SNOMED International is welcoming two new directors to its Management Board. New SNOMED International Management Board directors offer abundance of international leadership experience SNOMED International is welcoming two new directors to its Management Board. Back 23 Feb 2023 Back London, United Kingdom – SNOMED International is welcoming two new directors to its Management Board. The organization’s Management Board is a governance body with legal and oversight responsibility for the management and direction of SNOMED International. It offers the organization a wealth of experience in global healthcare and informatics, advanced technologies, organizational governance and business leadership and risk management, guiding us as we execute against our strategy and plan for the future. Management Board directors’ expertise and industry relationships are key to helping SNOMED International leverage technologies and strengthen partnerships with our many stakeholders worldwide, and guide the organization on the development and execution of our current five-year strategy . Anne-Marie Grey brings more than 30 years of humanitarian fundraising and marketing experience, both in the United States and internationally to SNOMED International. The recent Executive Director and CEO for USA for UNHCR , Anne-Marie is the Principal Director at New York-based Grey-O’Keefe Consulting LLC , a training, strategy, and marketing agency that brings causes and corporations together to positively impact society and business. She brings to the Board her unique and extensive leadership skills in both the not-for-profit and private sectors. Anne-Marie has mentored and advised non-profit leaders on resource mobilization, leadership and strategy at organizations such as the Forbes Nonprofit Council , an invitation-only, fee-based organization for senior-level executives in successful nonprofit organizations; USA for UNHCR ; UNHCR ; Save the Children ; and UNICEF . In addition to an educational background in art history, literature, finance and non-profit management, Anne-Marie has obtained DiSC and Five Behaviors partner certification, and is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and International Coaching Federation credential trained coach, facilitator, author, and international speaker. Bersabel Ephrem brings to the Management Board 32 years of experience in the areas of leadership, governance and public health policy and program management and has worked in several organizations within the Canadian Federal Government. Most recently, she served as the Director General of Centre of Communicable Diseases and Infection Control within the Public Health Agency of Canada . Prior to that, Bersabel served as the Senior Advisor to the Director General of the World Health Organization on management reform, where she provided leadership and oversight in the development of policies and institutionalized key governance initiatives. Bersabel has also served as Director General at the International Affairs Division of Health Canada . In this role, Bersabel led the Canadian delegation on several groundbreaking negotiations in WHO and the Pan American Health Organization. Her international experience includes serving as the Chair of APEC Health Task Force, head of the Secretariat for the Global Health Security Initiative and as the Vice Chair of the Board of Members at the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Research and Development Hub , providing her with unique insights on the challenges global healthcare-focused organizations must navigate and on successful strategies to advance on their goals. The breadth of skills possessed by the organization’s new and existing Management Board representatives are highly relevant to SNOMED International’s global membership structure and to the organization’s work developing SNOMED CT, a global terminology working to become the “one language of health” worldwide. Joanne Burns, Chair of the Management Board since 2020, remarks on the importance of bringing together a group of individuals with a variety of perspectives and experience from across this organization’s many valued stakeholder groups. “Ms. Grey’s and Ms. Ephrem’s depth of experience and skills honed across multiple national and international organizations and sectors over many years will contribute significantly to the strategy, finance and risk acumen of the SNOMED International Management Board.” SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete concurs. “Each of our new Management Board directors offers a suite of diverse strengths and highly relevant in-depth knowledge that will help move the organization forward,” he said. “I look forward to the positive impact they will have as they settle in and become integrated into the current Board.” Ms. Grey and Ms. Ephrem, both appointed to a two-year term, join a strong group of six Management Board Directors: Joanne Burns, Chair; and Directors Dr. Matic Meglic; Dr. Gong Mengchun; Dr. Isabelle de Zegher; Professor Michael Lewis; and Dr. Andrew Roddam. 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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

Armenia’s electronic health record journey strengthened through SNOMED International membership Back 10 Mar 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, March 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As 2019 drew to a close, the Republic of Armenia’s Ministry of Health signed on as a Member of the SNOMED International community. The Ministry of Health of the Republic of Armenia elaborates and implements the policies of the Republic in the healthcare sector. The Republic holds authority for the implementation of Armenia’s e-Health system, a single information platform supporting stakeholders of the country's medical institutions, citizens, and the state healthcare providers. The goal of the system is the usage of modern information and communication technologies, providing high-quality, safe, accessible and cost-effective medical services to the public; Tenets of which SNOMED CT supports in full. With a roadmap introduced by the Minister of Health at the end of 2017, SNOMED CT is well positioned to support the implementation of Armenia’s unified electronic information system approach through the provision of clinical terminology. Through the contribution of a structured clinical terminology, Armenia can leverage SNOMED CT to support delivery of projected system outcomes including the accuracy and relevancy of clinical information, a reduction in clinical miscommunication, and the ability to effectively use data to drive system-wide care decisions. SNOMED CT is the world’s most comprehensive health terminology. Founded in 2007 by nine charter nations, SNOMED International is a not-for-profit, member-owned and driven international organization. The addition of Armenia as a Member has grown the organization’s membership reaching further into Eurasia, now representing nine countries in the Asia Pacific region. “We are exceedingly pleased to be able to play a role in the Republic of Armenia’s national electronic information system implementation”, offers SNOMED International CEO, Don Sweete. “Through Protocol Decision no 43 and a definitive roadmap, Armenia sets its sights to improve the effectiveness, transparency and accuracy of health care interactions for their citizens, something that SNOMED International is proud to take part in progressing.” Since 2017, the Government of Armenia has dynamically installed e-health system in all hospitals throughout the country. In this ongoing process to achieve great results, the Ministry of Health of Armenia adopted a policy of integration of the data to be accurate, reliable and complete. For this reason, Armenia joined SNOMED International as a member country in 2019 to promote health information coding, health research and health records. Future integration and sharing of data will enhance and support clinical decisions and planning health policy. The Government of Armenia strongly has a belief that integration of SNOMED CT will not only support more accurate clinical decisions, but will also enhance productivity and patient safety. This is one step forward to unifying different local health systems. Armenia’s membership heightens the capability for clinical interoperability within the Asia Pacific region as well as leverages knowledge sharing among regional and international counterparts. SNOMED CT is part of the national infrastructure to ensure the exchange of accurate, relevant and timely information across all the information systems to support direct care, self-care and secondary uses of health information. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

IN2 Ingeniería de la Información Back IN2 Ingeniería de la Información Vendor Overview IN2 is an ICT consulting company with more than 22 years of experience, close to 100 engineers and nearly a 6 million euro turnover, expert in the implementation of e-health solutions based on Open Source technologies. At IN2 we work to build systems focused on patients, which enable the clinical-care information to be integrated and exploited in a way that helps professionals to prevent, enhance and customize treatments and patient’s’ life quality, and, “empowers” them in managing their own health. IN2 is carrying out Health organizational, semantic and technical interoperability projects in several countries like Spain, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Chile and Costa Rica. Our main clients include Catalonia Public Health Department, Catalan Public Health Service and the Catalan Government Hospital and Insurance Public Service Provider. 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 IN2 Health Codification is a tool based on SNOMED CT, designed to improve the quality of data in healthcare organizations by structuring the clinical language in SNOMED CT nodes that are collected in the EHR. Facilitates encoding by the professional: - Easy-to-use interface - Close to the natural language of professional - Search for diagnoses and procedures - Supports multiple taxonomies (CIE-9, CIE-10, CIE-0-3) Learning - Supervised learning and automatic learning - Training mode Integration - HIS interface integration through webservices - Automatic encoding of HIS episodes. - Integration of users through SingleSignOn Mapping among taxonomies Others - Support for the communication between healthcare professionals and encoders. Scope of services Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, EHR, EMR, Middleware, Telehealth Downloadable documents Office Alfonso XII Building Travessera de Gràcia 73-79 Àtic Barcelona Barcelona 08006 Spain www.in2.es Contact details Mónica Trastoy Healthcare IT Consultant +34902881776 monica.trastoy@in2.es Regions where operational Europe, South America

SNOMED CT global clinical terminology is introduced in Germany Back 24 Mar 2020 Back London, United Kingdom, March 24, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) formally announced a relationship with SNOMED International Wednesday March 18, 2020. As of last week, the Federal Ministry of Research has given MII participants nationwide a license to use SNOMED CT. Owned and maintained by SNOMED International, SNOMED CT is the world’s largest clinical terminology, representing a collection of more than 350,000+ clinical concepts and built upon ontological principles and of particular use when applied in research and planning capacities. SNOMED CT’s primary purpose is to support all healthcare professionals in their recording and sharing of detailed patient information within Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and across healthcare communities globally. Its ontological foundations allow SNOMED CT data to support detailed data analytics to meet a variety of use cases from local requirements to population-based analytics. With the help of SNOMED CT, programs can translate different medical terms into an internationally standardized numerical code. In this way, clinical data from different countries can be compared and used for research. This creates the prerequisites for treating diseases more effectively in the future, recognizing them faster and supporting prevention. The networking of routine care data and top medical research has great potential - for better medical treatment and for strengthening Germany as a business and science location. With a strong presence in Europe, MII’s license joins the initiative with 24 Members across Europe in the adoption and use of SNOMED CT. Currently within Germany, there also exist a large number of additional SNOMED CT affiliate licensees, representing a mixture of large vendors and local development licenses which have been provided free of charge for the time limited period of a project. As part of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the terminology standard can now be used nationwide. This “pilot license” will be initially limited to MII participants and project partners. During the course of the agreement, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) bears applicable license fees. The technology and method platform for networked medical research (TMF e.V.) will serve as the National Release Center and, as the MII coordination point, will organize and support the nationwide cooperation of the MII participants. SNOMED International is pleased to support the use of SNOMED CT throughout Germany and specifically within the Medical Informatics Initiative. CEO Don Sweete offers, “This is an exciting development which will benefit healthcare professionals and patients throughout the country. German licensees are joining a global SNOMED CT community which extends access to dedicated regional resources, release support, education, open source tooling and software, and in-person engagement opportunities.” With a complement of 39 Members, SNOMED CT now represents approximately one third of the global population. Adding to that complement with our affiliate licensees, SNOMED CT is now used in more than ninety countries globally. 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

Community content initiative will ‘“democratize” the development of SNOMED CT Back 9 Sept 2021 Back By Rory Davidson Chief Information Officer SNOMED International’s Chief Information Officer, Rory Davidson, discusses the organization's recent introduction of community content, answering your frequently asked questions about the offering. Over the past year, you may have heard some discussion of how SNOMED International is moving toward enabling stakeholders to contribute to and participate in the ongoing development, maintenance and improvement of SNOMED CT, our clinical terminology. In this blog post, SNOMED International CIO Rory Davidson explains what we mean by “community content,” how it will work and how we envision the benefits it will bring to our entire community of SNOMED CT users. Q: What do we mean by community content? RD: We want to provide a more easily accessible platform and content area where the community can contribute and collaborate on globally relevant SNOMED CT content. The community content model is a way to allow other stakeholders outside of SNOMED International to be involved in adding, improving and maintaining the terminology without our being a bottleneck. We talk about it as “democratizing terminology” in that we are enabling other people to participate in developing it, and by doing so, it won’t be just an ivory tower with SNOMED International at the top. Q: How will community content differ from national extensions? RD: The organization presently produces the SNOMED CT International Edition and publishes it twice a year (at the end of each July and January). National extensions are a bit different from the International Edition release. While dependent on the SNOMED CT International Edition, national extensions allow Members to add content to SNOMED CT that would not generally be relevant outside their country, based on policy, health trends, language, etc. You can think of a national extension as a localized layer on top of the International Edition. In contrast, community content provides somewhere to extend the core, the SNOMED CT International Edition, in a global way that is available to everybody, not just to a specific country as an extension. The International Edition has lots of checks and balances in place to ensure quality so we can’t add to it as quickly or as dynamically as people would often prefer, and national extensions tend to be quite specific. We see community content as an area where we can share things like reference sets, maps, translations and new content domains much more easily. This is based on our current thinking, which continues to evolve. Q: Can content be moved out of the community area and into the International Edition or a national extension? If so, how does that work? RD: In some cases, the community content area might be a staging area for content that people want to see globally that the SNOMED International team doesn’t have the capacity to add to the International Edition, or at least not that quickly. By including the content in the community content area, it’s available to everyone immediately. Once it has gone through a quality assurance process and clinical review, that content can be promoted into the International Edition, where it will then be maintained by SNOMED International. Q: How will quality continue to be assured with community content? RD: That’s the biggest challenge with this. It’s very easy to assure quality when you have a single team that is reviewing everything, but when you open it up to this collaborative approach, it becomes more challenging. It’s not just the process of ensuring quality across multiple external contributors; we also want to ensure stakeholders don’t perceive any impact to quality. We’re still reviewing the quality assurance process but it will require steps such as ensuring contributors are qualified, either by our certification courses or by other means, to work in the community content area. We will automate the QA process as much as we can, as we do for the International Edition and the national extensions, but ultimately this is a knowledge-based product and we are depending on other people to review community content. It requires treading a fine line between ensuring there are checks and balances while supporting and facilitating the community content contribution process. Q: What does community content mean to Members and other stakeholders? How does it benefit them and us? RD: It depends on the Member and the context: countries that have a large national extension, like Canada or Australia, may have global clinical content that they just haven’t been able to promote. The community content area could be where they put it, enabling other people to work with them to quality assure, maintain and use it, which means they no longer have to manage it in their extension. Countries that share a common language (as with French for Switzerland, Canada and Belgium, for example), can move their translation projects into the community content area, rather than each working individually on translations in their national extensions. This may be particularly useful for countries that are brand-new to SNOMED CT and that don’t have a lot of resources. For SNOMED International, the benefit is that we can work with clinical specialist groups and organizations, or even other standards bodies, who can manage whole areas of globally available community content that we (SNOMED International) don’t necessarily manage. That is a massive advantage for us in leveraging a wide and global knowledge base. It also means we can add new clinical domains to our clinical terminology. For example, one of the newest projects in community content is traditional medicine. Dr. Yongsheng Gao, one of our senior terminologists, has experience in that realm. He is working with a team of external experts on community content. It’s a great example of how we can work with other organizations without depending on our team to advance the work. Q: What kind of feedback have we received from our Members about this initiative? RD: I think Members can see the benefit of being able to have content globally available more quickly, because it takes time to add content to the International Edition. Community content speeds up that process of making content globally available.Members also see the flexibility community content enables and the advantages it provides, particularly in the area of translations. Non-Member countries might be more interested in becoming a SNOMED International Member when they see how community content facilitates language translation among countries that share languages. One great example of that is our Member country Kazakhstan, which speaks Kazak, but also Russian. Russian is also spoken in other countries, so if other Russian-speaking countries see there is already a translation project under way, they might be more interested in becoming a Member. Q: What challenges do you anticipate, if any, and how are we preparing to address them? RD: One challenge is ensuring quality, as I spoke about earlier. The other is making sure the community content area doesn’t become the wild west and just a dumping ground. At the moment, it’s a little bit like when Apple first unveiled the App Store for iPhones: they created the apps, but they didn’t know what people would do or how they would use them. We’re creating this area and we hope people will come and propose content additions to us. Then we will be able to say, “Yes, here’s a platform where you can do this and we can help you do it,” whereas before we would have told people to work with their national extension or to get in the queue to add new content to the International Edition. Q: Can you describe the rollout process/timeline, beginning with a soft launch? RD: We’re ahead of schedule – we expected to start this at the beginning of next year but we did a soft launch in February 2021. We now have a URL and a community content browser that currently hosts four projects: cancer synoptic reporting, genomics, traditional medicine and the common French translation. The next steps are to govern what can and can’t go into the community content area with the help of our Members. Over the next 12-18 months, we’ll be improving our tooling technology platform so people will be able to get involved much more easily than they can at the moment. At the end of the day, though, the community content initiative will reflect the efforts and engagement of our stakeholders and users. Q: How will users add to or use community content? RD: Initially this will be guided by the Member Forum and steering committee. The process we’ve discussed with them is that someone will submit (an equivalent to) a business case and let us know what they want to do. There will be some oversight and they will have to ensure they will maintain that content. SNOMED CT is a dynamic terminology, so if the content changes, say, in six months to a year, it is going to have to be maintained, so we will need a commitment that participants will take on that responsibility. Q: Do we have any success criteria or any expectations in terms of uptake? RD: No; I would say the things we’ve been able to achieve with cancer synoptic reporting, traditional medicine and the common French translation project (and what we expect to be doing with the common German translation project) have demonstrated that the idea has traction. I think the criteria would be that in two to three years we have an increase in content but no decrease in quality. There may not be a lot of people involved; it may just be one organization, so it’s not driven by aspirations to specific volumes, it’s more about what will be made available to people at a global level. This is a work in progress – we’re very open for feedback to help us make this work for the community. It’s important to note that this is not intended to be a mechanism for SNOMED International to offload work; it gives people the ability to be much more involved than they are now, whether it’s a local hospital, a project group or another standards body. We’ll provide the platform to do it and/or a way for them to use their own tools if they want to access the service. Q: Where can people find more information? RD: They can find it at http://snomed.org/community-content . Please note that a confluence account is required. Register for an account . Have a comment about this post? We’d love to hear from you. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

2023 Annual Report captures the achievements of SNOMED International and the SNOMED CT community Back 16 May 2024 Back The SNOMED International 2023 Annual Report is now available . In addition to reporting on the organization’s financial performance, the document provides a comprehensive overview of the organization’s pursuits and achievements over the past year. It includes updates on the organization’s regular activities, such as ongoing maintenance and development of SNOMED CT and its ecosystem of related products and services, as well as on new partnerships and initiatives that expand the reach, utility and value of the clinical terminology. Titled “Advancing the Global Language of Healthcare,” the report details the 2023 year-end status of the organization’s five-year strategy and describes how delivering on our 2023 targets has laid the groundwork for the next five-year strategy. Exploration and adoption of artificial intelligence and advanced technologies, broadening our innovative collaborations, and growing SNOMED CT use in digitally maturing regions are a few areas of focus as we define the organization’s priorities to 2030. Other highlights for this year’s report include an up-front section focusing on five key activities over 2023, and an expansion of our regular Member success stories to now include more regional and domain-focused articles. “In addition to meeting our strategy objectives for the year, SNOMED International, with the support of our Members, collaborating partners and broader community, had the opportunity to initiate and drive a number of new initiatives, such as the Entity Linking Challenge, in which we expanded our reach beyond the SNOMED CT community,” said SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “We look forward to building on everything we learned from these experiences as we complete the final year of our 2020-2025 strategy.” SNOMED International extends its gratitude to its Members and broad community of stakeholders for the contributions and advances they made throughout 2023 – for participating in our webinars, business meetings, annual Expo and various governance and advisory groups, for engaging with us at events and on social media, and for helping SNOMED CT remain a responsive and agile product capable of quickly responding to ever-evolving needs. Read the 2023 Annual Report here . For more information, contact us 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

New collaboration with the AAP and the EFP boosts quantity and quality of international dentistry Back 14 Dec 2021 Back SNOMED International is pleased to announce a new collaboration agreement with the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP). Effective as of October 1, 2021 for a five-year term, this collaboration emerged from the need identified by the SNOMED International Dentistry Clinical Reference Group (CRG) to update and augment the periodontology content in SNOMED CT. The Dentistry CRG provides advice and guidance to ensure that SNOMED CT dentistry content meets the needs of users globally and is implementable in Dentistry Information Systems. To ensure periodontal content within SNOMED CT is in line with current practice, the Dentistry CRG advised incorporation of content from the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions, jointly published by the AAP and the EFP. The collaboration, which is resulting in the addition of new and updated periodontal content in future releases of SNOMED CT International Edition, will also create mechanisms for maintaining and updating the content to reflect agreed-upon practice in this area of dentistry, and aligns with the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions. In October 2023, the three participating organizations will determine future collaborative activities based on emerging global requirements. “The success and overall utility of SNOMED CT depends on a host of partnerships and collaborative agreements such as this,” said SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “This particular agreement is key to enhancing the breadth and depth of dentistry-related clinical terminology, and will benefit dental patients, dentists and other stakeholders worldwide. It will also help us to avoid duplicating work already done while ensuring we are aligning with work and delivering content in line with current practice.” “The AAP is an organization that prides itself on collaboration,” states AAP President, Christopher R. Richardson, DMD, MS. “The Academy’s mission is to ensure the quality of periodontal care in the United States and to also help people around the globe receive the best periodontal treatment possible. A critical component in accomplishing this goal is the sharing of knowledge. Co-creating the 2017 “Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions," and subsequent dissemination and incorporation throughout the world, are major accomplishments and the AAP is proud to be part of the process.” “The New Classification is the product of the World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-implant Diseases and Conditions, organised jointly in 2017 by the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP). This agreement represents another important step to create a consensus knowledge base for a new classification to be promoted globally”, says Lior Shapira, president of the EFP. “Periodontitis affects 45-50% of the world population and increases in prevalence with age, with severe periodontitis impacting 11% of people. The majority of periodontal diseases are totally preventable with excellent oral hygiene. We need to raise awareness of gum disease with oral healthcare professions and the public to ideally prevent it or if present treat early”, emphasizes Nicola West, secretary general of the EFP. “The 2017 World Workshop Classification system for periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions was developed in order to accommodate advances in knowledge derived from both biological and clinical research, importantly defining clinical health for the first time. This new classification is a game changer for oral healthcare professionals to manage better their patients”. About the AAP The American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) represents nearly 8,000 periodontists—specialists in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of inflammatory diseases affecting the gums and supporting structures of the teeth, and in the placement of dental implants. Periodontics is one of twelve dental specialties recognized by the American Dental Association. About the EFP The European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting awareness of periodontal science and the importance of gum health. Its guiding vision is “Periodontal health for a better life.”Founded in 1991, the EFP is a federation of 37 national periodontal societies that represents more than 16,000 periodontists, dentists, researchers and oral-health professionals from Europe and around the world. It pursues evidence-based science in periodontal and oral health, promoting events and campaigns aimed at both professionals and the public. 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 Compositional Grammar Specification and Guide Back 21 May 2015 Back IHTSDO is pleased to announce that a revised "SNOMED CT Compositional Grammar Specification and Guide" has been published to the SNOMED CT Document Library. SNOMED CT Compositional Grammar is a lightweight syntax for the representation of SNOMED CT expressions, which has proven to be both human readable and machine parsable. The use of SNOMED CT expressions in Electronic Health Records (EHRs) provides a standardized way to represent clinical meanings captured by clinicians and enables the automatic interpretation of this meaning. SNOMED CT expressions are also carried in messages, used to define pre-coordinated concepts and used to represent associations between SNOMED CT and LOINC (Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes). The revised SNOMED CT Compositional Grammar Specification and Guide describes a revision to the previously adopted IHTSDO standard. The new specification is completely backwardly compatible with the prior standard, and includes two significant enhancements: Concrete values are now permitted as attribute values, and a definition status may now (optionally) be included at the start of an expression to indicate whether the clinical idea being expressed is 'equivalent to' or a 'subtype of' the expression. The new Specification and Guide defines the formal syntax of SNOMED CT Compositional Grammar, explains a set of example expressions and provides guidance to assist in the implementation of this syntax. Click here for a direct link to the " SNOMED CT Compositional Grammar Specification and Guide ." Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Core Consultoria e Serviços Ltda Back Core Consultoria e Serviços Ltda Vendor Overview Core Consulting is a company with skills and human capital to design and execute information technology projects with excellence. Innovation is the motivation to build modern solutions for our customers. The knowledge of our professionals in Business Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and Business Process Management enable us to automate business activities in an interoperable way. Our experience in projects and consultancies developed for government agencies and public and private companies distinguishes Core Consulting® in overcoming complex challenges. The network of relationships and international technical partnerships constitute performance differentials. The transfer of technological knowledge through training is a strategic objective of the company: SOA School® (SOACP), Big Data School®) and BPM training courses are offered. 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 Since 2011, Brazil has SNOMED-CT standard terminology to promote semantic interoperability between EHRs systems, regulated by 2.073/2011 of the Ministry Health of Brasil. In 2018 Brazil become SNOMED International member country. Belong these years Core Consulting did important technology development and implementations using OpenEHR standards and SNOMED CT. The main project is with Ministry of Health of Brazil, project of the PROADI Program, with HAOC and Core consulting as partners in the development of the Health Information Interoperability Bus. This project resulted in a backend software solution that allows interoperability between EHRs systems using OpenEHR and IHE standards, as well as mapping between local and OpenEHR terminologies. Scope of services Analytics, EHR, EMR, Middleware, Telehealth Downloadable documents Office SCS, quadra 9 Bloco C, Torre C, salas 1001 a 1003 - Asa Sul Brasilia DF 70308-200 Brazil www.coreconsulting.com.br Contact details Andre Amaro Toffanello CEO +5561981659982 andre.toffanello@coreconsulting.com.br Regions where operational South America

HealthScore, a product of cSoft Tech. Back HealthScore, a product of cSoft Tech. Vendor Overview cSoft Technologies is a young healthcare solutions company based at Bangalore trying to make a difference in how hospitals perceive technology and save medical records through our unique platform, HealthScore. HealthScore has been successfully validated by clinicians across multiple hospitals in India, and includes a complete hospital information management system, in addition to EMR, that exceeds all the requirements of the National Board of Accreditation for Hospital (NABH) in India. 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 Our advanced SNOMED CT based EMR is unique for its: Workflow design: Our clinical workflow and care plan module design creates traceability & accountability across clinical, financial and administrative functions. Cloud based, so you don't have to worry about hardware or software so that you can focus on your patients. User Interface: Our UI, navigation and mobile app is design to make data entry easy and quick for the users. This tends to be the hardest challenge is getting adoption, and we have a good, workable solution for our customers. Solving this issue guarantees ROI for hospitals on our product. Analytics: Reporting and analysis with HealthScore using SNOMED CT is far superior, We have a reporting platform that can easily generate reports for the government, on hospital clinical and administrative operations. Further, when combined with workflow transparency, hospital management will be a position to analyze and make informed decisions about improving patient and financial outcomes. Scope of services Analytics, Clinical documentation, EMR, Pharmacy Downloadable documents HealthScore - A product of cSoft Tech Brochure Office Canada Contact details Sendil Kumar Director +91-988-00-21721 sendil@thehealthscore.com Regions where operational Africa, Asia