Mongolia became a Member in 2025, joining a global effort to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. Mongolia Mongolia became a Member in 2025, joining a global effort to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. Contact Details Address: TBA Website: TBA Email: TBA Appointed Representatives General Assembly: TBA Member Forum: TBA News articles Mongolia is the twelfth APAC country to join SNOMED International, further extending the SNOMED CT use, implementation experience and collaboration opportunities for the region. 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

The Joint Initiative Council: International Collaboration for Digital Health Standards Back 11 Apr 2019 Back It is widely accepted that the adoption of standards is a foundational element essential to effective digital health. Today’s health care demands extensive sharing of information amongst clinicians, across organizations and geographies, and also with the patient, all of which would be impossible without the use of standards. With the increasing globalization of digital health comes the equally increasing need to use internationally developed standards. International digital health standards are produced and supported by a relatively small number of international Standards Development Organizations (SDO’s). In the past, these SDO’s operated independently resulting in standards that often overlapped and competed for acceptance. In 2007 the Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization (known as the JIC) was formed to provide a forum for dialogue and collaboration amongst an initial group of 3 of SDO’s. Having grown to include 9 SDOs representing the most prominent in the industry, current membership includes ISO/TC215, HL7 International, CEN/TC251, CDISC, IHE International, DICOM, SNOMED International, GS1, and the PCH Alliance. As stated in its Charter, the JIC is a council of equals, with each member SDO taking a turn to chair the JIC for a 2-year term. This Chair rotation is key to the JIC’s stability and sustainability over time. While the JIC undertakes a myriad of functions, the most important is as a forum for regular collaboration amongst the senior leadership of the member SDO’s. “This exchange of strategies, priorities and initiatives provides assurance to the digital health industry worldwide that SDO’s are committed to ongoing dialogue, and wherever possible, joint initiatives that reduce overlapping efforts and fill needed gaps”, said Michael Nusbaum, who represents IHE and is the current JIC Chair. “Users of our standards, including governments, health providers and vendors, welcome this collaboration as a signal of cooperation and stability at the international level”. In addition, the JIC has undertaken a number of specific joint initiatives that have led to a more harmonized approach to the development of standards. Examples of JIC successes include standards for harmonized data types, functional models for electronic and personal health records, a tool that collects and resolves standards definitions and terms, a standards set and associated guidance for implementing a patient summary record, and standards for the identification of medicinal products. Currently, the JIC is also helping to coordinate cross-SDO participation in the development of international genomics standards. While each of the member SDO’s have their particular strengths and capabilities, the JIC serves as an important vehicle to foster both the spirit of collaboration as well as cross-SDO development activities, leading to a stronger and more robust international standards community that supports digital health. To learn more about the JIC and how it serves and adds value to the global digital health community, visit the website at www.jointinitiativecouncil.org . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Karlien Hollanders James Read Memorial Lecture Panelist Karlien Hollanders 'How ONC is advancing nationwide interoperability' October 26, 2023 (09:00-10:00 EDT/ 13:00-14:00 UTC) (Sponsored by West Coast Informatics ) Micky Tripathi is the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, where he leads the formulation of the federal health IT strategy and coordinates federal health IT policies, standards, programs, and investments. Learn about how ONC is leveraging work across policy, standards and technology to further advance nationwide interoperability. Micky will give the latest updates about how ONC’s Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI), and information sharing policies are helping to deliver safe, effective, patient-centered care across the nation. Dr. Tripathi has over 20 years of experience across the health IT landscape. He most recently served as Chief Alliance Officer for Arcadia, a health care data and software company focused on population health management and value-based care, the project manager of the Argonaut Project, an industry collaboration to accelerate the adoption of FHIR, and a board member of HL7, the Sequoia Project, the CommonWell Health Alliance, and the CARIN Alliance. Dr. Tripathi served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC), a non-profit health IT advisory and clinical data analytics company. He was also the founding President and CEO of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, a statewide HIE partnered with the Regenstrief Institute, an Executive Advisor to investment firm LRVHealth, and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He holds a PhD in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University, and an AB in political science from Vassar College. Prior to receiving his PhD, he was a Presidential Management Fellow and a senior operations research analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, DC, for which he received the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal. Back Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

IHTSDO releases Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT Back 30 Apr 2015 Back IHTSDO is launching an extensive programme of vendor engagement underpinned by a comprehensive Vendor Engagement Strategy. As part of that, IHTSDO is pleased to publish its Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT. The guide is targeted at people engaged in the development of electronic health record (EHR) systems and other related services and applications in healthcare information technology. It will also be of interest to a broader audience including anyone engaged in designing, developing, procuring, deploying, configuring or managing EHR systems and services. The Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT provides an informative practical introduction to SNOMED CT focused primarily on the needs of vendors and developers of EHRs. It identifies key benefits for vendors arising from implementing SNOMED CT; provides a brief description of the key characteristics of SNOMED CT; acknowledges that the diverse nature of EHR systems, as well as the wide scope of SNOMED CT, means that there can be no universal approach for implementing SNOMED CT in systems; introduces ten ways in which SNOMED CT can be used in EHR systems; discusses potential SNOMED CT implementation strategies; covers a number of considerations that arise out of embedding SNOMED CT into an EHR system; describes the three types of license that govern use of SNOMED CT; provides links to many of the key resources for further learning about SNOMED CT, and offers high-level guidance on ways to deliver a positive user experience of SNOMED CT as part of an EHR system. The Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT provides an authoritative introduction and points readers to other SNOMED CT documentation for detailed information. Basic information about SNOMED CT including its benefits can be found in the SNOMED CT Starter Guide. In-depth technical information can be found in the Technical Implementation Guide and other guides. All these and others are available from the SNOMED CT Document Library. The link to the Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT, other SNOMED CT documentation and the SNOMED CT Document Library are below: Vendor Introduction Starter Guide Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

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 January 2014 Portugal became a Member, joining a global effort to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. Portugal In January 2014 Portugal 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 Centro de Terminologias Clínicas em Portugal / Clinical Terminologies Centre (CTC) Av. da República, n.o 61, 6o 1064-032 Lisboa Portugal Website: www.ctc.min-saude.pt Email: ctcpt@spms.min-saude.pt Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Cátia Sousa Pinto Member Forum: Filipe Mealha and Sara Russo News articles More information about SNOMED CT in Portugal can be accessed here: www.ctc.min-saude.pt Affiliated licenses can be obtained at https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/#/landing/PT 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

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

American Dental Association Back American Dental Association Clinical Partner The American Dental Association (ADA) is not-for-profit and the largest professional association for dentistry in the United States, representing more than 157,000 dentist members. It is the premier source of oral health information in the United States, if not the entire world, and has advocated for the public’s health as well as promoted the art and science of dentistry since 1859. It has developed and continues to develop the SNODENT dental diagnostic code set. Additional information In 2012, ADA and IHTSDO signed a Cooperation Agreement which focused on aligning the content of SNODENT and SNOMED CT, where appropriate, and also saw the instigation of the IHTSDO International Dentistry Special Interest Group (SIG), now called the Dentistry Clinical Reference Group . This Cooperation Agreement was updated to a Collaboration Agreement in April 2016 focusing on agreed joint work, including: Development of a SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Subset Release and maintenance of this SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Subset Ongoing provision of Subject Matter Experts by ADA Support for maintenance and updating of the linkage between SNOMED CT and SNODENT at respective releases The SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Refset is now released and updated annually in line with the July release of SNOMED CT. It is worth noting that the Dentistry Clinical Reference Group has also produced an Odontogram refset which is also available through SNOMED International and aligns with SNODENT where appropriate. These refsets have been included in the scope of SNOMED International's Global Patient Set . Press Release: April 2016: New agreement between ADA and SNOMED International Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Te Aho o Te Kahu (Cancer Control Agency) in collaboration with Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora in New Zealand is designing national standards for sharing cancer data across the healthcare system. This presentation will focus on the molecular and immunohistochemistry aspects of this work, which support the sharing of ancillary study results from the pathology labs to medical oncologists, haematologists, and radiation oncologists. These test results are crucial in supporting the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients. We will describe our unique approach to modelling these genetic test results that supports the appropriate level of detail required by both structured pathology reports and cancer treatment clinicians. Back View Map Te Aho o Te Kahu (Cancer Control Agency) Modelling Molecular and Immunohistochemistry Tests for Cancer Care Read More Country / Region APAC Tags Clinical Practice, Data analytics, Data quality, Genomics, Innovation, Research Te Aho o Te Kahu (Cancer Control Agency) in collaboration with Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora in New Zealand is designing national standards for sharing cancer data across the healthcare system. This presentation will focus on the molecular and immunohistochemistry aspects of this work, which support the sharing of ancillary study results from the pathology labs to medical oncologists, haematologists, and radiation oncologists. These test results are crucial in supporting the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients. We will describe our unique approach to modelling these genetic test results that supports the appropriate level of detail required by both structured pathology reports and cancer treatment clinicians. Description CanShare is a national project, developed by Te Aho o Te Kahu (Cancer Control Agency) in collaboration with Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora in New Zealand, to share cancer data using SNOMED CT and HL7 FHIR. The CanShare team is developing SNOMED CT enabled datasets to collect and share cancer data, including structured pathology requests and reports, genetic testing, surgical notes, systemic anti-cancer therapy, radiation oncology treatment, cancer registries, screening and more. Scope SNOMED CT was selected for a number of reasons. Firstly it is both a New Zealand national standard and an international standard. Secondly, it is the only terminology with the breadth and depth to standardise the wide range of cancer data that needs to be shared. Thirdly, SNOMED CT's semantic definitions enable advanced use of the data, including data reuse, data analytics and clinical decision support. How SNOMED CT will be used SNOMED CT value sets have been developed for a range of cancer-related data, including cancer types, morphologies, body sites, observables, test results, cancer grading, staging, prognostic factors, scoring, treatment intents, disease responses, and more. Observable entity and clinical finding templates are used to author new, fully defined molecular and immunohistochemistry tests and results (respectively). This includes gene mutations, gene amplifications, genetic rearrangements and mismatch repair deficiency. Our use of SNOMED CT is driven by clinical use cases, including sharing structured pathology reports, systemic anti-cancer therapy care plans, radiation oncology treatment and surgical notes. SNOMED CT is being used as: * A reference terminology to integrate data from different data silos and share clinical information between healthcare providers. * An interface terminology in vendor systems (using the CanShare language reference set), and * A source of semantic definitions for data analytics (using ECL queries on the New Zealand Health Terminology Service, NZHTS). 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

SNOMED International publishes its 2018 Annual Report Back 2 Jul 2019 Back Since the date of issue, this information is now out of date and has been archived. It has been made available for reference. The Annual Report outlines the organization’s activities and achievements in 2018. It includes the accomplishments of the organization through the lens of the organization’s strategic directions, as well as a message from the organization’s leadership and governance representatives. The Report includes the contributions of each line of business towards the fulfillment of the organization’s 2015-2020 corporate strategy, including business functions and financial statements. SNOMED International has published its Annual Report 2018, accessible here . Please direct all inquiries to 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

The United States representative to SNOMED International is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on behalf of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). United States The United States representative to SNOMED International is the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on behalf of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Contact Details National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health Department of Health and Human Services 8600 Rockville Pike Bethesda, Maryland 20894 USA Telephone: +1 (301) 594-5983 Website: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/ Email: custserv@nlm.nih.gov Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Raja Cholan Member Forum: Patrick McLaughlin and Nick McGraw News articles Part of the National Institutes of Health, NLM provides information services to support the advancement of science, the progress of health care, and the public health. The Library’s electronic information services (including MEDLINE on PubMed.gov, consumer health information on MedlinePlus.gov, molecular biology and genomic resources, and many others) are available free of charge worldwide from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ . NLM serves as the central coordinating body for clinical terminology standards within the US. The Library supports the development, enhancement, and distribution of clinically specific vocabularies (e.g., SNOMED CT®, LOINC®, RxNorm®) to facilitate the exchange of clinical data and improve retrieval of health information. NLM’s activities in support of health data standardization are described at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/healthit.html. NLM makes SNOMED CT available in multiple formats, both in its native file structure and as part of the Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®) Metathesaurus®, where it is linked to more than 100 other biomedical terminologies in many languages and to lexical processing tools. The NLM distributes SNOMED CT free of charge to US and international users, under the terms of the standard affiliate license which is incorporated into the UMLS license agreement. Information about obtaining SNOMED CT from the NLM is available at www.nlm.nih.gov/snomed For more information users should contact NLM Customer service at https://support.nlm.nih.gov 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