the health picture of the nation. All of the above underlines our reform slogan ‘Health comes first’, which most vividly expresses what we are striving for”, concludes Minister Beroš. To learn more about how SNOMED CT can enable achievement of digital health priorities, visit snomed.org . Media inquiries The Croatian Ministry of Health Email: pitajtenas@miz.hr https://zdravstvo.gov.hr SNOMED International Email: comms@snomed.org www.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

World Health Organization Back World Health Organization Standards Partner 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. Additional information The initial focus was on creating a map between SNOMED CT and ICD-10 for global use, taking into account the editorial guidance of both products. The agreement also set out a framework for linking SNOMED CT and ICD-11 so that users who had licenses for both would benefit and over a number of years work was undertaken to develop a methodology for creating this linkage. As WHO focused on delivering ICD-11 Morbidity and Mortality Statistics (MMS), the collaboration work focused on ensuring alignment between SNOMED CT and ICD-11 MMS to facilitate based on implementation targets set by the World Health Assembly for ICD-11 MMS, with SNOMED International members identifing their first priority to be the production of a map from SNOMED CT to ICD-11 MMS. An initial automated map has been produced by SNOMED International and is currently available for review. SNOMED International and WHO remain committed to the overall goal of the original arrangement and are working on developing new ways of moving forward providing a linkage between SNOMED CT and ICD-11. Further information will be available once the collaborative arrangement has been formally revised and mutually agreed by both organizations, with a direction for the collaborative work. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Long-Standing Collaboration Renewed for Continued Production of SNOMED CT - DICOM Freeset Back 11 Aug 2021 Back SNOMED International and DICOM have formally extended their longstanding agreement to publish a SNOMED CT Freeset of coded concepts in the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standard. This collaboration agreement, a renewal of the agreement negotiated in 2016, will extend for a 5-year term to July 1, 2026. DICOM has been incorporating SNOMED CT into its Standard for more than 20 years, originally through an agreement with the College of American Pathologists (CAP) before SNOMED CT was undertaken by IHTSDO, now rebranded as SNOMED International. “This is great news for our collective medical imaging interoperability community,” said Lawrence Tarbox, Co-Chair of the DICOM Standard Committee. “We are thrilled to continue collaboration with SNOMED International with this agreement renewal.” “This agreement will support the consistent use of standardized clinical terminology within DICOM that will ultimately benefit patient care,” added DICOM General Secretary Carolyn Hull. This renewed licensing agreement covers the use of an agreed-upon set of 7,000+ SNOMED CT codes and descriptions in the DICOM Standard. The SNOMED CT-DICOM set is updated once annually in line with the July SNOMED CT international release, considering changes to SNOMED CT and any requests for changes from the DICOM Standard Committee. “Renewal of our joint commitment to enable the use of consistent clinical terminology for imaging purposes is a clear example of the recent interoperability statements issued at the G7 Health Ministers meeting,” stated SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “The importance of international health collaboration is at the core of our approach to partnerships, in which DICOM continues to play a vital role.” The DICOM Freeset is also available as part of SNOMED International's Global Patient Set (GPS), an open product designed to enable the sharing of patient health information coded with SNOMED CT across care settings, systems, and national borders. Supporting the movement of structured clinical terminology and providing options for countries at the beginning of their digital health journey, the GPS is a managed collection of existing reference sets available to any user at no cost and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Including clinical content across dentistry, renal, family and general practice, and nursing areas, the GPS also includes IHE and HL7 International Patient Summary (IPS) domains and activities in addition to DICOM content. To learn more about this continuously evolving collaboration, please visit the DICOM and SNOMED International websites. The DICOM SNOMED CT content is available via the SNOMED CT International Edition and also accessible as part of SNOMED International’s Global Patient Set . About DICOM DICOM ® — Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine — is the international standard for medical images and related information. It defines the formats for medical images that can be exchanged with the data and quality necessary for clinical use. DICOM ® is implemented in almost every radiology, cardiology imaging, and radiotherapy device (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound, etc.), and increasingly in devices in other medical domains such as ophthalmology and dentistry. With hundreds of thousands of medical imaging devices in use, DICOM ® is one of the most widely deployed healthcare messaging Standards in the world. There are billions of DICOM ® images currently in use for clinical care. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

As a key component of the Quality Improvement project, the SI Content Team is engaged in the ongoing evaluation and refinement of the 71388002 |Procedure (procedure)| hierarchy. This process aims to standardize and normalize content, ensuring strict compliance with established Editorial Guidance and Policy to uphold terminology structural quality, consistency, accuracy and usability. Furthermore, user feedback is systematically analyzed to optimize modeling patterns, resulting in the creation and dissemination of updated Model Patterns, Editorial Guidance and Templates designed to support SCT authors and implementers. Back View Map SNOMED International Advancing Procedure Concept Modeling in SNOMED CT: Standards, Best Practices and Evolution. Read More Country / Region EMEA Tags Data quality, Expression constraint language As a key component of the Quality Improvement project, the SI Content Team is engaged in the ongoing evaluation and refinement of the 71388002 |Procedure (procedure)| hierarchy. This process aims to standardize and normalize content, ensuring strict compliance with established Editorial Guidance and Policy to uphold terminology structural quality, consistency, accuracy and usability. Furthermore, user feedback is systematically analyzed to optimize modeling patterns, resulting in the creation and dissemination of updated Model Patterns, Editorial Guidance and Templates designed to support SCT authors and implementers. Description The standardization and normalization of procedure concept modeling, ensuring adherence to established editorial guidelines. The development of practical tools and resources, including templates and best practice documentation, to support SCT authors and implementers in creating and maintaining accurate procedure concepts. Scope SNOMED CT is used for internal quality assurance processes, ensuring the accuracy and consistency of clinical data. How SNOMED CT will be used Internal review and standardized authoring of procedure concepts within the 71388002 |Procedure (procedure)| hierarchy, utilizing proprietary tooling applications. The Procedure hierarchy was identified as a top priority at the Member forum survey 2023. Why SNOMED CT will be used Contact More information Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Expression Constraint Language - Version 1.2 Available Back 19 Feb 2017 Back Please note that version 1.5 of the SNOMED CT Expression Constraint Language Specification and Guide is available at: https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/DOCECL SNOMED International is pleased to announce the publication of version 1.2 of the Expression Constraint Language at http://snomed.org/ecl . The Expression Constraint Language is a formal syntax for representing computable rules used to define sets of clinical meanings. Expression constraints can be used to define intensional reference sets, to query SNOMED CT data, and to restrict the valid values in an information model. ECL version 1.2 incorporates updates that were requested by implementers of the language, including: The ability for the memberOf function to be applied to a set of reference set concepts defined using an expression constraint; and A correction to the definition of numericValue to allow negative decimal values to be fully supported. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Learn more about SNOMED International About us SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns, administers and develops SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. The safe, accurate and effective exchange of health information is an essential foundation to improve healthcare around the world. We strive to determine the best global standards for health terminology and to engage with the global healthcare community to improve SNOMED CT and patient safety. Who we are SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns, administers, and develops SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. We play an essential role in improving human health by determining standards for codified language that represents groups of clinical terms. SNOMED International strives to determine the best global standards for health terminologies and to engage with the global healthcare community to improve SNOMED CT to better serve the clinical information needs of a diverse range of healthcare stakeholders. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe What is SNOMED CT? Learn more about SNOMED CT Strategy, objectives and results The development of a global language for health - uniting health systems from around the world and enabling them to communicate with and understand one another - is an international endeavor. SNOMED International was established to build and strengthen SNOMED CT, and to develop, maintain, promote and enable the uptake and correct use of its terminology products in health systems, services and products around the world. Learn more Governance and advisory SNOMED International is a membership organization representing countries or other approved territories. As defined by the organization’s Articles of Association, each Member is entitled to be represented by an individual in the SNOMED International General Assembly as well as have representatives participate on the Member Forum in an advisory capacity. Members play a critical governance role through the approval of the organization's budget and strategy. Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice Learn more Get involved Find out how you can get involved Learn more Governance and advisory Our Members play a critical governance role in managing SNOMED CT Learn more Our team SNOMED International is staffed by a multinational, highly qualified, multidisciplinary and global workforce. Learn more Job opportunities Are you interested in a career at SNOMED International? Join a dynamic team in pursuit of better health care delivery internationally. Learn more Who we are Strategy, objectives & results Governance and advisory Our team Job opportunities

Laboratory medicine is faced with rapid developments in data exchange, secondary use of data and AI. Safe exchange of laboratory data requires a suitable terminology standard. NPU, LOINC and SNOMED CT are increasingly used for this purpose, but none of these terminology standards can currently accommodate safe exchange across the full spectrum of conventional laboratory data. Furthermore, rapid technological advances in, amongst others, the ‘omics’ area will enforce a shift towards precision diagnostics. These emerging technologies demand an appropriate and future-proof terminology standard. Given the current and future challenges in laboratory terminologies, we here present a concept for digital metrology in laboratory medicine. Terminology standards used in laboratory medicine should be adjusted to the current state of science to allow safe data exchange and interpretation. Essential test information for safe data exchange and secondary use of data now and in the future entails the full spectrum of pre-pre-analysis to post-post-analysis. Major improvements needed include sufficient coding detail for the molecular form of the measurand and information on metrological traceability. Furthermore, it will become essential to indicate interrelationships between measurands. Herefore, integration with established taxonomies like UniprotKB would allow improved identification of interrelationships between measurands and linkage with scientific information for multidisciplinary data science. Hence, laboratory data can further gain in specificity and value. The time has come to lay the basis for safe data exchange in the era of precision diagnostics. A consensus for digital metrology in laboratory medicine will be essential to move forward with health data exchange. Back View Map Leiden University Medical Centre Digital metrology in laboratory medicine: a call for bringing order to chaos to facilitate precision diagnostics Read More Country / Region EMEA Tags Clinical Practice, Data quality, Innovation, Patient safety Laboratory medicine is faced with rapid developments in data exchange, secondary use of data and AI. Safe exchange of laboratory data requires a suitable terminology standard. NPU, LOINC and SNOMED CT are increasingly used for this purpose, but none of these terminology standards can currently accommodate safe exchange across the full spectrum of conventional laboratory data. Furthermore, rapid technological advances in, amongst others, the ‘omics’ area will enforce a shift towards precision diagnostics. These emerging technologies demand an appropriate and future-proof terminology standard. Given the current and future challenges in laboratory terminologies, we here present a concept for digital metrology in laboratory medicine. Terminology standards used in laboratory medicine should be adjusted to the current state of science to allow safe data exchange and interpretation. Essential test information for safe data exchange and secondary use of data now and in the future entails the full spectrum of pre-pre-analysis to post-post-analysis. Major improvements needed include sufficient coding detail for the molecular form of the measurand and information on metrological traceability. Furthermore, it will become essential to indicate interrelationships between measurands. Herefore, integration with established taxonomies like UniprotKB would allow improved identification of interrelationships between measurands and linkage with scientific information for multidisciplinary data science. Hence, laboratory data can further gain in specificity and value. The time has come to lay the basis for safe data exchange in the era of precision diagnostics. A consensus for digital metrology in laboratory medicine will be essential to move forward with health data exchange. Description In this project we define the concept of digital metrology in laboratory medicine and identify the prerequisites for safe data exchange for emerging technologies in the area of precision diagnostics. Scope SNOMED CT is one of the terminology standards that is explored in our project (next to LOINC and NPU). How SNOMED CT will be used The main benefits of SNOMED CT in this context are its multiaxial system and the hierarchical relationships, which facilitate addition of attributes for further specification and identification of interrelationships. Why SNOMED CT will be used Contact More information Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

In July 2013 Brunei became a Member, joining a global effort to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. Brunei In July 2013 Brunei became a Member, joining a global effort to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. Contact Details Ministry of Health Brunei Darussalam Commonwealth Drive Bandar Seri Begawan BB3910 Negara Brunei Darussalam Website: www.moh.gov.bn Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Junaidah Hussin Member Forum: TBD News articles More information about SNOMED CT in Brunei can be accessed at: www.moh.gov.bn Back Learn more Global Patient Set Built from the globally recognized SNOMED CT terminology standard at no cost to users Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Software and tools We develop and operate applications platforms to support our products and services Learn more Document library Access overviews, guides and specifications Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Austria introduces nationwide standard of clinical terminology with membership in SNOMED International Back 6 Mar 2019 Back London, United Kingdom, March 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Austria through ELGA GmbH, “elektronische Gesundheitsakte”, and SNOMED International jointly announce the addition of Austria as the organization’s thirty-seventh Member. With its continued development, Austria’s ELGA electronic health record system enables all eligible users including citizens, patients, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, etc. to gain access to healthcare information. When it comes to establishing and operating a nationwide personal health record, effective and efficient terminology management including the development, administration, maintenance and publishing of clinical terminology is truly a precondition to achieving semantic interoperability. Further, within the European region, the promise of cross-border care and clinical information mobility is believed to be the single most important revolution in healthcare. The role that structured data plays in supporting this vision is critical. 