SNOMED CT Certification is now available for Authoring Level 1 Back 23 Oct 2019 Back SNOMED International has launched a new certification program to acknowledge high quality SNOMED CT authoring capabilities in the community. The new SNOMED CT authoring level 1 certification recognizes competence in performing basic SNOMED CT authoring tasks. This certification is valid for 3 years, and will be a prerequisite for advancing to the SNOMED CT authoring level 2 course and certification. How do I get certified? To achieve this certification, candidates must pass the authoring level 1 certification exam. This exam requires candidates to demonstrate the authoring level 1 competencies in a securely proctored online environment. Are there prerequisites? Before enrolling in the certification exam, candidates must have passed the SNOMED CT foundation course. We also recommend that you complete the SNOMED CT authoring level 1 course, as this course was designed to prepare you for the exam. How do I enrol? To enrol in any SNOMED CT course or certification exam, please visit the SNOMED CT course catalogue at https://courses.ihtsdotools.org . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

GS1 Back GS1 Standards Partner In April 2016, IHTSDO and GS1 signed a Collaboration Agreement focusing on specific areas of joint work, building on a previous Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) established to facilitate liaison between the two organizations and committing to closer working to ensure compatibility between our respective standards where appropriate. The agreement will be reviewed and evaluated to explore how the two organizations may continue to collaborate in 2023. Additional information The focus of the 2016 agreement is: Development of guidance/principles for linking SNOMED CT and GTINs that can be applied at the national/local level Exploring options, feasibility and benefits for a technical solution/model at international level to support local/national linkage between SNOMED CT and GTINs. This will come out of the guidance/principles work. An Expert Group assisted in the work, based on their requirements for the principles/guidance at a national level. The agreed Scope and Purpose statement and Use Cases for the SNOMED CT to GS1 linkage work as well as the draft Principles are available in the links below. Draft Principles (20170324) Use Cases (20170324) GS1 and IHTSDO Collaboration work: Scope Statement 20160728 Press Release: April 2016: New Global Collaboration between GS1 and IHTSDO Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

AMA and SNOMED International announce the validation of new SNOMED CT and CPT cross maps Back 28 Mar 2022 Back Since the date of issue, this information is now out of date and has been archived. It has been made available for reference. The American Medical Association (AMA) and SNOMED International announce the validation of the AMA’s Current Procedural Terminology (CPT ®) to SNOMED CT® cross maps. This validation exercise is the latest in a series of steps to enhance the bi-directional, rules-based cross maps that deliver better data transparency to enable heath systems to pinpoint efficiencies along care pathways and optimize resource utilization management to achieve better health outcomes. Tighter integration of the AMA’s CPT ® to SNOMED CT brings the power of two global medical terminologies to health systems seeking to gain resource utilization insights, administration analytics and physician compensation data linkage to their clinical documentation. Health systems deploying SNOMED CT will be able to leverage these connections to CPT content and unlock answers from their onslaught of complex clinical data more easily. The collaboration between AMA and SNOMED International aims to improve integration between the CPT and SNOMED CT terminologies by producing solutions for governments, hospitals, clinical practices, researchers and other stakeholders to help organize and utilize healthcare data better. As both terminologies continue to evolve to keep pace with modern medicine, they agree that an increasingly common medical language elevates the potential for even more medical innovation around the globe. The AMA and SNOMED International plan is to continue make health data enhancements to support medical innovation and use-case changes. Both organizations encourage health care stakeholders to join our conversation to share the new ideas, to explore new data paths and to evaluate how the combined terminologies can be used best to drive more value to their health care systems. “Health systems as a whole, require health-related data standards that are credible, comprehensive, and developed using collaborative, rigorous, and evidence-based processes,” said the AMA’s Lori Prestesater, Vice President of Health Solutions. “The AMA’s collaboration with SNOMED supports the shift to digitization and will help the healthcare industry optimize resources and increase efficiencies as it works towards achieving better patient outcomes, and improved patient and clinician experiences, all at a lower cost.” “As we continue to observe, there are many moving parts to achieving optimal information flow, data quality, and user satisfaction across regional, national and international healthcare systems,” offers Don Sweete, SNOMED International CEO. “Fulfilling a strategic objective to facilitate and integrate terminology standards and classifications, our ongoing mapping and validation activities with AMA is a prime example of two organizations working together to enhance and streamline the health and care ecosystem for the benefit of users and care recipients.” 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

Position Statement: SNOMED CT to ICD-11-MMS Map Back 3 Nov 2017 Back Since the date of issue, this information is now out of date and has been archived. It has been made available for reference. SNOMED CT® is a global clinical terminology, created for use in health records for recording relevant clinical information to support patient care, sharing and analysis of information. SNOMED CT® is a terminology that can be cross-mapped to other international terminologies, classifications and code systems where there is a requirement. A key organizational requirement is to link SNOMED CT® to the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to support various reporting needs of SNOMED International Members, Affiliates and WHO Member States. SNOMED International provides this position statement describing the proposed SNOMED CT to the International Classification of Diseases Eleventh Revision for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics (ICD-11-MMS) Map and includes an overview for its development. The goal of the project is to produce an understandable, reproducible and useful SNOMED CT to ICD-11- MMS map. This Position Statement is for policy makers or equivalent agencies, SNOMED International stakeholder groups, Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), SNOMED CT® implementers, classification users, and software vendors. Read the position statement Please contact info@snomed.org for additional information. 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 COVID-19 content added to the Global Patient Set Back 12 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. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization formally characterized Coronavirus, COVID-19, as a global pandemic and health systems globally are continuing their efforts to manage the outbreak. SNOMED International recently announced an interim release of the SNOMED CT International Edition outside of its customary release cycle to include updated COVID-19 content as a means of lending its support to the ongoing global effort. Without reservation, SNOMED International will also include this COVID-19 content, in its recently released Global Patient Set (GPS), a managed list of existing SNOMED CT unique identifiers, fully specified names (FSN), preferred terms in international English, and status flags, made available at no cost to users. Please note, this content will appear as part of the GPS in the next release in September 2020, but is now available and can be used under the same open license, (the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). Following the announcement from WHO regarding the Emergency use of ICD-10 codes for the COVID-19 disease outbreak, the map record is also included in the March 2020 interim SNOMED CT International Edition release. Learn more about the GPS and access provided resources on SNOMED International’s Global Patient Set information page . For more information, contact 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

SNOMED CT Expo 2026: Program available and early registration closes August 7 Back 16 Jun 2026 Back SNOMED International is pleased to announce that registration for SNOMED Expo 202 6 is now open. The Expo will be held from October 21-23, 2026 at the InterContinental Sydney hotel in Sydney, Australia, preceded by the October 2026 Business Meetings . SNOMED CT Expo unites clinical terminology SMEs from around the world, including government officials, health IT professionals, health practitioners, researchers, academics and vendors. Discover how SNOMED CT enables data driven health systems and improved patient outcomes from a wide range of global implementers. Please click here to view the program and save with Early-Bird registration and room rates. Early-Bird registration closes August 7th, 2026 (11:59 AEST). Please note that due to the AEDT time zone, the 2026 Expo will not be live streamed. Sessions will be recorded and shared on our Youtube channel shortly after the event (with no registration needed). Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

2022 marks a year of continued progress and growth for SNOMED International, SNOMED CT Back 11 May 2023 Back SNOMED International recently released its 2022 Annual Report , which presents the organization’s progress against the SNOMED International 2020-2025 strategy , details its activities over the past year, and provides a record of the year’s financial position. Titled Collaborating for Impact: The Achievements of a Dynamic Global Community , the 2022 Annual Report details our extensive activities throughout the year with various stakeholders across the globe, including the addition of 3 new SNOMED International Members. It also includes a number of global success stories, each focusing on SNOMED CT initiatives that helped our Members achieve specific outcomes. The report highlights the organization’s new and renewed collaboration agreements, including the highly anticipated collaboration agreement between SNOMED International and LOINC from Regenstrief which paves the way forward for coordinated use of SNOMED CT and LOINC by both organizations. As well, it captures the content enhancements made over the year and the activities enabling those enhancements. Likewise, it charts our innovative approaches to developing new tools to support stakeholders and optimize the benefits of SNOMED CT implementation and to making SNOMED CT available to more users than ever through regional licensing. Lastly, the 2022 Annual Report highlights our return to in-person engagement, including convening two sets of business meetings and the 2022 SNOMED CT Expo in Portugal, all offered as hybrid events. It also details our participation in and attendance at numerous external thought leadership conferences to connect with current and prospective SNOMED CT users, promoting the benefits of the terminology. We are grateful to our Members and many stakeholder communities for the important role they played in 2022 to advance our shared goals of creating one language of health. To read the 2022 Annual Report, visit www.snomed.org . For more information, contact us at info@snomed.org Media inquiries Kelly Kuru SNOMED International Email: comms@snomed.org Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

HL7 and IHTSDO Strengthen Collaboration Back 23 Sept 2014 Back Since the date of issue, this information is now out of date and has been archived. It has been made available for reference. Ann Arbor, MI, USA and Copenhagen, Denmark – September 23, 2014 – Health Level Seven International (HL7) and IHTSDO today announced a two-year agreement to support the adoption of working practices that facilitate the use of IHTSDO standards with HL7 standards. This new agreement expands their collaborative relationship that began in 2009 and aims to improve healthcare on a global scale by advancing interoperability efforts. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

VCI and SNOMED Partner to Lower Barriers to Worldwide Adoption of SMART Health Cards Back 7 Sept 2022 Back When the Verifiable Clinical Information coalition (VCI) started working on SMART Health Cards in 2020, there was tremendous urgency to help communities cope with the impact of COVID-19. Subsequently, the focus shifted to empower individuals with a QR code giving them easy access to their own COVID-19 vaccination status so people could return to work, school, events, and international travel with trustworthy COVID-19 vaccination verification. At that time, agreement on COVID-19 terminology was still in its infancy, so the engineers behind SMART Health Cards had to be broad in the terminology they included in their framework. “We needed to take a kitchen-sink approach at that time,” explained Dr. Max Masnick, Digital Health Engineer at MITRE. But they knew this approach would come at a cost. “There was a burden for verifiers to have to support all of this,” noted Masnick. “We suspected that we’d eventually need to simplify.” In fall 2021, VCI established three criteria for streamlining the SMART Health Card terminology experience: investing in a partnership that’s not constrained by licensing so the process of streamlining terminology standardization doesn’t create unnecessary expenses for SMART Health Card implementers, finding a terminology partner with strong international recognition, whose library extends to other vaccines beyond COVID-19, and reducing engineering costs for international interoperability. One of VCI’s core design principles is interoperability because the coalition knows the future of better healthcare requires worldwide standards that engineers can rely on consistently and build solutions on more quickly. From healthcare providers and public health officials to electronic healthcare records vendors and cloud technology leaders, VCI coalition members believe in the importance of lowering costs through open, interoperable standards. SNOMED International checked all the boxes. So, earlier this year, Dr. Masnick and his colleagues at VCI approached SNOMED International. The two organizations began collaborating to lower the barrier for verifiers and help improve international adoption of SMART Health Cards by making the SNOMED international terminology standards for Covid-19 vaccines available from the SMART Health Cards GitHub repository under a Creative Commons license. SNOMED International’s COVID-19 vaccine terminology, publicly available on SNOMED International’s website , was released for SMART Health Cards developers in August — giving engineers everywhere the opportunity to take advantage of this technology and lowering the barrier for worldwide adoption of these equitable, privacy-preserving, open standards that help empower everyone with easy access to their health data. SMART Health Cards contain a secure QR code and may be saved digitally or printed on paper. “SNOMED International is a global leader in the clinical terminology space, so it was exciting when they agreed to partner with us on this effort,” said Dr. Brian Anderson, VCI Steering Committee Member and Chief Digital Health Physician, MITRE. “VCI is deeply appreciative of SNOMED International’s contribution and innovation to the ongoing development of SMART Health Cards.” “We are pleased to have joined VCI and to be making our COVID-19 vaccine concepts publicly available to SMART Health Cards developers. The rapid adoption of SMART Health Cards during the COVID-19 pandemic was inspiring to see, and we’re looking forward to helping expand adoption by connecting SMART Health Card implementers with the existing free and open access we’ve created to this terminology via the Global Patient Set .” Don Sweete, CEO, SNOMED International. Source: SNOMED CT Browser VCI is a voluntary coalition of more than 1,100 public and private organizations committed to empowering individuals with access to a trustworthy and verifiable copy of their vaccination records and other clinical information. SMART Health Cards enabled more than 225 million people in the United States and millions of people worldwide to have access to their vaccination records in less than one year. The speed of adoption was unprecedented, and the ability to help public health entities and private healthcare organizations modernize their data so quickly was an important first step. But international interoperability is an ongoing endeavor. That’s why VCI and SNOMED International are collaborating to extend access and make COVID-19 vaccine concepts publicly available on GitHub via the Creative Commons licensing approach supporting the organization’s Global Patient Set. Increasing standardization of COVID-19 vaccine clinical terms across the globe is an important building block that will ease the barrier to international adoption of SMART Health Cards and make worldwide interoperability easier to achieve. By pairing SNOMED International’s comprehensive clinical terminology expertise with the SMART Health Card standard, this partnership serves as a model for future pandemics as well as ongoing digital health information sharing. VCI and SNOMED International organizations are committed to the use of unambiguous clinical information for safe, efficient, and effective patient care. “This collaboration will help drive interoperability and openness globally, ensuring a safe, equitable standard like SMART Health Cards are accessible to all, irrespective of economic status,” noted Dr. Anderson. “Saving lives is our ultimate goal, and that requires making it possible for people to move across borders seamlessly while still keeping people safe. We’re pleased SNOMED International shares our commitment to protecting everyone and has joined us in this important journey.” SNOMED International will continue its efforts to support VCI with the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. Questions about this collaboration? Contact info@snomed.org 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

SNOMED International and INSERM sign third consecutive collaboration agreement Back 16 Dec 2024 Back SNOMED International and INSERM, the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research , have renewed a collaboration agreement initially established in 2015. The focus of the agreement continues to be on ensuring that rare diseases can be identified and recorded in a standard way globally and this is supported by the inclusion of rare disorders nomenclature content from Orphanet in SNOMED CT. Orphanet, the INSERM unit dedicated to knowledge on rare diseases, maintains the Orphanet nomenclature of rare diseases (ORPHAcodes) and provides a multilingual database of information related to rare diseases and orphan drugs. Orphanet is a network of 40 countries, committed to improving the recognition, information and knowledge to improve rare diseases patients’ lives. The Orphanet nomenclature of rare diseases is a key resource facilitating primary and secondary use of rare disease data supporting care, research and public health. It is the only rare disease specific medical terminology, constantly evolving as knowledge evolves, with the contribution of rare disease experts from around the world. Orphanet operates under the joint authority of the French Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Health and Medical Research. INSERM is a public scientific and technological institute dedicated to biomedical research and human health, including rare diseases, and is involved in the entire range of activities from the laboratory to the patient's bedside and to public health. SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. It is used in 80 countries, representing a third of the global population. SNOMED International is committed to supporting interoperability across the healthcare sector globally, facilitating terminology integration and improving safe patient care. Effective October 2024, the agreement builds on prior collaboration agreements (2015 and 2020) intended to raise the visibility of rare diseases in terminologies and promote interoperability between organizations and countries using different coding systems. The collaboration has already delivered Orphanet rare disease content into the SNOMED CT International release and a linkage between SNOMED CT and Orphanet. The new collaboration agreement continues the work to maintain and update the alignment between SNOMED CT and Orphanet. In addition, both organisations are committed to supporting those requiring and using rare disease content to facilitate better patient care, precision medicine and research. Implementation is key to enable a global picture of rare diseases to provide understanding and allow improved patient management. “The ongoing renewal of our collaboration with INSERM demonstrates that we are building on a foundation of trust and achievement that has successfully delivered SNOMED CT content and product improvement,” said SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “We look forward to another five years of successfully working together to achieve our mutual goals to globally improve and transform healthcare delivery for patients and clinicians in the rare diseases domain.” Katrien Scheerlinck, Senior Expert Health Standards at the Belgium National Release Centre, said, “The integration of rare diseases concepts from Orphanet offers a significant administrative simplification in our case. What currently requires additional administrative resources can now automatically flow into our scientific registers and statistics. Academic hospitals and research centres are extremely enthusiastic about this forward-looking solution and simplification." Theresa Barry, Clinical Terminology Architecture Lead, (Téarmaíocht Chliniciúil Ceannaire Ailtireachta), Ireland said, “Having the Orphanet codes in SNOMED made available with a mapping file is going to be transformational for the collection of data for rare diseases, allowing registries and statistics to seamlessly flow data that will benefit patients and researchers. This approach is widely acknowledged as being progressive and beneficial, to all stakeholders.” “This renewed collaboration with SNOMED International aligns with Orphanet’s strategy of contributing to the creation of an interoperable rare disease data ecosystem. ORPHAcodes are the common language between countries and between sectors, for a better recognition of rare diseases, data production and knowledge generation, bringing health data to registries and data spaces. This cannot be achieved without the sustained collaboration with SNOMED since 2015, a collaboration of which we are proud,” said Dr Ana Rath, Orphanet Director. Media Inquiries Inserm, US14 - Orphanet Charlotte Rodwell Email: media.orphanet@inserm.fr 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

2024 Annual Report highlights the year's achievements and activities Back 13 May 2025 Back The SNOMED International 2024 Annual Report is now available. The document, which chronicles the organization’s key activities over the past year, wraps up the 2020-2025 strategy with a reflection on and an accounting of our goals for the five-year period and our successes meeting those objectives. The report outlines a number of first-time endeavours for the organization in 2024 and the benefits realized from those activities, such as formally joining the Bahmni Coalition , hosting an Entity Linking Challenge and delivery of a one-day SNOMED CT in Europe conference. A read through the 2024 report also reveals another increasingly important theme echoed over the past year – in particular, the need to better understand advanced technologies and how to harness them for the benefit of SNOMED CT users and implementers worldwide. As SNOMED International and its global community work to explore SNOMED CT as an input into Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models, it is clear the energy and enthusiasm fuelling these discussions is growing as implementers, clinicians, researchers and SNOMED CT users learn more about future possibilities. The 2024 Annual Report also provides a snapshot of the 2025-2030 Strategy , which was developed in 2024 in conjunction with our governance bodies. The new strategy, which seeks to build on the work of the past five years, includes a Technology Roadmap to ensure that the organization prioritizes initiatives focused on making SNOMED CT easier to adopt and implement, and an expanded approach to User Acceptance Testing. At the same time, the strategy also calls for a Content Roadmap based on Member priorities and balanced with ongoing content work. In addition to new and updated products and services, educational offerings, content changes and collaborations made over the year, the report provides insights into the many different ways the organization has engaged with its Members and other stakeholders. Some of the features we’re most proud of in this year’s report are the Member-focused articles that highlight their activities and successes in implementing and adopting SNOMED CT, including New Zealand discussing its use of a “working bee” to advance the use of the terminology, the piece on global cancer reporting agencies that discusses multi-agency efforts to use SNOMED CT to improve cancer care, and the article detailing our work with LOINC by Regenstrief to develop the LOINC Extension. “The 2024 annual report enables us to tell the story of our ecosystem of global stakeholders – their goals, and our work to better understand how we can support the drive for interoperability across the globe,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. We thank all our Members and the SNOMED International community for their commitment to enabling global interoperability and we look forward to sharing our 2025 activities next year. Visit the Results section of the Strategy, Objectives and Results page to read the report. Media Inquiries 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

Notice of changes to the Content Request Service Service Level Agreement Back 22 Jan 2019 Back The SNOMED CT Content Request Service (CRS) is a tool that enables users to submit requested changes to SNOMED CT content. Content submissions must adhere to established guidelines published on the organization’s Confluence website . The organization also publishes content development information for documentation release notes, early visibility into changes, and other areas that may impact your request. Changes to service level agreements (SLA) are initiated as a way to manage the organization’s resource load as well as preserve balance among content submitters. Further, changes to the current SLA are due to the need to progress the multi-year Quality Initiative underway. Changes to the SLA are in effect as of January 17th, 2019 and include: Request Commitment: Change: Reduced from 2500 for better resource planning and management A minimum total of 1500 separate requests within set timelines and meeting submission criteria will be added to the next release, provided the request is not marked for clarification, appeal or rejected. This change from 2500 to 1500 is being implemented to better assist the organization understand our resource allocation supporting content requests. Request Balance: Change: Reworded for better clarity SNOMED International also reserves the right to assess the number of submissions made per country per release to create balance of submissions and fairness in equal resolution of requests. Requests: Change: Reworded for better clarity A single request may not exceed 150 concept additions or changes. No further request batches of the “same type” may be submitted in a single editing cycle in order to circumvent the Bulk submission process. Once a total of 150 additions or changes have been reached, no further requests of the same type will be accepted during the release cycle. Slight overages of the 150 will be considered on a case by case basis. These changes will predominantly affect Members (National Release Centres) and other authorized submitters including collaboration partners, clinical reference groups, etc. and take effect January 17, 2019. Access the Service Level Agreement here to review the entirety of the changes. For additional information, please contact 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