The SNOMED CT International Edition to be published on first day of each month BLOG: The SNOMED CT International Edition to be published on first day of each month The SNOMED CT International Edition to be published on first day of each month Back 19 May 2023 Back In January 2022, SNOMED International moved to releasing the International Edition of SNOMED CT at the end of every month , rather than just twice a year. Today, we are announcing the move to a new release day: the first day of each month. In this blog, SNOMED International Release Manager Andrew Atkinson explains why we made the shift, how it reflects our ongoing commitment to innovation and evolution throughout the entire lifecycle of a release, and how it benefits our users. Q: What change will users see as of September 2023? AA: The International Edition packages will be released on MLDS on the first of each month, instead of the last day of the month. The final release on the old schedule will be on July 31, 2023, and the first release on the new schedule will be published on September 1, 2023. This means there will be no release in the month of August 2023, as there would be no new content to publish on August 1 after just having deployed the July release on the day before! This will be the only month to go without a release (including August 2024), as after that there will be a new release published indefinitely on the first of each month. Q: Why did SNOMED International and the Community decide to change the release day to the first of the month? AA: There were multiple drivers for this change, from removing the ambiguity of release dates to preventing conflicts with certain types of extension content. However, the predominant reason is to improve the efficiency of the release cycles, in order to provide benefits such as additional time for those stakeholders who base their extension and derivatives on the International Edition releases. Q: What problems will the new release day solve? AA: As mentioned, it removes any confusion as to which date releases will be published (previously they could be on the 28th, 29th, 30th, or 31st). Q: What kind of stakeholder engagement did we conduct to get feedback on this change? AA: We have discussed this proposal at great length with a variety of stakeholders, across multiple conferences. We also published early visibility notifications in the recent April 2023 International Edition announcements and Release Notes, and put a notice in our Early Visibility page - both providing the means for users to share their comments with us: https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/2023+Early+Visibility+Release+Notifications Q: What impact does this have on national extensions or derivative releases? AA: This should have very little impact on extensions and derivatives, other than a positive one, which is to provide a bit of extra time for translations and migrations that are based on the “January” and “July” releases. That’s because these dependent releases will be brought forward from January 31 and July 31, to January 1 and July 1 respectively (instead of being moved back to February 1/August 1). This will prevent any confusion as to which releases are termed “January”/”July,” and will provide additional time for stakeholders to prepare their extension/derivative content that is dependent upon these releases. Q: What does this mean for the next monthly release? AA: The May 2023 International Edition release will be published as normal on May 31, as will the June and July releases (on June 30 and July 31 respectively). The first release on the first of the month will be published on September 1, 2023, and we will then continue to publish all subsequent releases on the first of each month. Concerns or questions? Email us at release@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

Ireland Joins IHTSDO as Member Back 9 Nov 2016 Back The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) announced today that Ireland had joined as its twenty-ninth Member. IHTSDO owns and administers SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive health terminology. Founded in 2007 by nine charter nations, IHTSDO is a strong member-owned and driven international organization. The addition of Ireland has grown the Membership to 29 countries and territories across five continents. Ireland decided to join IHTSDO after an extensive consultation process, which included a report from the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA). The report identified the adoption of a standard terminology such as SNOMED CT as essential to the implementation of the national Irish eHealth Strategy, as well as the risks associated with not adopting SNOMED CT. As IHTSDO’s newest Member, Ireland will enjoy benefits such as: Use of SNOMED CT within Ireland Management of the release, distribution, and sublicensing of SNOMED CT and other IHTSDO products within Ireland Representation on the IHTSDO General Assembly Access to forums and networks to share and learn from others’ experiences implementing and using the terminology “We are delighted to be the 29th Member of IHTSDO and we see this as an important step towards interoperability and connected health to support eHealth Ireland,” said Richard Corbridge CIO HSE, CEO eHealth Ireland. “As we strive to put in place the concepts of a ‘digital fabric’ for health, the Irish healthcare system understands the need for working on an international platform around standards and best practice.” “Ireland joins a global community with shared assets, common needs, and a commitment to exchanging experiences and working together on shared priorities,” said IHTSDO CEO Don Sweete. “We welcome them as a Member and look forward to further growing our Membership in 2017”. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

In 2012 the Czech Republic became a Member joining a global effort to develop, maintain, and enable the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. Czech Republic In 2012 the Czech Republic 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 / UZIS Palackého nám. 4 128 01 Prague 2 Czech Republic Telephone (secretary office): +420 224 972 712 Website: www.uzis.cz Licensing: https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/cz Email: Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Irena Molinari Member Forum: Irena Molinari and Miroslav Zvolský News articles The Czech Republic will make SNOMED CT available throughout the Czech Republic for use in electronic health records, health research, and other applications. Users of the terminology in the Czech Republic will also have access to new resources as they are developed. 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 and IHE forge inaugural agreement jointly supporting optimal patient care Back 5 Apr 2019 Back London, United Kingdom, April 5, 2019 -- Today, IHE International and SNOMED International formally announce a license agreement encouraging data consistency and interoperability across international boundaries, with benefits for clinical care, research and operational efficiency. An organization geared at improving the way computer systems in healthcare share information, IHE’s commitment to working with SNOMED International as the global leader in healthcare terminology promotes the coordinated use of established standards in support of optimal patient care. Through this agreement, the organizations have agreed on the production of a SNOMED CT IHE Set which includes a jointly decided upon set of SNOMED CT concepts and identifiers within IHE profiles. By placing the SNOMED CT codes referenced in IHE profiles under a free international license, the current agreement reduces incentives for national groups to specify variant code sets based on other terminologies. The SNOMED CT value sets specified in IHE profiles are selected to ensure data consistency and interoperability in support of a variety of clinical use cases. IHE profiles are developed in eleven active clinical and operational domains. SNOMED CT value sets referenced in these profiles are typically used to bind coded values to content in structured documents, discrete data elements and metadata. Approximately 30 IHE profiles reference SNOMED CT value sets as of the date of this agreement. Over the course of the 5 year agreement, the SNOMED CT IHE Set will be updated officially annually, taking into account updates to the IHE profiles which are performed annually in each IHE domain. Thirty-seven profiles within 6 domains currently fall within the scope of the agreement. Phast-Services, based in Paris, France, will serve as experts on behalf of IHE to maintain the SNOMED CT IHE Set. ”For 20 years, IHE has pursued collaboration to advance standards-based interoperability in health information technology,” said Michael, McCoy, MD, Co-chair of the IHE International Board. “This agreement with SNOMED International marks a significant milestone toward making standards more accessible and usable.” From SNOMED International, “we are excited and encouraged to embark on this license agreement with IHE International”, said Don Sweete, the organization’s CEO. “Cooperation and accord among the world’s health standards organizations has never been more critical. The like-mindedness of our two organizations in aspiring to enable the clear exchange of information clearly supports the validity of our agreement to work together.” Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

New Zealand is represented in SNOMED International by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. New Zealand New Zealand is represented in SNOMED International by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. Contact Details Health New Zealand 133 Molesworth Street PO Box 793 Wellington 6140 New Zealand Website: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz Email: standards@tewhatuora.govt.nz Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Alastair Kenworthy Member Forum: Mia van Dorp, Evan Li News articles There is more energy than ever in rolling out SNOMED CT as the key information standard for an equitable, data-driven and digitally-transformed health and social system in Aotearoa New Zealand. SNOMED CT implementation is central to an interoperability roadmap supporting the New Zealand Health Strategy, Pae Ora Healthy Futures reforms and national digital health programme, with their long-term goals of achieving health equity and improving health outcomes for all New Zealanders. The focus over the next three years is the primary and community sector, where health providers are migrating their systems to SNOMED CT as they introduce new models of care, become data-driven and use technology to reduce workforce pressures. SNOMED also plays a vital part in the New Zealand adaptation of the International Patient Summary standard, which allows consumers to tell their health story in digital form and streamlines their interactions with health services. More information about SNOMED CT in New Zealand can be accessed here: www.tewhatuora.govt.nz 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 recognizes and celebrates 2023 Lifetime Achievement and Award for Excellence winners Back 21 Dec 2023 Back As 2023 draws to a close, SNOMED International recognizes its 2023 Lifetime Achievement and Award for Excellence winners SNOMED International recently awarded two Lifetime Achievement and two Awards for Excellence at its 2023 Awards Gala held in conjunction with SNOMED CT Expo 2023 in Atlanta, GA. Vivian Auld, Dr. Keith E Campbell, Pim Volkert and W. Scott Campbell recognized. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals for outstanding, sustained contribution in the development and promotion of SNOMED CT and overall global leadership in the terminology field. The Award of Excellence is given for outstanding contribution to the improvement of SNOMED CT and its successful implementation in health and social care. Lifetime Achievement Award winner Vivian Auld The first award in this category was given to Vivian Auld, Senior Specialist for Health Data Standards (retired) at the US National Library of Medicine. Vivian, who was involved with US federal strategy for terminology standards for electronic health records since the early 1990s, worked at the US National Library of Medicine for almost three decades, where she focused on supporting the nationwide implementation of an interoperable health information technology infrastructure to improve the overall quality and efficiency of health care. She was also an active member of the team that developed and executed the strategy which led to the inclusion and acceptance of SNOMED CT in US health data policy, and played a role in discussions about global adoption of SNOMED CT. Vivian has been and remains an advocate for the equal rights of all SNOMED International Members regardless of size or wealth and an ambassador for SNOMED CT adoption and implementation. Lifetime Achievement Award winner Dr Keith E Campbell The second award in this category went to Keith E. Campbell, MD, PhD, Program Director, US Food and Drug Administration’s Systemic Harmonization and Interoperability Enhancement for Laboratory Data program. Keith was a key member of the original SNOMED CT Design Team created in 1999 following the agreement between the College of American Pathologists and the UK NHS to merge SNOMED RT with NHS Clinical Terms Version 3. As a member of SNOMED International’s original Editorial Board, Keith continued his contribution to the SNOMED Technical Design Team that produced the original distribution format and its evolution into RF2, including the reference set mechanism that today enables the graceful evolution of SNOMED CT to support broader use cases and extensibility requirements. Award for Excellence winner Pim Volkert Clinical data architecture coordinator (formerly head of the Netherlands SNOMED CT National Release Centre) Pim Volkert, a long-time ambassador and driving force for SNOMED CT in the Netherlands, also drove the translation of SNOMED CT into the Dutch language. All of these efforts resulted in the Netherlands’ adoption of SNOMED CT as the preferred terminology. Pim is also the clinical data coordinator of Health-RI, a Netherlands national program to build a national and integrated health data infrastructure for research and innovation. Award for Excellence winner W. Scott Campbell W. Scott Campbell, Associate Professor at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was nominated for his work in implementing electronic health record systems in ambulatory care practices and his leadership capabilities as a terminologist and implementation specialist, bringing together, educating and guiding a large group of pathologists, terminologists and other specialists. “The SNOMED International Awards Gala, where we recognize and celebrate those SNOMED CT community members who have made outstanding contributions to the development and implementation of the clinical terminology, is always one of the biggest highlights of our yearly Expo,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete . “Although there are always many worthy contenders, we salute the four chosen this year, each of whom has played such a pivotal role in the ongoing development and success of SNOMED CT globally.” About SNOMED International SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns and develops SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive healthcare terminology product. We play an essential role in improving the health of humankind by determining standards for a codified language that represents groups of clinical terms. This enables healthcare information to be exchanged globally for the benefit of patients and other stakeholders. We are committed to the rigorous evolution of our products and services, to deliver continuous innovation for the global healthcare community. SNOMED International is the trading name of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. https://www.snomed.org/ 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 and LOINC® announce renewed collaboration agreement and upcoming production release of the LOINC Ontology Back 11 Mar 2025 Back SNOMED International and LOINC® by Regenstrief announce their renewed agreement and upcoming production release of the LOINC ® Ontology: A LOINC and SNOMED CT interoperability solution . Renewed commitment Although the main focus of the renewed collaboration agreement is the release of the LOINC Ontology, it also continues the work initiated in 2022, including the adoption of working practices that facilitate the use and interoperability of the terminology standards both organizations produce. It will also focus on ensuring that stakeholders/users globally have clear direction on the use of the standards, whether together or individually, and that an effective interoperability solution is available to users when both standards are implemented in the same system. The upcoming release is the result of the renewed collaboration between the two organizations that began in 2022 and continued in 2023 with the technical preview of the ontology , building on the relationship formed more than a decade ago. The ontology, colloquially referred to as the LOINC Extension, is slated for release at the end of March 2025 and will initially cover quantitative laboratory tests. After the initial production release, Regenstrief plans to issue the release twice a year (March and September) following the twice annual LOINC release . To keep up to date on important project news including informational release webinars, subscribe to receive updates . What is the LOINC Ontology? The LOINC Ontology supports providers and users who implement different combinations of SNOMED CT and LOINC in health information systems and allows them to meet clinical and regulatory requirements in a single solution. An extension of SNOMED CT’s ontological framework, the ontology creates SNOMED CT and LOINC codes for all concepts that are shared between the terminologies. SNOMED CT provides the computable framework and LOINC provides laboratory and pathology content in an understood format to countries that do not currently use LOINC. The goals of the collaboration are to improve health and better care through standardized terminology and to make it easy for implementers to take a unified approach to implementing both standards. It minimizes duplication of effort between Regenstrief and SNOMED International, gives implementers a choice of which codes to use, and provides a single solution that meets clinical and regulatory requirements globally. As part of this joint effort, SNOMED International subject matter experts have worked with the LOINC team to provide ontological guidance, modelling, relevant content specialization and technical support. Regenstrief, however, continues to own and manage the ontology. The March 2025 release will include more than 35,000 concepts, including quantitative lab tests and the top 200 most used lab tests ordered. Domains of information (lab, clinical, documents, radiology, survey instruments) will be added incrementally. We will link existing SNOMED CT concepts to existing LOINC content where applicable and new LOINC codes will be created as needed. LOINC Parts will be mapped to SNOMED concepts, and new SNOMED CT concepts will be created as needed. Over the next few months, both organizations will also focus on developing implementation resources, including jointly developed guidance, tangible pilots and opportunities for community engagement, to better understand implementers’ experiences. LOINC , short for Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes, is a worldwide standard used in 193 countries and available in 20 languages for identifying health measurements, observations and documents enabling the identification, exchange and collection of data across health systems. Created and maintained at Regenstrief Institute , the system is free to use. SNOMED CT , with more than 360,000 concepts, is the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. “It is extremely gratifying to see the progress that the LOINC and SNOMED CT teams have made over the past year in developing the production release of the LOINC Ontology,” says SNOMED International Chief Executive Officer Don Sweete. “While our end goal is, jointly, to support the delivery of better patient care worldwide, a big piece of that is enabling providers and other users of the ontology with a less complex, more integrated approach that eliminates the challenges posed by using two separate health data standards.” The upcoming release of the LOINC Ontology reflects the strength and dedication of our partnership with SNOMED International,” says Marjorie Rallins, DPM, M.S., Executive Director of LOINC and Health Data Standards at Regenstrief. “By combining the robust capabilities of both standards, we’re delivering an integrated solution that simplifies implementation for healthcare providers and promotes seamless data exchange. This collaboration is a pivotal step toward improving interoperability and supporting better health outcomes globally.” Visit snomed.org and loinc.org for more information on each standard. Visit loincsnomed.org for more information on the LOINC Ontology and review the frequently asked questions . Contacts: Regenstrief Institute John Erickson Email: prteam@regenstrief.org SNOMED International Kelly Kuru Email: comms@snomed.org Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

SNOMED International announces Entity Linking Challenge winners Back 12 Apr 2024 Back SNOMED International is pleased to announce the winners of its recent Entity Linking Challenge. The challenge, which ran from the beginning of January 2024 to March 5, 2024, was hosted and organized by SNOMED International , and included partner organizations; DrivenData , which hosts online data science competitions; AI consultancy Veratai ; and Physionet , the Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals. The goal of the challenge was to train machine learning models to link clinical notes with specific topics based on the largest publicly available dataset of labeled clinical notes that had been de-identified and annotated with SNOMED CT concepts. Since much of the world's healthcare data is stored in free-text documents (usually clinical notes taken by doctors), unstructured data can be challenging for clinicians, researchers and other stakeholders to analyze and extract meaningful insights from. The results of the challenge demonstrate that by applying a standardized terminology like SNOMED CT, healthcare organizations can convert this free-text data into a structured format that can be readily analyzed by computers, in turn stimulating the development of new medicines, treatment pathways, and better patient outcomes. The challenge, which was open to teams and individuals in any field, offered a share of $25,000 in prize money to the top three winners. Participants could chart their progress against each other on a leaderboard, fostering a spirit of healthy competition. “SNOMED International thanks all the organizations that worked with us on this initiative and all of those who entered and completed the challenge,” said CEO Don Sweete. “The better we understand how SNOMED CT can be used to analyze and extract meaning from clinical notes, the greater impact it will have. This competition will result in the development of tools and techniques that can be shared within the SNOMED CT and broader health standards and research communities and used to unlock and supercharge the clinical data currently captured in free text. That is how we demonstrate the deep capabilities of SNOMED CT, whether to support the interoperability of patient records or to mine clinical data for a multitude of research purposes.” The entrants and winners A total of 553 individuals participated in the challenge, all of whom were part of teams. Of those, approximately 40 submitted the final data required. Some entrants compete in a variety of machine learning and artificial intelligence challenges beyond the healthcare industry, augmenting awareness of SNOMED CT in other sectors. Winners were selected based on a complex mathematical scoring mechanism which established a winning benchmark of which three winning teams surpassed. Congratulations to: First place winners ($12,500): Guy Amit , Yonatan Bilu , Irena Girshovitz and Chen Yanover ( KI Institute , Israel) Second place winners ($7,500): Gleb Sokolov , Mikhail Kulyabin and Aleksandr Galaida (Erlangen, Germany and Yerevan, Armenia) Third place winners ($5,000): Vincenzo Della Mea , Mihai Horia Popescu and Kevin Roitero ( Medical Informatics, Telemedicine & eHealth Lab , Italy) For more information on the winners, the benchmark solution and the competition metric, read a recent blog authored by DrivenData . SNOMED International Chief Digital Information Officer Rory Davidson said, “as this is the first time the organization has hosted a competition like this, it was difficult to predict the level of interest and participation from the community. We are extremely pleased to have received so many entrants, especially considering the niche nature of entity linking with SNOMED CT itself.” Rory elaborated to say, “one of the rewarding outcomes is that there have been individuals and teams taking part who would likely never have crossed paths with SNOMED CT and entity linking if we had not run the competition. By introducing SNOMED CT to new communities that we haven’t worked with before, we can share the message of how the terminology can be used alongside different AI technologies to improve the quality of healthcare data.” Veratai AI Consultant Will Hardman added that while there are many existing entity linking approaches and models, there are very few high-performance, well-trained sets of entity linking models in the public domain that serve a variety of use cases. Going into this challenge, he said he expected three potential outcomes: the first, the stimulation of research into building good open source entity linking models; the second, teaching people who build entity linking models how to extract knowledge from the target knowledge base and use that to help inform the selection of concepts; and the third, the creation of a good, publicly available, SNOMED CT-coded data set. Tom Joseph Pollard, Research Scientist at MIT and Technical Director of PhysioNet, said “the availability of annotated health data is crucial for advancing patient care and medical research. Pollard went on to say, “the manual annotation of data with standardized concepts remains a demanding and labor-intensive task. Through this partnership, PhysioNet and SNOMED International worked alongside the global research community to establish new benchmarks in entity linking. The challenge highlights the considerable potential of advances in artificial intelligence to transform the process of annotation, paving the way for medical research innovations that could ultimately improve patient outcomes.” Next steps SNOMED International will review the results of the challenge to better understand what can be learned from it. One of the known outcomes is that the artifacts produced from the process, such as annotation guidelines and lessons learned, will be shared with SNOMED International Members and the wider community. The winning solutions will also be published and open source so they will be freely available. “The Entity Linking Challenge won’t result in something concrete that you can plug into your system tomorrow, but the lessons learned are invaluable and help us better understand and inform the extensive capabilities of SNOMED CT,” Rory said. The completion of the competition marks the end of a years-long planning process – and potentially the beginning of additional endeavors to illustrate and harness the power of SNOMED CT in healthcare data analytics. SNOMED International is currently reviewing what future competitions may be, including being based on a different dataset, challenge or even a language. The challenges of hosting such competitions include finding a suitable dataset and potential partners, and identifying a repeatable, manageable and formulaic scoring mechanism. Visit the Entity Linking Challenge website for more information. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

The AMA and SNOMED International Launch Joint Demonstration Project Back 12 Aug 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. CHICAGO, August 12, 2020 -- The American Medical Association (AMA) and SNOMED International announced a concrete demonstration of how Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) and SNOMED CT work together to enable better outcomes and enhanced resource utilization throughout the health ecosystem. The AMA-SNOMED International demonstration project underscores the power of the two terminologies together – providing a clear path from clinical documentation to resource utilization insights. The demonstration tool will highlight how health care administrators can leverage both code sets to align resources to population needs in complex clinical areas such as breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. Both serving a specific purpose, the AMA’s CPT codes are vital to health care administration and classification in the United States, while SNOMED CT serves as the global standard for clinical terminology. At a broad level, the AMA-SNOMED International collaboration aims to improve integration between the CPT and SNOMED CT terminologies, by producing tools for physician practices, hospitals, payers, and other stakeholders to better organize healthcare data. The goal of this joint initiative is to provide opportunities for health care stakeholders to explore additional scenarios, capture new insights, and evaluate how the combined terminologies can be used to strengthen care in their health care systems. To this end, the AMA and SNOMED International have engaged in this joint initiative to explore creating a demonstration space, or sandbox, where clinical analytics scenarios can be demonstrated and, in the future, run securely. “The AMA is focused on improving access to data for solutions to the challenges of an aging population that is growing, a rise in chronic conditions and co-morbidities, and an increasingly burdened healthcare workforce,” said AMA Executive Vice President and CEO James Madara, M.D. “The AMA’s collaboration with SNOMED International supports the shift to digitization and will help the health care industry optimize resources and increase efficiencies as it works towards achieving better patient outcomes, improved access and lower costs.” “The American Medical Association is a valued partner and I am pleased that we have continued to evolve our relationship since our first collaboration was signed in 2016” offered SNOMED CT CEO, Don Sweete. “Our next chapter will focus on demonstrating the clinical analytics benefit from using data coded with SNOMED CT, as well as how integration between SNOMED CT and CPT provide key information to support the efficient and cost-effective management of healthcare organizations.” A committed supporter and participant of the SNOMED CT Expo , the AMA continues to bring its focus on data driven solutions through thought leadership at the conference. Over the course of this year’s Expo, taking place October 8-9, the AMA will share how to leverage SNOMED CT Encoded Data to Design, Implement and Track Remote Monitoring Programs through a CPT Code Set Use Case as well as the approach to Aligning Clinician Priorities with Terminology and Standards Development . Matt Menning, director of engagement for the AMA’s Integrated Health Model Initiative, along with other key AMA ambassadors will lead the community through these sessions. Both organizations are dedicated to the pursuit of unambiguous exchange of clinical information. Together they seek to address the health system’s emerging need for greater integration in support of interoperability as well as health and resource data analytics. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

The Ministry of Health is the governing instance and leader of the National Health System, guaranteeing coverage of timely and comprehensive services. El Salvador The Ministry of Health is the governing instance and leader of the National Health System, guaranteeing coverage of timely and comprehensive services. Contact Details Centro Nacional Habilitador SNOMED Phone: +503 25917011 Email: snomed@salud.gob.sv Appointed Representatives General Assembly: William Hoyos Arango Member Forum: Herber Hernandez Trejo, William Hoyos Arango News articles In accordance with the law of the National Integrated Health System, in 2020, the Ministry of Health set itself the challenge to strengthen the digital transformation of the health sector. During this collaborative process it had the participation of all the actors in the system and based on a situational diagnosis, conceived a vision of the future of digital health. This vision of the future is complemented by the identification of critical success factors to achieve it. Among the activities carried out, the infrastructure of syntactic and semantic interoperability processes and the organization’s information repositories stand out. The Ministry of Health of El Salvador will coordinate and lead the participation and contribution of the actors of the health system in the activities and tasks related to SNOMED international, will execute a strategy of socialization and adoption in the health environment of the country and forms the National Center of Habilitation of SNOMED CT clinical terminology. The registration and systematization of clinical data under the terminology service will allow the adequate analysis of multiple variables, guaranteeing complete, timely, verifiable, reliable, and quality information, giving rise to a lower number of sub-registrations, and generating benefits that in the short term will lead to having an updated and truthful information system for monitoring, epidemiological surveillance and timely decision making. 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 CT is a best-in-class, core clinical reference terminology that is well-designed, comprehensive, serves multiple uses, is widely adopted, and enables improved patient outcomes. SNOMED CT adds measurable value leveraging in delivering improved patient outcomes. The value of SNOMED CT As the most comprehensive clinical terminology in use around the world, the implementation and adoption of SNOMED CT can enable a multitude of benefits for health systems globally. Explore our interactive platform Learn more about the case for investment in SNOMED CT: View the materials Stream the Value Series The case for investment: SNOMED CT In 2020, SNOMED International released its 2020-2025 Strategy and identified the need to revisit the value proposition for key stakeholder groups as well as illustrating the case for investment in SNOMED CT for Nations, health systems, vendors, etc., globally. The product of this analysis is shared here. Learn more Case for Investment Materials Download the following excerpts of the Case for Investment in SNOMED CT Executive Summary About SNOMED International and SNOMED CT The Value of SNOMED CT for stakeholders The SNOMED CT Case for Investment SNOMED CT Case Studies Appendices Learn more The benefits SNOMED CT-based clinical information benefits individual patients and clinicians as well as populations while supporting evidence-based care. Electronic health records The use of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) improves communication and increases the availability of relevant and critical clinical information. When clinical information is stored in a way that allows meaning-based retrieval, the benefits are greatly increased. These benefits range from increased opportunities for real-time decision support to more accurate retrospective reporting for research, data analytics, precision medicine, and management. Learn more Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice 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 Benefits to individuals SNOMED CT-enabled clinical health records benefit individuals by: Enabling clinical information to be recorded consistently Enabling support systems to check the record and provide real-time advice Supporting the sharing of appropriate information with others involved in delivering care, allowing the understanding of the information in a common way by all providers Allowing accurate and comprehensive analysis that identifies patients who require follow-up or changes in treatment Removing language barriers – SNOMED CT enables multilingual use Benefits to populations SNOMED CT enabled clinical health records benefit populations by: Facilitating early identification of emerging health issues, monitoring of population health, and agile response to changing clinical practices Enabling accurate access to relevant information, reducing costly duplications and errors Enabling the delivery of relevant data to support clinical research and contribute evidence for future improvements in treatment Enhancing audits of care delivery with options for detailed analysis of clinical records to investigate outliers and exceptions Evidence-based healthcare SNOMED CT enabled clinical health records benefit populations by: Enabling links between clinical records and enhanced clinical guidelines and protocols. Enhancing the quality of care experienced by individuals. Reducing costs of inappropriate and duplicative testing and treatment, limiting the frequency and impact of adverse healthcare events. Raising the cost-effectiveness and quality of care delivered to populations. A quality approach Maintaining the quality of SNOMED CT is of core importance and is rigorously undertaken by the organization on an ongoing basis. We ensure a quality approach through: Expert personnel: Experienced authors, with clinical backgrounds, across varied domains Guidance and training: Editorial and mapping guidelines, customer guidance Process: Automated rules validation, pattern evaluation Collaboration: Alignment with standards, SME groups, stakeholders SNOMED International engages in processes to undertake a broader examination across all hierarchies. Through our Quality Initiative, we adopt a greater focus on correcting structural anomalies as well as modification of content, resulting in a higher level of clinical accuracy. The business case Membership and national use of SNOMED CT offers a number of advantages: Reductions in inappropriate or duplicate clinical testing Reduction in adverse drug events Improved management of key disease groups, such as cardiac care and oncology; and, Cost savings in terminology development, licensing fees, and transcription costs of mapping to ICD or other coding systems. Review the business case for SNOMED CT summary to learn more about these benefits and how to build your own business case for sustaining and expanding investments in SNOMED CT to drive health system improvements SNOMED CT Value Series The SNOMED CT Value Series profiles real world, first person accounts of how SNOMED CT has been implemented in global health systems, and the value it has delivered. The first chapter of the Value Series outlines the implementation journey of the Canterbury District Health Board in New Zealand, highlighting how SNOMED CT has supported its current and future success. An integrated health system powered by structured data Full-Length Summary Addressing clinical issues Improving safety and efficiency Electronic health records Individuals Populations Evidence-based healthcare The business case

SNOMED International maintains and distributes a range of other products to its Members, licensees and stakeholders. Products include extensions and derivative SNOMED CT products, while others are products available outside of the SNOMED CT licensing model, such as GPS and IPS Terminology. Other SNOMED products SNOMED International maintains and distributes a range of other products to its Members, licensees and other users. These products include extensions and derivative SNOMED CT products, while others are global products available outside of the traditional SNOMED CT licensing model. The International Patient Summary Terminology SNOMED International is committed to extending the core of SNOMED CT’s structured clinical terminology to deliver an open, standalone sub-ontology to support the scope of content within the International Patient Summary . Learn more Global Patient Set The Global Patient Set will support the cross-border movement of information, and ultimately health system interoperability. A managed list of existing unique identifiers, fully specified names (FSN), preferred terms in international English, and status flag, the Global Patient Set will be available at no cost to users. Learn more Global Patient Set Bahmni + SNOMED CT MLDS is a service provided by SNOMED International for organizations and individuals to request use and access to the International Release of SNOMED CT for use in non-Member countries. Learn more SNOMED CT Spanish Edition Contains the Spanish language version of the SNOMED CT® International Edition and is released in April and October following the SNOMED CT® International Edition release. Learn more Learn more Events Annual Business Meetings, Expo, and SNOMED CT Web Series 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 Member extensions A benefit of SNOMED International membership is the ability to create a SNOMED CT national extension to reflect local policy and priorities through structured terminology. Browse member extensions Derivative products These products are derived from SNOMED CT® International Edition content, and which SNOMED International maintains and distributes to its Members and licensees. Review derivative product releases Free sets Free sets, a specific type of Derivative product, contain only the SNOMED CT identifier (SCTID) and fully specified name (FSN) for each record in the refset, and so can be distributed to anyone with or without a license. Review free set releases IPS GPS Bahmni + SNOMED Spanish Edition Extensions Derivative products Free sets