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” states SNOMED International’s CEO, Don Sweete. “We welcome Austria’s membership in the organization and look forward to a future where SNOMED CT’s structured terminology supports the goal of a clinically networked nation for Austria. ”The ELGA GmbH program has been in place since 2009 and is financed by the Austrian Republic, Austria’s 9 Federal States and the Social Insurance Group. Mandated with managing the technical and organizational implementation of its national electronic health record, ELGA recognizes that semantic interoperability within a nationwide electronic patient record can only be achieved by providing standardized terminologies. In order to appropriately address clinical documentation, a plethora of special terms, abbreviations and codes, organized in systems like nomenclatures and classifications is a prerequisite. Dr. Stefan Sabutsch, Head of the SNOMED Release Center Austria and Executive Lead Standards & Usability at ELGA GmbH, emphasizes: "With the introduction of SNOMED CT in Austria, we have taken a further important step in in the field of information and communication technologies in the healthcare sector. Confessing to a nationwide standard of clinical terminology as an integrative part of the Austrian Health Record ELGA shows clearly that the responsible people in the country are absolutely committed to the importance of semantic interoperability.” Sabutsch adds "a clinically validated terminology such as SNOMED CT has great relevance to the Austrian healthcare system and will play a key role in improving the efficiency and quality of the existing healthcare system and benefiting the patients." Austria becomes the 24th Member from Europe, the Middle East and Africa to join SNOMED International, laying the groundwork for increased interoperability across the region. SNOMED CT becomes part of Austria’s national infrastructure as a contributor ensuring the exchange of accurate, relevant and timely information across needed ELGA provider and consumer health information systems. Click here to learn more about Austria’s membership in 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

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

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Global nursing report emphasizes need for digital health competency Back 11 Jul 2025 Back SNOMED International salutes the State of the World’s Nursing 2025 , a recently released report that provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the global nursing workforce. Framed in the context of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development , an “action plan for people, the planet and prosperity,” the nursing report confirms that the 12 policy priorities of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global strategic directions for nursing and midwifery 2025 remain highly relevant for the period 2026-2030. It also identifies five emerging policy priorities in the areas of advanced practice nursing, gender equality, digital health and technology, the climate agenda, and nurses in situations of war and conflict. According to the report, nurses – the largest occupational group in the healthcare sector with about 28 million practitioners worldwide – “must be prepared and fully supported to competently utilize digital technologies across areas of professional practice from education to practice, research and management." SNOMED International has long supported this goal, initially informally, and then more formally beginning in 2020, when SNOMED International and the International Council of Nurses (ICN) announced an agreement to work together to integrate the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) into SNOMED CT in a systematic way. The formal collaboration followed ICN’s review of its role in health informatics globally, enabling them to develop a strategy for supporting nursing globally. In 2021, SNOMED International released the first ICNP SNOMED CT Nursing Practice Reference Set . The reference set, which is updated and released annually, helps ensure that nursing remains connected to the larger health information landscape. Nursing content in SNOMED CT also helps to ensure that SNOMED CT continues to adequately reflect global nursing practice; that information collected using ICNP can link to SNOMED CT encoded records and be shared with other healthcare professionals to support care; that nursing care can be captured in a standardized way, reducing inconsistencies; and that the sharing of ICNP-based information can be facilitated in a standardised way to support delivery of patient care, usage for research purposes and participation in health policy making. “The inclusion of nursing content in SNOMED CT greatly augments its value and utility,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “It also supports the level of granularity nursing needs while connecting the profession to the broader healthcare community.” SNOMED International supports digital health in nursing practice in other ways as well. In 2024, ICN President Dr Pamela Cipriano (now outgoing), who is also a professor of nursing and public policy at the University of Virginia’s School of Nursing and Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, delivered the James Read Memorial Lecture at the SNOMED CT Expo 2024 in Korea. Dr Cipriano, in addition to focusing on how healthcare data fuels nursing care improvement and innovation, discussed how the ICN had adopted a position statement on digital health transformation and nursing practice in which it called for a new terminology standard that facilitates the representation and comparison of nursing domains worldwide. “Nurses have long been involved in the informatics world and that may not be apparent because that work is usually shrouded with what’s happening in a team or in an organization, but nurses have really come to the forefront in terms of telehealth – being app developers, creating health tracking mechanisms and creating the interface for and use of a lot of devices,” Dr Cipriano said in her address. “Nurses are typically on the front and the back ends of the use of most major technology.” SNOMED International also hosts a Nursing Clinical Reference Group , a community of practice for nursing-focused clinicians where participants can discuss issues and influence the development and improvement of content in SNOMED CT. The group ensures that the requirements of the international nursing community are incorporated into the content of SNOMED CT International Release and supports the development of nursing and nursing documentation derivative products. Learn more about the SNOMED International - International Council of Nurses collaboration . Learn more about the ICNP reference set. View SNOMED CT and nursing related videos on our YouTube channel . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe