RACSEL collaboration strengthens digital health transformation and interoperability across Latin America and the Caribbean Back 17 Oct 2024 Back SNOMED International and the Chile-based National Center for Health Information Systems ( Centro Nacional en Sistemas de Información en Salud - CENS ) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen and support digital health transformation and enable regional healthcare interoperability in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). CENS is the executing agency of RACSEL (Latin American and Caribbean Digital Health Network). The MOU positions SNOMED International as a strategic partner to RACSEL, a collaborative network across LAC. Collaboration goals The goal of the MOU is to support the implementation of regional projects to strengthen the capacity of LAC countries in health management by promoting digital transformation in health, focusing on developing a regional agreement for cross-border digital health services, and strengthening the health information exchange model implemented in the region through the adoption of standards, architectures, governance and protocols, and data exchange and interoperability protocols. SNOMED International’s role in the collaboration will include supporting health data interoperability and the implementation of SNOMED CT and other health data standards and providing education through webinars and other educational offerings. The organization will also participate in various activities to help promote health data interoperability initiatives across the LAC region. The organizations will work together to develop guidelines and protocols for the exchange of public health data and care information, including semantic and syntactic components, and to support participating countries in their adoption. They will also collaborate on developing architectural components and security frameworks for the exchange of healthcare, public health and telehealth data, and on identifying other areas where effective and practical cooperation may be possible. “The alliance with SNOMED International will allow us to consolidate our efforts in the exchange of health information,” said Alejandra Piermarini, the coordinator of the RACSEL network. “This will not only improve the quality of health services in the region, but also strengthen our capacity to respond to public health emergencies," she added. For Ms Piermarini, "interoperability and regional collaboration are essential to transform digital health in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Regarding the agreement with SNOMED, the executive director of CENS, May Chomali, stated that: “As CENS, we are committed to the continuous improvement of health systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. That is why we are pleased to establish this collaboration with SNOMED, because with its global experience and our regional initiatives we will more strongly promote innovation and interoperability in digital health in our region, which has major health challenges.” SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete describes the agreement as another step toward realizing the promise of digital health globally and a complementary addition to a number of projects in digitally maturing regions that the organization has participated in over the past few years, such as our work with the Bahmni Coalition . As a result of that initiative to integrate SNOMED CT into the Bahmni Electronic Medical Record , which is designed for use in low-resource, digitally maturing regions, clinicians, researchers and hospital administrators can use SNOMED CT in their health facilities to record diagnosis and other clinical data, as well as for reporting and Clinical Decision Support use-cases. “SNOMED International has much to contribute to the RACSEL and CENS collaboration,” Don Sweete said. “We look forward to harnessing our knowledge and expertise to support our efforts with CENS in RACSEL to enable health data interoperability throughout the Latin American and Caribbean regions.” SNOMED International offers a number of products and services for our Spanish-speaking Members and other users, including the Spanish language version of the SNOMED CT International Edition, which is released twice a year; educational offerings such as the Spanish Foundations in SNOMED CT course; and an online space where users can communicate with other Spanish speakers and share their knowledge and expertise. Additionally, the organization makes available at no cost a number of other open products and services, including the Global Patient Set , a managed collection of existing SNOMED CT reference sets; the International Patient Summary Terminology , 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; educational resources and webinars ; numerous reference subsets and maps to and from SNOMED CT to other code systems, classifications or terminologies; and tools and software to support SNOMED CT adoption and use. About RACSEL The Latin American and Caribbean Digital Health Network (RACSEL) is a collaborative initiative that brings together countries from Latin America and the Caribbean. Its main objective is to promote digital transformation in the health sector. RACSEL aims to facilitate the sharing of digital health experiences and knowledge across the region. It also seeks to promote the use of standards, tools, technologies and best practices, focusing on cross-border interoperability. The network is made up of 15 countries. Visit racsel.org for more information. About CENS CENS aims to improve people's health care by promoting and adopting information technologies in the public and private sectors. To accomplish its mission, it promotes interoperability and the creation of an enabling environment by energizing the ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship in digital health, promoting the development of human capital, and certifying platforms and digital solutions to health needs. CENS has worked as the executive agency supporting RACSEL, leading the implementation of LACPASS , a regional project involving 16 countries to achieve cross-border interoperability that aims to reduce gaps in digital health, in the LAC region. CENS is currently implementing a second project with the goal of creating a secondary data space for use in epidemiological surveillance. Countries that are participating in the projects are also SNOMED International Member countries (Argentina , Chile , El Salvador , Jamaica and Uruguay ); SNOMED International collaboration partners HL7 International and the World Health Organization are also CENS strategic partners. Visit cens.cl 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

In January 2016 Switzerland became a Member, joining a global effort to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. Switzerland In January 2016 Switzerland 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 eHealth Suisse Koordinationsorgan eHealth Bund und Kantone Schwarzenburgstrasse 157, CH-3003 Bern Switzerland Website: www.e-health-suisse.ch Email: info@e-health-suisse.ch Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Pero Grgic Member Forum: Pero Grgic and Stefanie Neuenschwander News articles More information on eHealth Suisse at: https://www.e-health-suisse.ch The Federal Department of Health (FOPH/BAG) represents Switzerland in dealings with SNOMED International. Together with the cantons, the FOPH is responsible for the health of the Swiss population and for developing national healthcare policy. The FOPH is also the national authority representing Switzerland in international organisations and vis-à-vis other states in matters related to health. The FOPH has directed the management of SNOMED CT and the National Release Centre (NRC) in Switzerland to eHealth Suisse. In its capacity as NRC, eHealth Suisse is responsible for issuing licences on behalf of SNOMED International, and serves as the central point of contact for questions related to the use of SNOMED CT in Switzerland. eHealth Suisse is a coordinating body with a secretariat charged with ensuring that the various eHealth projects in Switzerland are goal-oriented and strategy-compliant, and that synergies between the projects are harnessed. The SNOMED CT reference health terminology will be an important component of the new electronic patient dossier, due to be introduced in Switzerland from 2020 at the latest, also in terms of semantic interoperability. Additionally, eHealth Switzerland manages a semantics expert group whose job is to help define and implement a national strategy for handling semantic standards. More information about SNOMED CT in Switzerland can be accessed here: https://www.e-health-suisse.ch/technik-semantik/semantische-interoperabilitaet/snomed-ct Affiliated licenses can be obtained at https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/#/landing/CH ---- Das Bundesamt für Gesundheit (BAG) vertritt die Schweiz gegenüber der SNOMED International. Es ist - zusammen mit den Kantonen - verantwortlich für die Gesundheit der Schweizer Bevölkerung und für die Entwicklung der nationalen Gesundheitspolitik. Zudem vertritt das BAG als nationale Behörde die Schweiz in Gesundheitsbelangen in internationalen Organisationen und gegenüber anderen Staaten. Für die Verwaltung von SNOMED CT und Führen des National Release Centers (NRC) in der Schweiz, wurde „eHealth Suisse“ vom BAG beauftragt. „eHealth Suisse“ als NRC ist verantwortlich für die Herausgabe von Lizenzen im Namen der SNOMED International und dient als zentrale Anlaufstelle für Fragen rund um die Nutzung von SNOMED CT in der Schweiz. Das Koordinationsorgan „eHealth Suisse“ stellt durch eine Geschäftsstelle sicher, dass die einzelnen eHealth Projekte in der Schweiz zielorientiert und strategiekonform sind und dass die Synergien zwischen den Projekten genutzt werden. Für das kommende elektronische Patientendossier, welches in der Schweiz spätestens ab 2020 eingeführt werden soll, ist SNOMED CT als Referenzterminologie ein wichtiger Baustein, hin zur semantischen Interoperabilität. Mit Hilfe der von „eHealth Suisse“ betreuten Expertengruppe Semantik, soll zudem eine nationale Strategie zum Umgang mit semantischen Standards definiert und umgesetzt werden. Mehr Informationen über „eHealth Suisse“ unter: http://www.e-health-suisse.ch/index.html?lang=de Mehr Informationen zum Bundesamt für Gesundheit unter: https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/de/home.html Mehr Informationen zum Bundesamt für Gesundheit und deren eHealth-Aktivitäten unter: To be confirmed. 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

United Arab Emirates joins SNOMED International to drive achievement of health strategy Back 26 Oct 2021 Back SNOMED International and the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health and Prevention are pleased to announce that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has become SNOMED International’s 41st Member. The UAE is the fourth Middle East country, following Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, to join SNOMED International, further extending the SNOMED CT use, implementation experience and collaboration opportunities for the region. Effective as of May 2021, UAE users can register to request a free license for use of SNOMED CT by visiting the country’s National Release Center website. In addition to the many benefits the country can realize through implementing SNOMED CT, its use will also support the UAE in achieving its 2017-2021 strategic healthcare objectives and beyond. In a recent Healthcare IT News article , Ali Al Ajmi, the UAE’s Director of Digital Health at the Ministry of Health and Prevention, indicated that the use of SNOMED CT will improve functionality and coordination between health facilities and contribute to enhancing the exchange of organizational data among the country’s health-related organizations in both the public and private sectors, including insurance companies, healthcare providers and governmental organizations. In the article, Al Ajmi added: “The electronically stored detailed data in this system would help increase access of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies across the UAE to electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs).” The benefits of becoming a Member Joining SNOMED International provides the country’s healthcare institutions and organizations no-cost access to SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology and a recognized critical element for the electronic exchange of health data. Use of SNOMED CT provides distinct benefits for the country’s spectrum of stakeholder groups, ranging from policy-makers to researchers and knowledge producers, implementers, vendors, care providers and patients/citizens. It enables Members to ensure that high-quality clinical information is available to all stakeholders in their country, and supports policy-makers by enabling them to make more informed policy and management decisions. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete extended a warm welcome to the United Arab Emirates. “In line with the United Arab Emirate’s health strategy, the addition of SNOMED CT will help strengthen the implementation of effective health information systems through global standards,” he said. Mr. Sweete went on to say, “As the SNOMED CT footprint in the Middle East grows, the greater the opportunity for sharing region-specific lessons learned, and the greater the potential for collaboration.” Founded in 2007 by nine charter nations, SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns and maintains SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. With over 350,000 concepts, SNOMED CT is not just a coding system of diagnosis. It also covers clinical findings like signs and symptoms and tens of thousands of surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Also within the scope of SNOMED CT are observables and those concepts representing body structures, organisms, substances, pharmaceutical products, physical objects, physical forces, specimens, etc. needed to be recorded in or around the health record. With SNOMED CT, users can record patient data more accurately, and exchange patient data both within the healthcare team and with patients, both locally and across borders, to improve patient outcomes. Further, SNOMED CT can be used in health data and analytics platforms for clinical analytics, population analytics, management analytics, clinical research, applied research, and other research activities to improve health care. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

The Monarch Initiative has signed a five-year collaboration agreement with SNOMED International. SNOMED and the Monarch Initiative collaborate to develop two-way maps for HPO The Monarch Initiative has signed a five-year collaboration agreement with SNOMED International. Back 2 Feb 2023 Back London, United Kingdom and Colorado, United States – The Monarch Initiative has signed a five-year collaboration agreement with SNOMED International to develop maps from the clinical terminology SNOMED CT to Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO - a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities encountered in human disease) and to HPO from SNOMED CT. HPO is a flagship product of the Monarch Initiative , a U.S. National Institutes of Health -supported international consortium dedicated to semantic integration of biomedical and model organism data with the ultimate goal of improving biomedical research, and an integrative data and analytic platform connecting phenotypes to genotypes across species, bridging basic and applied research with semantics-based analysis. It is also a central component of one of the 13 driver projects in the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health strategic roadmap. 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 (EHR) and facilitate sharing, decision support and analytics, to support safe and effective health information exchange. As part of the agreement, the organizations will work together to develop mapping conventions by which both maps will be created, along with use cases. Both organizations will also collaborate on quality assurance, promoting the maps to their respective stakeholders and defining and agreeing upon an ongoing maintenance and updating process and policy for the developed maps. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete explains that the collaboration is a natural next step for the two organizations, both of which have recognized and discussed the steadily increasing interest in genomics over the past few years. “The development of maps to and from both ontologies will be extremely beneficial for both clinical interoperability and research in a domain that holds so much promise for the way we understand and treat hereditary and genetic conditions,” he said. “And as the largest global clinical terminology, SNOMED CT is well-positioned to enable advances in this domain.” Melissa Haendel, PhD, is Chief Research Informatics Officer at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, one of the research institutions that’s spearheading the work of the Monarch Initiative. “Through the Monarch Initiative, our team is categorizing our collective knowledge and standardizing rare disease diagnoses worldwide,” said Dr. Haendel. “This work is also allowing researchers to globally compare disease phenotypes, as well as species, which can tell us a lot about how genetic defects affect humans.” Media Inquiries: Kelly KuruSNOMED 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

Disaster hazard research conducted by Australia’s Monash University leads to new SNOMED CT content Back 19 Jan 2024 Back Upon receiving a request from SNOMED International Member, Australia , the organization recently incorporated new and relevant climate and natural disaster concepts in the International Edition of SNOMED CT. Fulfilment of the request exemplifies the multifaceted and collaborative processes that drive the ongoing development and improvement of SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. Signalling the effectiveness of the content development process, it is the users, Members, researchers, clinicians and other stakeholders that identify gaps and work together with SNOMED International to discuss, model and include relevant content in SNOMED CT. The request for inclusion of climate content in SNOMED CT was driven by the findings of a study titled Evaluating the representation of disaster hazards in SNOMED CT: gaps and opportunities , published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , in which researchers from Australia’s Monash University examined gaps in clinical terminologies available to healthcare professionals during disaster-related events. In particular, it found meteorological, hydrological, extraterrestrial, geohazard, environmental, technological and societal content required coverage in SNOMED CT. The study, which mapped the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction-International Science Council ’s Hazard Information Profiles to SNOMED CT, provided a list of concepts in which climate and disaster related content fell short in SNOMED CT. For example, research revealed that SNOMED CT lacked content related to “heatwave” and “drought,” phenomena that have intensified due to climate change and that have significant impacts on human health, migration patterns and armed conflict situations globally. In response, approximately 90 percent of the requested missing concepts identified in the study and submitted by Australia’s SNOMED CT National Release Centre (NRC) have been included in SNOMED CT. “SNOMED International recognizes the work of researchers who authored this report along with the Australian NRC for requesting the addition of this content,” says SNOMED International Chief Terminologist Dr. James Case. “As an agile standards development organization, this is a great example of how we engage and work with Members to prioritize and respond to their content requests. This ensures clinical and environmental changes on the ground, including promotion of relevant content to the International Edition, are addressed as quickly as possible.” With SNOMED International’s move to releasing the International Edition monthly, the content will be available to users more quickly than in the past, when the International Edition was published twice a year. The addition of climate and natural disaster related content received, reviewed and quality assured by SNOMED International in late June of 2023 is a prime use case for the move to frequent releases, as was the rapid inclusion of COVID-19 content at the beginning of the global pandemic in 2020. The study also noted the major role that nursing, the largest professional group in healthcare, plays in defining the health indicators that will be important in the overall monitoring of health interventions to support communities in disaster mitigation, preparation, response and recovery, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. The 2021 integration of the International Classification for Nursing Practice into SNOMED CT and release as a reference set will help providers and policymakers better plan, implement and evaluate the effectiveness and impact of policies, procedures and actions related to a broad array of disaster events. 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. 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

European Union drives use of standardized terminology in Member States with funding for SNOMED CT Back 2 Mar 2022 Back At the end of 2021, the European Health and Digital Executive Agency took a firm step towards increasing the semantic interoperability, re-use and the cross border exchange of health data. The European Union 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). The goal of this initiative is to allow the residents of participating member states to easily access and share their own health data in their own language with healthcare providers as they travel in the European Union. According to the European Commission, the objective of the agreement is to facilitate the use of a standardized terminology to express clinical meanings for clinicians and to benefit the citizens of the European Union. An important step toward building stronger, more resilient and accessible health systems, it also attempts to better manage the fragmentation and vulnerabilities of disparate health systems that were revealed throughout the COVID-19 crisis, noted SNOMED CT Expo 2021 Keynote Speaker Dr Andrzej Ryś, Director responsible for Health Systems, Medical Products and Innovation at the Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, European Commission. “There is currently a fragmentation of standards used to express clinical concepts, which hampers the semantic interoperability of health data sharing and the ability of the European health data space from reaching its full potential,” Dr.Ryś shared with the SNOMED CT Expo 2021 audience. One of the benefits cited in the agreement is SNOMED International’s approach to translation. Currently, entire or part translations of SNOMED CT are available in a number of languages and dialects, including United States English, United Kingdom English, Australian English, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Lithuanian, Swedish and French. Translations in other SNOMED International Member countries and elsewhere are also in progress. Germany, which also became a Member in 2021, has formed a working group that includes Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg to launch a joint German-language reference translation of SNOMED CT. SNOMED International’s translation tooling can also be used to support additional translations of SNOMED CT by Member countries/territories or groups of Members that share a common language. Ahead of formal membership by France, a collaborative group formed of representatives from France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Canada are working to develop a global French translation of SNOMED CT. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete hails the agreement as a creative and effective approach to encouraging the adoption of a common health terminology across a diverse group of countries, each with its own language and degree of digital health readiness. “This agreement falls in line with the SNOMED CT Case for Investment , which outlines why countries invest resources in the clinical terminology and how SNOMED CT meets the clinical terminology suitability requirements of the EU community,” said Sweete. “Partnering with an organization such as the European Health and Digital Executive Agency facilitates the adoption and implementation of SNOMED CT across Europe and significantly contributes to our goal of a single global language of health and supporting patients and citizens to better manage their own health.” To bridge implementation, Sweete also notes that countries adopting SNOMED CT are supported by SNOMED International’s implementation services and resources, easing the process of adopting the clinical terminology and optimizing the benefits it offers. Founded in 2007 by nine charter nations, which has now grown to serve 42 Members globally, SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns and maintains SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. With over 350,000 concepts, SNOMED CT is not just a coding system of diagnosis. It also covers clinical findings like signs and symptoms and tens of thousands of surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic procedures. Also within the scope of SNOMED CT are observables and those concepts representing body structures, organisms, substances, pharmaceutical products, physical objects, physical forces, specimens, etc. needed to be recorded in or around the health record. For more information, visit www.snomed.org or email 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

A new chapter powered by a global coalition: SNOMED International releases its 2020 Annual Report Back 20 Jun 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. 2020 has been a year like no other in the world’s recent history. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the health and well-being of a global community, and, in doing so, has necessitated shifts in the way the world conducts business, engages with colleagues, and, at a personal level, connects with family and friends. The continued dedication and service of healthcare providers globally, despite the new demands placed on them as a result of the pandemic, cannot be overstated. SNOMED International’s 2020 Annual Report , “A new chapter powered by a global coalition,” demonstrates the vast breadth of progress made possible by the will of a growing and committed community. The start of the year was marked by the delivery of necessary COVID-19 terminology to equip healthcare systems globally in their management of the pandemic, an activity which continued steadily throughout the year. Further, 2020 marked the first year of a new five-year strategy, the focus of which tackled many imperatives for the organization’s product and services enhancement and innovation. The organization continued to strengthen its connections with Members through refreshed statements of the value SNOMED CT delivers to its complement of stakeholders, further underlining the case for investment in SNOMED CT — a product uniquely positioned to support innovation in medicine with artificial intelligence and personalized medicine playing an increasingly prevalent role in safe and informed care delivery. As SNOMED International continues to satisfy the mission and vision that guide its new strategy, the organization is energized by the desire for innovation and commitment to excellence observed from Members, governance bodies and the SNOMED CT Community of Practice. SNOMED International is proud of its collective achievements in 2020 and looks forward to sharing them with the global SNOMED CT community. Read SNOMED International’s 2020 Annual Report and contact info@snomed.org with inquiries. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Andorrà takes big step towards interoperability with SNOMED CT adoption Back 15 Jun 2023 Back SNOMED International has welcomed Andorra, a small, mountainous European country situated between France and Spain to its growing global organization. Andorra will join a vibrant community of 47 Members globally. Andorra will be represented at SNOMED International by Andorran Health Care System ( Servei Andorrà d’Atenció Sanitària , SAAS.) SAAS is a para-public management health system with regulated agreements and financing subsidized by social security through co-payment. It administers and manages the country’s publicly administered and funded healthcare resources, including one hospital, 11 primary care centres, a nursing home, and a school health service. With a population of just under 80,000, Andorra’s official language is Catalan. Andorra has embarked on a digital transformation project with the goal of digitizing services across the entire government and its national health system. This project highlights the need to take a comprehensive, intersectoral and interdisciplinary approach to health care, ensure better patient outcomes, and consolidate the system. Andorra is in the process of creating interoperable frameworks that support the meaningful sharing of health information. The adoption and use of standard terminologies within the electronic health record (EHR) are fundamental to these movements. Andorra’s health service began its digital journey in 2004 with a project to create an EHR system. Since 2017, according to law, all healthcare centers and professionals that are part of the public health system must report to the EHR the actions carried out on behalf of patients and, in general, all the other annotations that must be made to the EHR. The country’s National 2020 Health Plan highlights the need to build a national patient-centered digital health system. Andorra’s adoption of SNOMED CT aligns with and supports its digital transformation goals. SNOMED CT, a comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology, captures the care of individuals in an EHR and facilitates sharing, decision support and analytics, to support safe and effective health information exchange. “Andorra as a country is pleased to be a SNOMED International Member,” said Helena Mas Santuré, Andorra’s Health Minister. “We are looking to strengthen our health system and now our efforts are focused on digital transformation, because we are completely convinced that this step is essential in the development of an up-to-date efficient health system.” We are equally excited to welcome Andorra to SNOMED International, said SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete, adding, “We look forward to working with the country to implement SNOMED CT. Andorra’s commitment to making interoperability a key enabler across the entire government gives the country a leg up in terms of understanding the benefits of an international healthcare standard such as SNOMED CT and will serve as a guiding beacon as they implement and adopt the clinical terminology.” Visit Andorra’s Member page on the SNOMED International website to view the country’s representatives to the Member Forum and the General Assembly. Media inquiries Andorra: Silvia Bonet Perot Email: sbonet@saas.ad Maria Rendon Email: maria_rendon@govern.ad Rosa Vidal Email: Rosa_Vidal@govern.ad 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

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

Valentia Technologies Back Valentia Technologies Vendor Overview Valentia Technologies develops and implements innovative software solutions and services that transform the way healthcare is provided outside of hospital. Our integrated suite of applications enables new models of joined-up converged care that address many of the mounting challenges facing healthcare today: rising demand, escalating costs, improving quality outcomes and accountability, and the need for greater. 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 INDICI (Patient Management System - Primary Care) New Zealand - Australia - Ireland - Fiji Spectrum (National Telehealth System) - New Zealand -> Urgent & Unplanned Care GPOOH ( General Practitioner Out of Hours) Ireland CareMonX ( Emergency Medical Services ) - New Zealand, Australia, Ireland Scope of services Analytics, Chronic disease, Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, Diagnostic imaging, Drug, EHR, EMR, Lab, Middleware, Oncology, Order sets, Pharmacy, Telehealth Downloadable documents Valentia Technologies - Valentia Technology Office Head Office Valentia Technologies Limited Unit A6 Nutgrove Office Park Dublin 14 Ireland Dublin Leinster Dublin 14 Ireland http://valentiatech.com Contact details Ahmed Javad President Technical Services +64 988-918-88 ahmed.javad@gmail.com Regions where operational Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, Oceania

PHAST Back PHAST Vendor Overview Leading national interoperability provider, PHAST offers services aimed at improving healthcare data exchange. PHAST provides metathesauri which bring together coded medical vocabularies to enable interoperability within healthcare information systems. PHAST contributes to international efforts related to semantic interoperability and health data exchange standards. It sponsors the “Pathology and Laboratory Medicine” (PaLM) domain of IHE International, and is the correspondent of IHE to SNOMED for the IHE SNOMED CT free set. It contributes to various Work Groups of HL7 International, leads the introduction of new resources for order catalogs in the FHIR standard and is one of the primary editors of the International Patient Summary (IPS) standard. Phast also played a key role in the Trillium II Project funded by the European Commission to provide “International Patient Summary” standards in support to better patient care across borders. Phast is chairing SNOMED International “French Translation Project Group”, which aims at a single French translation produced cooperatively by NRCs of French speaking member countries. 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 PHAST encourages the creation of a more effective and interoperable French healthcare IT system by easing the integration and implementation of SNOMED CT into vendor applications. As part of this strategy, PHAST has built a new service, IOct, to enable care institutions to encode their clinical information as SNOMED CT concepts in a way that can be processed automatically by their applications. PHAST has brought a set of initiatives to support SNOMED CT implementation: Translation of more than 5,000 SNOMED CT concepts. Implementation of a French browser which makes possible for the healthcare professionals to explore the terminology online. Production of interoperable metathesauri which include SNOMED CT content in the field of medication (IOmed), medical devices (IOmd) and laboratory (IOlab) workflows. Organization of training sessions for software vendors and healthcare institutions. Creation of a FHIR terminology server, STS, which delivers terminologies like SNOMED CT and LOINC, as well as concept maps and value sets leveraging various international and national terminologies. STS supports a full implementation of the Expression Constraint Language (ECL) for defining SNOMED CT value sets by intension. Scope of services Clinical documentation, Drug, EHR, EMR, Lab, Order sets, Pharmacy Downloadable documents PHAST - Promoting Healthcare Interoperability Office 25 rue du Louvre Paris Paris 75001 France www.phast.fr Contact details +33-786-160591 contact@phast.fr Regions where operational Europe

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