Monica Harry shares highlights of the Jan 2021 Int'l Edition Back 17 Feb 2021 Back In the Q&A below, Monica Harry, Director of Content and Mapping and part of the team at SNOMED International guided by Head of Terminology, Dr. Jim Case, answers some of the most frequently asked questions we receive about SNOMED CT and the process the organization uses to develop content and finalize each release. What would you say is the most important highlight of this latest release of SNOMED CT International Edition (January 31, 2021)? MH: For this latest release, I’d say it’s the COVID-19 vaccine-related content. We added 21 new concepts to support the vaccine administration process, which is extremely important as countries around the world ramp up their efforts to vaccinate their citizens against the virus. We also added new content reflecting the much discussed sentiment of "long COVID," a colloquial term for clinical signs that may persist after the acute COVID-19 disease. In SNOMED CT, this sentiment is represented by two concepts: "Post-acute COVID-19 (disorder) - 1119303003" and "Chronic post-COVID-19 syndrome (disorder) - 1119304009." Other important highlights include anatomy changes to support cancer synoptic reporting, a clinical documentation method that uses structured checklists to help clinicians produce more complete, consistent and valuable medical reports; and the updated concept model for allergies and adverse reaction to vaccines. As well, the new content for food insecurity and housing status, i.e., two of the factors measured as part of social care, is an important addition: SNOMED International, as part of its strategic priorities, has been working with the U.S.-based Gravity Project to ensure any Social Determinants of Health content that is internationally applicable is available for international usage. Over the past year, SNOMED International has taken a number of steps to support the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic, and the organization continues those efforts with the vaccination content in this latest release. What do you see as the trajectory for that ongoing work over 2021? MH: This is the challenge: that every day there is new information about the virus and the way it’s mutating. That in turn affects lab testing, and at the same time, there are new vaccines being approved, manufactured, put into service and injected into humans. Then there are the outcomes of how people respond to those vaccines, which is where the content related to adverse reactions and success rates may come into play. So there are a number of areas all related to expressing those different factors and we have to ensure we have the content to do that. I’d say that’s an ongoing project that we’ll have for at least the next release, if not the whole of the next year. One of the challenges around vaccines, though, is that we do not put the brand names of drugs into SNOMED CT because brand names don’t tell you the details of products, they just give you the brand name. If I say Kleenex, for example, that doesn’t tell you if it’s a thick or thin one, if it has perfume or no perfume or if it’s hypoallergenic -- a brand name is just too broad as well as country specific. We’re working on ways to address this challenge presently so that our Members can create content that would be too granular in the International Edition, but useful to the users and citizens of their regions. How is SNOMED International addressing the issue of emerging coronavirus variants and what are the challenges from an ontological perspective? MH: In a nutshell, we’re not adding variants unless there is a clinical significance to their presence. As of this writing, the current variants of interest do not affect treatment or response to vaccination. We are monitoring the identification of new variants and are ready to add them if the clinical significance warrants it. One of SNOMED International’s strategic priorities is to support the reduction of health inequity through developing and managing social determinants of health content within SNOMED CT. What are the plans for advancing this work in the future? MH: This is a new endeavour -- to start including aspects of people’s lives that are not strictly clinical or health-related, such as housing and food, but that certainly have an impact on how people cope with disease and illness. More and more we are beginning to realize these factors are important. Unfortunately, different countries -- and even different regions within those countries -- record this information in a variety of ways, so what we’re doing is listening to and engaging in those conversations around how we harmonize this terminology. How do we all call things by the same names so we can share the information and understand each other and understand where and how we record this so we get some uniformity in reporting? It’s difficult because there are groups in countries working individually, so we have to try to bridge the gaps and get them together to have conversations. The U.S.-based Gravity Project is collating terms and names and harmonizing them within that project and sharing that information. There are similar projects elsewhere in the world working to ensure we are all using the same terms to describe things so that information can be stored in an EHR and provide a more holistic view of a patient’s life. SNOMED International is tapping into those groups to benefit from their findings. In this release, SNOMED International added a fair amount of content to support Members mapping from SNOMED CT to ICD-11. Why is this important? MH: It’s important so that in the future, we can have a map from SNOMED CT to ICD-11 for those Member countries using SNOMED CT who report in ICD; we want to enable them to do that seamlessly. In the most recent release, SNOMED CT added 500 new concepts for the purposes of supporting our Members in those efforts to map from SNOMED CT to ICD-11. So we’ve spoken about a breadth of clinical content that can be added to SNOMED CT. Can you describe the process of determining what does and doesn’t go into the international edition? MH: Our drivers for that decision-making process are multiple: one is our strategic plan set out by our Members and the organization. It’s focused on adapting to the evolving world of health care, imagining the future and planning for upcoming changes in clinical recording. We also have projects that drive content changes, such as our Quality Initiative, which is a restructuring of SNOMED CT to ensure content is in the right place. Think of it as if the documents in a filing cabinet were out of order and you wanted to refile everything in the right place so you can find it more easily when you search for something. Then we have our Content Request System, which Members who are implementing SNOMED CT and have individual requirements for changes can use to request content changes. Where can people go to find more information on the latest SNOMED CT release? MH: Please check out our latest news release for more information or write us at info@snomed.org . Have a comment about this post? We’d love to hear from you at 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

First Databank UK Ltd. Back First Databank UK Ltd. Vendor Overview FDB (First Databank) is the leading provider of drug and medical device knowledge that helps healthcare professionals make precise decisions. With thousands of customers worldwide and four decades of experience, FDB enables our developer partners to deliver actionable solutions that help improve patient safety, quality, and healthcare 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 FDB Multilex provides comprehensive, independent, medications information and is the UK’s most widely used drug database and e-prescribing decision support solution, deployed in over 10,000 sites. FDB Multilex supports safer e-prescribing and dispensing across a range of healthcare settings. Multilex uses SNOMED to support contraindication checking for prescribed drugs. SNOMED is also used to allow users to navigate from a prescribed drug to a diagnosis for recording in an Electronic Health Record Product. Set links enabled by SNOMED are used for secondary care prescribing where most drugs are prescribed by VTM but not preparation strength or formulation, and also for Ingredient links for allergy recording. FDB OptimiseRx is the leading medicines optimisation solution for primary care in the UK. FDB OptimiseRx combines evidence-based best practice, safety and cost-effective prescribing messages, and delivers them in real time at the point of care during the prescribing workflow. SNOMED is used in condition checking for OptimiseRx alternative product screening and for Condition Term authoring in OptimiseRx complex messages. Across both solutions, SNOMED is used in value sets for the following: Admin Method Admin Site Base Formulation DXID (Diagnosis group) Ingredient Product Set Route Unit of measure The main areas of SNOMED linked to include, but are not limited to: Procedure Substance Situation with explicit context Clinical finding Trade Family Virtual therapeutic moiety Morphological abnormality Scope of services Analytics, Chronic disease, Clinical documentation, Drug, EHR, EMR, Oncology, Pharmacy Downloadable documents Office Swallowtail House Grenadier Road Exeter Devon EX1 3LH UnitedKingdom https://fdbhealthdata.com/ Contact details Ian Arrowsmith Head of Clinical Content Operations +44 (0) 1392 440 100 contact@fdbhealth.com Regions where operational Global

Royal Philips Back Royal Philips Vendor Overview Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. The company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. Philips' health technology portfolio has sales and services in more than 100 countries. News about Philips can be found at www.philips.com/newscenter. 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 At Philips, we believe an enterprise-wide approach to interoperability can ensure that insight-rich data is put to meaningful and appropriate use, helping to transform the delivery of healthcare for everyone, remaining strongly committed to open platforms. We recognize the importance and need for SNOMED CT in that commitment. In addition, multiple products in Philips Healthcare have adopted SNOMED CT as an integrated component. Scope of services Analytics, Chronic disease, Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, Diagnostic imaging, EHR, EMR, Middleware, Oncology, Order sets, Telehealth Downloadable documents Office Amstelplein 2 Amsterdam North Holland 1096 BC Netherlands www.philips.com Contact details Marty Gordon Vice President of Business Development 1-310-888-2203 marty.gordon@philips.com Regions where operational Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, North America, Oceania, South America

The country’s Ministry of Health and Wellness will act as the National Release Centre (NRC) for the country. Belize The country’s Ministry of Health and Wellness will act as the National Release Centre (NRC) for the country. Contact Details Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness Website: TBD Email: TBD Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Andrei Chell Member Forum: Russel Manzanero & Juan Carlos Sarabia News articles Belize advances its digital health goals with the adoption of SNOMED CT Belize’s adoption of SNOMED CT is part of its efforts to digitize and modernize its healthcare delivery services. In 2022, the country announced the digital transformation of its health sector via a European Union-funded Health Sector Support Programme Belize Project to develop and implement a Clinical Data Exchange Platform to enable interconnectivity and interoperability between various different platforms such as Belize's Health Information System (BHIS). In June 2024, the Belize Ministry of Health and Wellness announced it was seeking Inter-American Development Bank funding for further integration of digital technologies as part of its work to strengthen the BHIS and develop a more comprehensive framework for telemedicine, starting with a pilot program focused on mental health services. The country’s Ministry of Health and Wellness will act as the National Release Centre (NRC) for the country. NRCs serve as the interface between SNOMED International, the national users and Affiliates, and other Members. 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

Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO Back Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO Vendor Overview The Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) is the leading national research facility applying information and communication technology to improve health services and clinical treatment for Australians. AEHRC is a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government, through Queensland Health. AEHRC combines CSIRO’s capabilities in information and communication technology and health with Queensland’s extensive health research and clinical expertise. 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 Core to the business of the AEHRC is the development of tools and services to support the use of SNOMED CT and HL7’s FHIR. These tools and supporting service enable improvements in the use, interoperability, and effectiveness of patient data captured in electronic medical records. Key platform technologies include: Snorocket, which for the first time enabled semi-real-time authoring of very-large-scale clinical ontologies like SNOMED CT. Ontoserver, which is a world-leading clinical terminology server implementing HL7’s Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) Terminology Services and supporting syndication–based content distribution. Snapper: Map, a web browser-based app that enables authoring maps from legacy terminology to standards-based terminologies, and Snapper: Author, a web browser-based app for authoring HL7 FHIR terminology resources and publishing them to a FHIR terminology server). Together, these tools support migration to and use of standard terminologies, and the adoption of the national approach to interoperable digital health information. SnoMAP, which enables diagnoses recorded using SNOMED CT-AU in Emergency Department to be converted to ICD10-AM codes for non-admitted patient reporting purposes, thus supporting the use and re-use of the standard clinical terminology for statistical and reporting activities. This technology can be applied to other areas of reporting, both ICD 10-AM specific or other locally defined aggregation categories. Shrimp, a web browser-based app that provides an interface for searching for codes, and a dynamic and interactive hierarchy viewer. Scope of services Analytics, Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, Diagnostic imaging, EMR, Middleware, Order sets, Pharmacy, Telehealth Downloadable documents Office Level 5 UQ Health Sciences Building Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital Brisbane QLD 4029 Australia http://ontoserver.csiro.au Contact details Dr Michael Lawley Group Leader +61 07 3253 3609 michael.lawley@csiro.au Regions where operational Europe, Global, North America, Oceania

SNOMED International Announces Management Board Changes Back 7 Oct 2020 Back Since the date of issue, this information is now out of date and has been archived. It has been made available for reference. London, United Kingdom, October 7, 2020 – Changes are underway for SNOMED International’s Management Board, a governance body which has legal and oversight responsibility for the management and direction of SNOMED International. At the end of August 2020, SNOMED International appointed Joanne Burns to the role of Board Chair, having previously served the organization in the role of vice-chair. Joanne Burns succeeds Lady Barbara Judge CBE , SNOMED International’s Management Board Chair and highly respected and globally recognized governance expert, who recently passed away. Joanne Burns, a highly valued part of the Management Board since April 2017, has worked closely with the General Assembly Executive and the CEO to shape the 2020-2025 SNOMED International strategy , offering actionable insights on measuring value to the organization and Members. An organization that features a multi-tiered governance structure, a fluid working relationship between the Management Board and the General Assembly is an essential component of success for SNOMED International. Acknowledging Outgoing Members SNOMED International bid a fond farewell to our outgoing Directors whose terms have concluded. Dr. Douglas Fridsma, appointed 2015, and Dr. Cheemin Bo-Linn , appointed 2017, have both exhibited excellence in their management of the organization’s risk portfolio, leaving the Management Board governing body well-positioned to support SNOMED International as it works toward achieving its established goals. Dr. Fridsma , a health informatics expert who first joined the Management Board as a Director in 2015, has been a strong proponent of good governance and sound financial management practices. Dr. Fridsma became the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee Chair in 2017 and has participated on the Management Board’s revenue subcommittee, where he led a number of strategic discussions resulting in operational improvement initiatives. Dr. Bo-Linn, CEO of Peritus Partners Inc., held the role of vice-chair of the FARC. Over the past three years, Dr. Bo-Linn has encouraged SNOMED International to optimize how its harnesses, adopts and implements advanced technology befitting a terminology. In 2019, she was recognized as one of the Top 50 Directors in the United States by the National Association of Corporate Directors for her significant impact on boardroom practice and performance. “During my tenure working with Doug and Cheemin, I have observed how each has left a lasting and positive impact on SNOMED International,” said the organization’s CEO, Don Sweete. “I thank them both for their unique contributions and their leadership over the past three years and wish them every success in their future endeavours.” Welcoming New Directors We are pleased to welcome four new Management Board Directors, all of whom will formally join SNOMED International at the October 2020 Business Meetings. Our newly appointed Management Board Directors bring to the organization a wealth of experience in global healthcare and informatics, advanced technologies, organizational governance and business leadership. As such, they are well-positioned to guide SNOMED International in the execution of its 2020-2025 strategy by leveraging technologies and strengthening partnerships with a broad range of stakeholders in private and public sector organizations across the globe. Hadas Bitran, Tel Aviv-based founder and head of Microsoft Healthcare Israel, brings to SNOMED International’s MB considerable expertise in the area of building AI technologies and products for health and life sciences, including language services, natural language processing, personal health assistant technologies and machine learning based solutions. Prior to joining Microsoft, Hadas held senior leadership positions at SAP after managing R&D and product teams in start-up companies. She received her BSc degree in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, and her MBA from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University in Chicago. Dr. Isabelle de Zegher , previously Vice President, Integrated Solutions, at Parexel Informatics, recently left her corporate career to found a start-up that is developing an AI-based solution empowering individuals to curate their personal data. Dr. de Zegher offers extensive board and advisory experience across a variety of EU initiatives, including with the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry. A member of the Health Level Seven (HL7) Technical Committee for nearly a decade, Dr. de Zegher also serves on the Board of Directors of CDISC, the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium, a standards development organization seeking to create clarity in the clinical research domain. Professor Michael Lewis , has 30 years global health industry experience, and among other roles, is currently Chair of five medical and contract research organizations as well as digital health companies. Professor Lewis has previously held a series of senior roles at various European companies focused on pharma, biotech, digital, dental, devices and diagnostics. Professor Lewis is also a frequent speaker at conferences and events on digital health-focused topics such as mental health, investment and innovation. Dr. Andrew Roddam is currently the CEO of the UK Early Disease Detection Research Project. An internationally renowned epidemiologist, Andrew has held a wide range of roles across both academia and the pharmaceutical industry, principally focused on the application of epidemiological methods to advance the understanding of human disease. He has a strong interest in health informatics and is an experienced board member within the UK and internationally who regularly participates at international meetings and conferences as a keynote speaker. “We look forward to the combined wisdom and experience each new Director brings as we work toward executing our strategy and measuring its impact to our Members and users worldwide” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. The organization’s four newly appointed Directors join Board Chair, Joanne Burns, and Directors Dr. Gong Mengchun and Dr. Matic Meglic. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

In an academic hospital setting, physicians and researchers frequently request prevalence data of medical conditions. Prevalence figures are essential for research purposes, quality control, policy development, and resource allocation. Following the transition to a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system in 2021, the Antwerp University Hospital introduced SNOMED terminology to standardize the documentation of medical conditions and procedures. Legacy records were converted by a team, using code recommendations within a Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool, to convert legacy records into structured SNOMED data. As with any major change, adoption varies; while some users embrace structured documentation early, widespread acceptance remains a big challenge. To support this ongoing process, a hospital diagnosis dashboard was introduced in 2023. This self-service tool allows physicians and researchers to query the hospital's data warehouse using SNOMED terms. Query results are presented in a pseudonymized format and include limited demographic details (such as sex and age), as well as additional data points like last visit, author, specialty, and date of diagnosis. These results make use of relations within SNOMED CT, with the capability to include child concepts implicitly with a search. This diagnosis dashboard may help in the gradual adoption to SNOMED registration. It provides the end-users of EPR a tool to aid in research and demonstrates directly the potential and importance of structured documentation. Back View Map Antwerp University Hospital Enhancing Clinical Data Accessibility by a Diagnosis Dashboard Read More Country / Region EMEA Tags Clinical Practice, Data analytics, EHDS (European Health Data Space), Innovation, Tooling In an academic hospital setting, physicians and researchers frequently request prevalence data of medical conditions. Prevalence figures are essential for research purposes, quality control, policy development, and resource allocation. Following the transition to a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system in 2021, the Antwerp University Hospital introduced SNOMED terminology to standardize the documentation of medical conditions and procedures. Legacy records were converted by a team, using code recommendations within a Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool, to convert legacy records into structured SNOMED data. As with any major change, adoption varies; while some users embrace structured documentation early, widespread acceptance remains a big challenge. To support this ongoing process, a hospital diagnosis dashboard was introduced in 2023. This self-service tool allows physicians and researchers to query the hospital's data warehouse using SNOMED terms. Query results are presented in a pseudonymized format and include limited demographic details (such as sex and age), as well as additional data points like last visit, author, specialty, and date of diagnosis. These results make use of relations within SNOMED CT, with the capability to include child concepts implicitly with a search. This diagnosis dashboard may help in the gradual adoption to SNOMED registration. It provides the end-users of EPR a tool to aid in research and demonstrates directly the potential and importance of structured documentation. Description The scope of the project was to support the acceptance of using SNOMED CT as a terminology to document medical conditions and procedures. At the same time, it aimed to provide a self-service tool to help researchers and physicians query SNOMED terms within the hospital environment. Scope In 2013, Belgium strategically decided to adopt SNOMED CT as the primary clinical terminology for the healthcare system to support the informatization of healthcare. How SNOMED CT will be used SNOMED CT is used in our Electronic Patient Record System thoughout the hospital to describe or document ongoing and resolved diagnosis, problems or procedures. Physicians use SNOMED CT disorders, findings and procedures front-end to document in a problem list or what is called -clinical history- in our EPR. 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 April 2024, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona implemented a SNOMED CT-coded Health Problem List supported by terminology services and a natural language processing (NLP) tool to assist clinicians in real-time coding. The system's architecture comprises a Hybrid Coder (semantic and lexical), Reviewer, Manager, and a Terminology Service. Initial results indicate that clinicians accepted 74.2% of the tool's suggested codes directly. An additional 23.3% required intervention from a professional medical coder, while only 2.5% of entries remained uncoded. The original catalogue included 7,364 SNOMED CT concepts, which has since expanded to 10,267 in response to clinical needs. Key success factors included user-centered design tailored to various clinical environments (emergency, inpatient, outpatient), ensuring minimal disruption to clinical workflows. A governance model involving an Editorial Board of clinical experts helped resolve terminology issues. The use of a dedicated language reference set enabled appropriate granularity and assignment of preferred terms. A major advantage of the implementation is the immediate availability of structured clinical data for both primary and secondary use, reinforcing user engagement by demonstrating tangible benefits early in the process. Future developments include the integration of ORPHA codes to support the documentation of rare diseases. Nonetheless, achieving concept standardization remains a challenge, particularly in innovative care settings where clinical needs may surpass the specificity offered by existing terminologies. Back View Map Hospital Clinic de Barcelona Clinicians use of an on-line Health Problem List coded in SNOMED CT after one year of its implementation Read More Country / Region EMEA Tags Clinical Practice, Implementation, Tooling In April 2024, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona implemented a SNOMED CT-coded Health Problem List supported by terminology services and a natural language processing (NLP) tool to assist clinicians in real-time coding. The system's architecture comprises a Hybrid Coder (semantic and lexical), Reviewer, Manager, and a Terminology Service. Initial results indicate that clinicians accepted 74.2% of the tool's suggested codes directly. An additional 23.3% required intervention from a professional medical coder, while only 2.5% of entries remained uncoded. The original catalogue included 7,364 SNOMED CT concepts, which has since expanded to 10,267 in response to clinical needs. Key success factors included user-centered design tailored to various clinical environments (emergency, inpatient, outpatient), ensuring minimal disruption to clinical workflows. A governance model involving an Editorial Board of clinical experts helped resolve terminology issues. The use of a dedicated language reference set enabled appropriate granularity and assignment of preferred terms. A major advantage of the implementation is the immediate availability of structured clinical data for both primary and secondary use, reinforcing user engagement by demonstrating tangible benefits early in the process. Future developments include the integration of ORPHA codes to support the documentation of rare diseases. Nonetheless, achieving concept standardization remains a challenge, particularly in innovative care settings where clinical needs may surpass the specificity offered by existing terminologies. Description This work presents a novel experience in the implementation of multi-terminology services at a tertiary university hospital, used for the standardization of health problems from the very beginning of the care process. Scope SNOMED CT was selected as the reference terminology to record health problems due to its international recognition for coding from healthcare professionals' natural language expressions and its utility in linking with other classifications and local organizational catalogs. It was chosen over other vocabularies such as ICD because it is more comprehensive, clinically focused, and customizable, allowing domain-specific work, different levels of granularity, and integration with clinical guidelines and decision support systems through its hierarchical and transversal relationships. How SNOMED CT will be used The Clinician Workstation has a specific widget where the physician writes the Health Problem in natural language. Immediately the system offers a list of up to five candidate-SNOMED CT concepts coded by a Hybrid Coder (semantic and lexical). The descriptions viewed in the widget are the SNOMED CT Preferred terms. Clinician selects the desired one or chooses the option “none of them”. In the last case the textual expression remains uncoded until the Coder Expert reviews and solves it. 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

2016 IHTSDO Award Winners Announced Back 25 Oct 2016 Back IHTSDO presented two awards at its 2016 Awards Gala this week in Wellington, New Zealand in conjunction with the SNOMED CT Expo. The Award of Excellence is given for outstanding contribution to the improvement of SNOMED CT and its successful implementation in health and social care. The 2016 award was presented to Daniel Karlsson, a Senior Lecturer in Medical Informatics at Linkoping University in Sweden. Mr. Karlsson has been continuously involved as an advisor and active participant in different positions related to the content in SNOMED CT since IHTSDO's inception. His involvement in other organizations has also facilitated the content of SNOMED CT to better match supplementary standards and to facilitate both formal and informal collaboration with other organizations. The Lifetime Achievement Award is given for outstanding individual, sustained contribution in the development and promotion of SNOMED CT and for global leadership in the terminology field. The 2016 award was presented to Dr. Guillermo Reynoso, a physician and Director, Terminology Services at termMed IT in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For over 20 years Dr. Reynoso's commitment to the development and success of SNOMED CT as a global healthcare terminology has been unwavering. He has held numerous positions with IHTSDO over the years and has generously shared his extensive technical and content knowledge with his colleagues. Congratulations to both well-deserving gentlemen! 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 offers a wide range of software and tools to use and work with SNOMED CT, as well as supporting a growing community of developers. Software and tools SNOMED International offers a wide range of software and tools to use and work with SNOMED CT, as well as supporting a growing community of developers. SNOMED CT tooling SNOMED CT tools can help to support a range of implementation tasks, from managing the creation and maintenance of reference sets, maps and translations, to providing terminology services to effectively access SNOMED CT content from a software application. Browse tools Browsers Reference set tools Mapping tools (E.g. Snap2SNOMED) Translation tools Authoring tools Release tools Terminology services Record services User interfaces Natural language processing Data analytics tools Open source software development The implementation of SNOMED CT into systems is key to the growing adoption of SNOMED CT. To help this, all the source code for the tools and services developed by SNOMED International are made available under the Apache v2 open source license. Along with a licensed copy of a SNOMED CT edition, these can be used by your development teams to incorporate SNOMED CT into your systems. In our open source repositories, you can find useful code libraries, examples of using SNOMED CT, and the source to all of our tools, including the popular SNOMED CT Browser and examples SNOMED CT Terminology Servers. Our open source code The SNOMED CT browser The SNOMED International SNOMED CT browser provides ways to browse and search different SNOMED CT Editions from SNOMED International and its Member countries. The SNOMED CT browser is provided to anyone to use for reference purposes. Visit the browser SNOMED CT Concept Lookup SNOMED CT Concept Lookup is a quick and efficient way to find the concept associated with a SNOMED CT code. A quick and easy-to-understand utility for people who are not SNOMED CT experts, the Lookup shows the concept and where it’s from, and gives the translations where applicable or available. Lookup a concept Managed service The Managed Service was created to provide an online service that would allow SNOMED International Members to manage and distribute a release of a SNOMED CT local extension from start to finish in simple, standard manner. The Managed Service was designed to provide a value for money, off the shelf service for SNOMED International Members, benefitting from the use of a shared platform. The Managed Service provides a fully hosted service with: access to SNOMED International technical and content staff for support; use of the SNOMED CT Authoring Platform and the Reference Set & Translation tool; validation, release and distribution of SNOMED CT local extensions up to twelve times a year. Access Managed Service FAQs here , and the Catalogue here . If you are interested in getting more information on the SNOMED International Managed Service, please contact your local CSRM representative. Contact us Learn more News Read our latest news, newsletters and events Learn more Document library Access overviews, guides and specifications Learn more Vendors SNOMED CT enables digital health solutions with the gold standard in clinical terminology Learn more Education Our education program is designed to enable users to maximize their knowledge of SNOMED CT Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe SNOMED CT tooling Software development The SNOMED CT browser Concept lookup Managed service

Leveraging the unique power of clinical concepts and defining relationships, Researchers and Knowledge Producers use SNOMED CT to integrate other classification schemes and quickly create data, information, evidence, and knowledge. Researchers Leveraging the unique power of clinical concepts and defining relationships, Researchers and Knowledge Producers use SNOMED CT to integrate other classification schemes and quickly create data, information, evidence, and knowledge. A value proposition for reseachers SNOMED CT enables Researchers and Knowledge Producers to create ‘a one language of health’ and accelerate data, information, evidence and knowledge creation, and to support a wide range of analytics and research activities to benefit the decision-making of policymakers, care providers, patients/citizens and other health care stakeholders. Download Engage as a researcher Engagement with the research community enables SNOMED International to determine the needs of our science and research stakeholders. We make it a priority to evolve how we engage and support our research community in their use of SNOMED CT. Our research engagement team: Customer Relations Lead Americas & Collaborations Specialist: Suzy Roy Contact Research web series The Research Web Series is a collection of monthly, 60-minute webinars presented by distinguished researchers from the SNOMED CT community. The webinars showcase current research involving SNOMED CT. Registration is open to all, and there is no cost to attend. View schedule Watch past webinars Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe Value proposition Engage as a researcher Research web series

The role of the clinical coder is set to change, but we should see it as an opportunity to improve Back 3 Mar 2020 Back By Dr Simon Wallace AI─powered speech recognition technology coupled with the structured clinical terminology SNOMED CT could influence and partake the transformation of clinical coder's role in the NHS─more integrated and part of the clinical team to perform the clinical coding early in the process and help to improve the quality and the consistency of data. Read the full article here: https://whatsnext.nuance.co.uk/healthcare/role-clinical-coder-set-change-see-opportunity-improve-healthcare/ Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe