Updated SNOMED CT Editorial Guide Now Available Back 13 Aug 2018 Back The SNOMED CT Editorial Guide has undergone extensive revision and the newly revamped version has been published in line with the July 2018 SNOMED CT International Edition release. The updated Editorial Guide is available through the SNOMED International Document Library . Given the dynamic nature of SNOMED CT, the guide has been updated biannually in line with the release cycle since the inception of SNOMED CT in 2007. The resulting volume of guidance, new and existing, required review to identify and remove in some cases, outdated guidance, and in others, repetitive or redundant information. In September 2017, a project began with the aim of streamlining the guidance content thereby rendering the document more useful and easier to navigate. Resulting from this process, content has been rearranged in three sections; Background Information, Authoring, and Style Guide, resulting in fewer pages, less repetition and a document that is easier to navigate. Throughout the revamp project, the SNOMED International Content Team reviewed the changes in stages, section by section to ensure persistence of pertinent information, as well as for comprehension, accuracy, continuity and relevance of the guidelines. In terms of review, both the Content Managers Advisory Group and the Editorial Advisory Group were engaged to provide additional external review throughout this process and resulting feedback was incorporated as appropriate to further improve the document. For additional information, please contact info@snomed.org

The Snowstorm terminology server developed by SNOMED International for the SNOMED CT browser and the authoring platform is also free and open source software that anyone can use. At Health New Zealand we promote the use of Snowstorm to health providers and the software industry as a cheap and cheerful way to add FHIR-friendly code set lookups to clinical apps. There are already some great SNOMED CT-powered apps as a result. The key is to show that terminology is fun, and this poster presentation describes our efforts to win over developers to SNOMED CT and to Snowstorm. At the extreme edge, we have a demo port of Snowstorm on a Raspberry Pi. Back View Map Health New Zealand Porting the Snowstorm terminology server to the Raspberry Pi and other ways of winning over developers and getting SNOMED CT into the field Read More Country / Region APAC Tags Implementation, Innovation, Tooling The Snowstorm terminology server developed by SNOMED International for the SNOMED CT browser and the authoring platform is also free and open source software that anyone can use. At Health New Zealand we promote the use of Snowstorm to health providers and the software industry as a cheap and cheerful way to add FHIR-friendly code set lookups to clinical apps. There are already some great SNOMED CT-powered apps as a result. The key is to show that terminology is fun, and this poster presentation describes our efforts to win over developers to SNOMED CT and to Snowstorm. At the extreme edge, we have a demo port of Snowstorm on a Raspberry Pi. Description We are developing material and education to promote the use of Snowstorm to industry, making it a fun and attractive way to build SNOMED CT-powered apps. One of the demonstrators is a port of Snowstorm to a Raspberry Pi with the full content of the SNOMED CT New Zealand Edition loaded - to what exact purpose we don't know, it's a demo! Scope As a standard for the New Zealand health sector, SNOMED CT has a government-sponsored programme for adoption by industry. How SNOMED CT will be used The SNOMED CT New Zealand is published twice a year via the SNOMED International Managed Service and is a standard product for New Zealand health providers and the health software industry. We promote Snowstorm as a cost-effective way to add terminology capability to new and existing apps, linked to the New Zealand Health Terminology Service. Why SNOMED CT will be used Contact More information Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice

The United Kingdom is a founder member of SNOMED International, and its representative is NHS England, on behalf of the UK countries. United Kingdom The United Kingdom is a founder member of SNOMED International, and its representative is NHS England, on behalf of the UK countries. Contact Details NHS England 7 and 8 Wellington Place Leeds West Yorkshire LS1 4AP Website: http://www.digital.nhs.uk Email: enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk Technology and Information Standards Help Desk: support.digitalservices@nhs.net Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Alex Elias Member Forum: Paul Wright (co-chair), Ed Cheetham News articles NHS England is an executive non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Health for England. NHS England is working closely with the UK countries to ensure a consistent and coherent contribution to SNOMED International. NHS England provides data, information and technology resource for the health and care system and plays a fundamental role in driving better care, better services and better outcomes for patients in England. NHS England is the trusted source of authoritative data, information and information standards relating to health and care. NHS England is responsible for discharging the various Member country responsibilities, which includes the governance of clinical terminology and related activities. The Technology and Information Standards (TIS) UK Strategic Board sets the strategic direction for terminology and includes representatives from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. NHS England is the UK Member’s National Release Centre for the creation of, and delegated authority to license, SNOMED CT UK Edition and derivatives. This role is undertaken by NHS England's Technology and Information Standards service. All NHS provider organisations are expected to assume paperless running by 1 April 2018 and are expected to adopt SNOMED CT in the direct care process by 1 April 2020. During this time we must also work with local authorities to understand and address the implications of this for Social Care. Clinical applications incorporating SNOMED CT continue to be deployed into all healthcare sectors. For example, over 156 million electronic prescription messages are transacted monthly using SNOMED CT. The retirement of the Read Drug and Appliance Dictionary in support of the strategic direction to adopt SNOMED CT for the exchange of medicines information. The creation of mapping tables from antecedent versions of SNOMED for pathology content as well as Read to SNOMED CT mapping tables for laboratory result reporting. The UK Edition is now available in both RF1 and RF2 formats, with around 88,000 UK clinical concepts and 380,000 UK drugs. More information about SNOMED CT in the United Kingdom can be accessed here: http://www.digital.nhs.uk https://digital.nhs.uk/snomed-ct (For inquiries relating to SNOMED CT UK Edition, licensing, requests for new terms, training, advice and related products) National Information Board Personalised Health and Care 2020: A Framework for Action Endorses the move to adopt a single terminology, SNOMED CT States that partners will actively collaborate to ensure that all primary care systems adopt SNOMED CT by the end of December 2016 States that the entire health system should adopt SNOMED CT by April 2020 States that the NIB will work with local authorities to understand and address the implications of this for social care. 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

American Medical Association Back American Medical Association Clinical Partner The American Medical Association (AMA) and SNOMED International have a collaborative agreement to coordinate on the design and development of their respective coding and terminology products. The AMA works collaboratively alongside other leading standards-development organizations (SDOs) like SNOMED International to advance our mutual missions to seek the clear and timely exchange of clinical information across health systems as part of our pursuit of safe, effective and patient-driven health care. Additional information AMA and SNOMED International have been collaborating since 2016 on strengthening our global relationship and developing our respective coding and terminology solutions, SNOMED CT and the Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®) code set. Both organizations believe that an increasingly common medical language elevates the potential for more research and better health outcomes throughout the globe. Working in tandem, the collaboration allows for the continued improvement of content to better support existing and emerging uses of health data globally. Press releases: March 2022: AMA and SNOMED International announce the validation of new SNOMED CT and Current Procedural Terminology cross maps August 2020: The AMA and SNOMED launch joint demonstration project to enable better outcomes and enhanced resource utilization October 2016: AMA and IHTSDO announce collaborative health terminology agreement Visit AMA for more information.

IMO - Intelligent Medical Objects Back IMO - Intelligent Medical Objects Vendor Overview Intelligent Medical Objects is a healthcare data enablement company that ensures clinical data integrity and quality — making patient information fit-for-purpose across the healthcare ecosystem, from hospitals to health information exchanges to payers, and beyond. IMO’s vast footprint in electronic health records (EHRs) powers our ability to capture and preserve clinical intent at the highest level of specificity. Our secure technology platform and evolving portfolio of products are grounded in our industry leading medical terminologies, which are clinically vetted and always current, capturing data at the highest level of specificity. This allows our clients to transform and extract the greatest value from their data. In short, IMO is the catalyst that enables accurate documentation, precise population cohorting, optimized reimbursements, robust analytics, and better care decisions to optimize patient outcomes. SNOMED CT-enabled solutions IMO solutions help capture precise clinical data at the point of care and standardize it across settings and sources to power more informed decisions. IMO Core simplifies diagnosis and condition documentation and helps make problem lists more meaningful, allowing clinicians to document in their own words, while prompting for specificity and secondary codes that map to SNOMED CT and many different ICD systems including ICD-10, ICD-10-AM, ICD-10-CA, and ICD-10-CM--effectively bridging the clinical and administrative standards. IMO Precision Normalize standardizes and enriches disparate clinical data by comprehensively mapping it to standard codes. IMO Precision Sets extends the EHR grouping capability with customized tooling for value sets. In addition to the below listed scope of services, IMO also offers EHR Workflow, problem list management, data normalization, and value set management. Specific regions where IMO operates includes the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, Africa, and North America. Scope of services Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, EHR Downloadable documents Office 9600 West Bryn Mawr Avenue, Suite 100 Rosemont, IL 60018 USA www.imohealth.com Contact details Steven Rube, MD Chief Clinical Officer Srube@imohealth.com Regions where operational Africa, Asia, Europe, Global, Middle East, North America

Bitac Back Bitac Vendor Overview BITAC is a “clinical terminology for ehealth" company. We promote health knowledge development, unlocking the power of data through the use of standards. We work with the standards LOINC, ICD10, OMIM and SNOMED CT, providing automatic coding, semantic network and professional services through our SAAS platform, CTMAP, which works as a semantic hub. SNOMED CT-enabled solutions Consultancy services: designing governance models and policies for deployment of SNOMED CT as a reference terminology in a regional health interoperability region or healthcare organization, with heterogeneity in systems (for example, HIS, LIS, RIS), where other output terminologies coexist (for example, LOINC, ICD10, RXNORM, RADLEX). Building subsets for specific chronic conditions to be used in different digital health scenarios: remote patient monitoring / PHR/EHR / DSS related to clinical guidelines / biosurveillance networks. Scope of services Chronic disease, Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, Diagnostic imaging, Drug, EHR, EMR, Lab, Oncology, Pharmacy, Telehealth Downloadable documents Office C/camps i fabres 3-11 Barcelona Barcelona 08006 Spain www.bitac.com Contact details Mireia Rodriguez Naque Cofounder and Business Development manager +34 64967209 /+34 935181351 mireiarn@bitac.com Regions where operational Europe, Global, North America, South America

NNIT A/S Back NNIT A/S Vendor Overview NNIT is an experienced and reliable partner for all IT Services, with a proven track record for successful IT implementations to bridge business and IT. NNIT runs critical IT infrastructure and has implemented vital solutions for a broad range of public and healthcare customers. With a broad range of healthcare offerings, NNIT offers to help create value for patients as well as the overall healthcare sector. The competencies of NNIT range from advisory in the pre-production phase to project management in terms of implementation as well as creating operational stability and handling support. With our knowledge of the critical areas of implementation, we can help customers make the right key decisions, execute tasks, train employees, and implement the processes and tools involved in successfully managing all large scale IT implementations. SNOMED CT-enabled solutions NNITs has a long experience of working with SNOMED CT. Our services are focused on supporting your implementation of SNOMED CT ensuring that you maximize your usage of SNOMED CT in relation to your needs. NNIT has a number of senior consultants who can support you in areas of SNOMED CT translation, mapping and content development both when it comes to management and execution. Our highly specialized consultants has extensive backgrounds in the healthcare sector, allowing for NNIT to understand the challenges faced by our customers and to aid all of the personnel in understanding the practical aspects of all implementations. NNIT is also EPIC certified and can provide you with implementation support to make most out of SNOMED CT in your EPIC implementation. Scope of services Clinical coding, Clinical documentation, EHR Downloadable documents Office Østmarken 3A Søborg Copenhagen 2860 Denmark http://www.nnit.com/ Contact details Anna Adelöf Consulting Director +45 30778651 aaef@nnit.com Regions where operational Global

Certified Health Informatician Australasia Back Certified Health Informatician Australasia Education Partner SNOMED International together with the Certified Health Informatician Australasia (CHIA) program have announced that three SNOMED CT courses are now endorsed for continuing professional development (CPD) points and count towards CHIA recertification. Additional information These courses are all provided online through SNOMED International and include: SNOMED CT Foundation Course (11 CPD points) -- A broad introduction to clinical terminology – self-paced and delivered over a maximum of four months SNOMED CT Implementation Course (50 CPD points) -- Knowledge and skills for terminology implementation – delivered on a fixed schedule over six months SNOMED CT Authoring Level 1 Course (60 CPD points) -- Terminology authoring at an introductory level – delivered on a fixed schedule over five months Visit Education at SNOMED International or contact elearning@snomed.org for more information. Press Release: April 2020: SNOMED International partners with CHIA to recognize SNOMED CT education with CPD points in Australasia

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. 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

The Netherlands Cancer Registry (NCR) currently uses internally developed coding with Dutch labels for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, which limits the international use and comparability of its data. SNOMED-CT was investigated as a replacement of the internally developed coding system. The latter was mapped to SNOMED-CT and the results of the mapping were discussed with internal stakeholders. A report was created and shared with the management team of IKNL, the organization that manages the NCR, who will decide on which standard to adopt for procedure in the NCR. Back View Map IKNL (2 of 2) Using SNOMED-CT for registration of procedures in the Netherlands Cancer Registry Read More Country / Region EMEA Tags Data analytics, Data quality, Mapping The Netherlands Cancer Registry (NCR) currently uses internally developed coding with Dutch labels for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, which limits the international use and comparability of its data. SNOMED-CT was investigated as a replacement of the internally developed coding system. The latter was mapped to SNOMED-CT and the results of the mapping were discussed with internal stakeholders. A report was created and shared with the management team of IKNL, the organization that manages the NCR, who will decide on which standard to adopt for procedure in the NCR. Description The project limits itself to procedures in the NCR. The goal of the project was to advice the management team of IKNL, the organization that manages the NCR, about adoption of SNOMED-CT as the standard for registration of procedures in the NCR. Scope Several standards for procedures were considered. One interesting candidate was WHO's ICHI and it was the subject of a first investigation. Due to several shortcomings in ICHI, and the decision by the Dutch government that SNOMED-CT will be used as a standard in healthcare, a decision was made to investigate SNOMED-CT as well. How SNOMED CT will be used Procedures in the NCR are mapped to SNOMED-CT. Why SNOMED CT will be used Contact More information Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice

Latvia advances digital health strategy by joining SNOMED International Back 10 Mar 2026 Back RIGA, LATVIA AND LONDON, UK – March 10, 2026 – SNOMED International welcomes the Republic of Latvia as its latest Member. Latvia, one of three Baltic states in northern Europe, has a population of 1.8 million. With an advanced economy, the country is a member of the European Union (EU) and a number of other European trade and security organizations. In 2023, the country launched a seven-year digital health strategy that defines the directions and tasks of the digital transformation of the health sector. With full Cabinet of Ministers’ approval in August 2023, the strategy targets a sweeping transformation of Latvia’s health ecosystem, leveraging EU Structural Funds and national investment to drive change. Additionally, Latvia established a separate digital health data authority – SIA “Latvijas Digitālās veselības centrs”– to ensure an open and integrated digital health ecosystem. Key goals of the strategy include digital transformation of the healthcare sector, focusing on interoperability, data availability for patients and professionals, and increased use of digital services such as telehealth and AI-powered tools. Other goals include enhancing health data management, boosting digital literacy among healthcare workers, and employing EU structural funds for implementation. Minister of Health of Latvia Mr. Hosam Abu Meri sees SNOMED CT implementation in Latvia as an essential step for building a resilient and sustainable digital health ecosystem. “When clinicians document care using standardized clinical terminology, we reduce ambiguity, improve continuity of care, and enhance patient safety,” he said. “A shared language ensures that what is recorded in one hospital is understood in another, internationally as well. It also ensures that patients receive consistent and safe care wherever they are, as their medical information can be accurately understood and used across institutions and borders. Therefore, I am looking forward to the practical SNOMED CT implementation that is on the way for Latvia.” Adopting and implementing the clinical terminology SNOMED CT will help the country achieve those goals. SNOMED CT, the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world, is a resource with comprehensive, scientifically validated clinical content that enables consistent representation of clinical content in electronic health records and is mapped to other international standards. It is used in more than 80 countries. When integrated into an electronic health record system, SNOMED CT, which incorporates more than 370,000 concepts, presents clinical information in ways that enable meaning-based retrieval, facilitating consistent reporting and analysis. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete hails Latvia’s decision to join SNOMED International as a pivotal step toward attaining the country’s digital health strategy goals and to continuing to improve key health indices such as lifespan, disease prevalence and health system performance, to name a few. It also opens the door to the experience and successes other European countries have enabled via the adoption of SNOMED CT, he notes. “European SNOMED International Members are enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge and experience related to the adoption of SNOMED CT, and I know that Latvia can benefit from – and contribute to – that knowledge bank,” he says. Learn more about SNOMED CT Learn more about SNOMED International Learn more about the Digital Health Centre of Latvia (Sākumlapa - SIA "Latvijas Digitālās veselības centrs)

Data interoperability is a crucial element for the success of a digitalization strategy. Achieving data interoperability requires clear semantic and syntactic rules. Therefore, digitalization in healthcare should be accompanied by a semantic strategy to outline a foundation of agreed reference coding systems and valuesets for specific domains and segments of the electronic health record. The electronic healthcare system in Germany is evolving. With legal agreement for a European Health Data Space in 2025 also a harmonization in Europe will be pursued. The BfArM as the National Competence Center for medical terminologies has issued a position paper, which is currently discussed with stakeholders. The paper proposes a gradual convergence of standardized documentation in healthcare towards a binding set of basic coding systems and valuesets. Requirements should be identified and semantic reference sources agreed by the domain expert community. A consented semantic framework will support users and software providers in their decision-making and aims to reduce the diversity of individual solutions. A long-term strategy will give decision-makers certainty in their planning and will support a gradual alignment of electronic data towards a mandatory set of basic coding systems. A central asset in this strategy is a central terminology server for the healthcare domain. It will act as a single “source of truth” and reliable platform for semantic references. A central platform will serve as “on-stop-shop” for automatic technical distribution and consumption and also as reliable long-time versioning archive during the live-cycle of electronic healthcare record items. Back View Map BfArM A Semantic Strategy is a key element of interoperability in electronic healthcare: A proposal for an approach in Germany Read More Country / Region EMEA Tags Collaboration, Data analytics, Data quality, Implementation Data interoperability is a crucial element for the success of a digitalization strategy. Achieving data interoperability requires clear semantic and syntactic rules. Therefore, digitalization in healthcare should be accompanied by a semantic strategy to outline a foundation of agreed reference coding systems and valuesets for specific domains and segments of the electronic health record. The electronic healthcare system in Germany is evolving. With legal agreement for a European Health Data Space in 2025 also a harmonization in Europe will be pursued. The BfArM as the National Competence Center for medical terminologies has issued a position paper, which is currently discussed with stakeholders. The paper proposes a gradual convergence of standardized documentation in healthcare towards a binding set of basic coding systems and valuesets. Requirements should be identified and semantic reference sources agreed by the domain expert community. A consented semantic framework will support users and software providers in their decision-making and aims to reduce the diversity of individual solutions. A long-term strategy will give decision-makers certainty in their planning and will support a gradual alignment of electronic data towards a mandatory set of basic coding systems. A central asset in this strategy is a central terminology server for the healthcare domain. It will act as a single “source of truth” and reliable platform for semantic references. A central platform will serve as “on-stop-shop” for automatic technical distribution and consumption and also as reliable long-time versioning archive during the live-cycle of electronic healthcare record items. Description The presentation focuses on the sematic strategy proposed by BfArM for the German healthcare system. A strategic decision making process for reference semantic assets is seen as key for interoperability in the electronic health care system and an sustainable data management and reuse of data. A central asset in this strategic process will be a central terminology server for the healthcare domain, which will act as a single “source of truth” and reliable and platform for technical distribution and consumption along the life-cycle of the patients' data in the electronic health record. Scope SNOMED CT is seen as the central and basic terminology in clinical data for the electronic health record due to its ontological structure and granularity and comprehensiveness of coding concepts. How SNOMED CT will be used SNOMED CT is seen as the central and basic terminology in clinical data for the electronic health record due to its ontological structure and granularity and comprehensiveness of coding concepts. Why SNOMED CT will be used Contact More information Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice