SNOMED International's twice-annual business meetings support discussion, knowledge exchange and planning of the organization's governance and advisory bodies. Business meetings SNOMED International's twice-annual business meetings support discussion, knowledge exchange and planning of the organization's governance and advisory bodies. Next meeting: October 17-21, 2026 (Hybrid event) InterContinental Sydney Sydney, Australia (and online) Subscribe for updates Registration opens in June Meet. Advise. Engage. SNOMED International's twice-annual Business Meetings are hybrid events in April and October for our governance, advisory, working, project and clinical reference groups, providing the organization and Community of Practice both in-person and online opportunities to participate. The next in-person conference will be held from October 17-21, 2026 at the InterContinental Sydney hotel in Australia, alongside some online-only sessions. 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This is placeholder text. To change this content, double-click on the element and click Change Content. Back Jim Case Chief Terminologist Jim joined SNOMED International in June 2015, seconded on a part time basis from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), providing leadership across the Content Development and Mapping areas. After retiring from the NLM in December 2018, Jim transitioned wholly to SNOMED International, retaining his half-time role as the Head of Terminology. Jim received his MS in Genetics from Stanford University and both his D.V.M. and Ph.D. (Comparative Pathology) from UC Davis. He served as Professor of Clinical Diagnostic Informatics with the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory System at UC Davis from 1986 until 2010. In 1995, his efforts were focused on the development of national veterinary data standards. Having been heavily involved in standards development organizations, Jim has served as a member of the Laboratory LOINC committee, co-chair of the Health Level Seven vocabulary work group, Director at large for HL7 and is currently a member of the WHO Medical and Scientific Advisory Committee for ICD-11. He was Professor of Clinical Diagnostic Informatics at the California Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, from 1987-2010. He served at the NLM from January 2010 to December 2018, where his primary role was the development and maintenance of the US extension to SNOMED CT and addition of US content into the International release of SNOMED CT. He is the first veterinarian to be elected to the American College of Medical Informatics. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Joint Initiative Council Back Joint Initiative Council Standards Partner The Joint Initiative Council for Global Health Informatics Standardization (JIC) was formed to further the important role of health informatics standards to: Enable interoperability of information and processes across health domains; Support the timely, efficient delivery of safe, coordinated, accountable, high-quality health services to individuals, communities and populations; and, Facilitate effective global markets for health information systems. Visit http://www.jointinitiativecouncil.org/ for a list of participating Members. Additional information JIC activities include: A mutually agreed decision process for international standardization needs; Coordinated standards strategies and plans; An integrated work program; Focused, specific resolution of overlapping or counteracting standards within the participating SDOs existing work programs. In 2020, the JIC released, Setting the stage for the future: Enabling the digital transformation of healthcare, a white paper outlining how nine global standards development organisations serving collectively as the JIC are proudly working together to build and continuously refine coordinated global standards that make high-quality data available to the right people, at the right place and time, supporting high-quality healthcare decisions. In recent past, JIC Members contributed to the development of the first Standards Set which focused on the Patient Summary. This was published early in 2018 and was made available for review and usage as a guidance document for stakeholders across health informatics globally. It is a live document which will be maintained over time and updated in line with changes in standards and supporting guidances. Resources: JIC whitepaper: Setting the stage for the future Patient Summary Standards Set Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

India's national telemedicine service is globally the largest one with hub-and-spoke model of implementation. traditionally while hubs used SNOMED CT for diagnoses, spokes relied on error-prone free-text entries for symptoms. Despite the large-scale collection of patient data, the lack of standardization hindered its effective use for clinical decision-making and AI-driven solutions. To address this, a multilingual symptom repository was developed, translating 300 common symptoms and local synonyms into 12 Indian languages, each one mapped to appropriate SNOMED CT codes. The repository integrated SNOMED-linked multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for every symptom, capturing attributes like duration, location, and aggravating factors. Over 3000 terms‚symptoms, synonyms, questions, and answers‚were encoded using the SNOMED CT browser and validated by clinicians and public health experts, creating an intuitive, multilingual interface for health providers. Embedded in the telemedicine platform, this tool democratizes SNOMED CT: spoke providers now input data in local languages via dropdown menus populated with SNOMED-standardized terms, simplifying data entry. Patients benefit from precise documentation in their native language, reducing misinterpretations. Hub clinicians receive structured summaries to enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment plans. Program managers leverage standardized datasets for real-time disease surveillance. Innovators gain machine-readable data to train AI-driven clinical support tools. This initiative breaks adoption barriers in low-resource settings by aligning SNOMED CT with linguistic diversity, fostering equity in digital health. Key outcomes include improved data quality, interoperability, and scalability for AI solutions. The project underscores the importance of collaborative validation, clinician engagement, and localized terminology mapping for SNOMED CT adoption. Back View Map Wadhwani AI (Lords Education And Health Society) Global Standards, Local Impact: Democratization of SNOMED CT Standards in the world's largest democracy (India) by encouraging the adoption of standards among health providers of the national telemedicine service through an intuitive multilingual interface. Read More Country / Region APAC Tags Artificial intelligence, Clinical Practice, Data quality, Mapping, Translation India's national telemedicine service is globally the largest one with hub-and-spoke model of implementation. traditionally while hubs used SNOMED CT for diagnoses, spokes relied on error-prone free-text entries for symptoms. Despite the large-scale collection of patient data, the lack of standardization hindered its effective use for clinical decision-making and AI-driven solutions. To address this, a multilingual symptom repository was developed, translating 300 common symptoms and local synonyms into 12 Indian languages, each one mapped to appropriate SNOMED CT codes. The repository integrated SNOMED-linked multiple-choice questions (MCQs) for every symptom, capturing attributes like duration, location, and aggravating factors. Over 3000 terms‚symptoms, synonyms, questions, and answers‚were encoded using the SNOMED CT browser and validated by clinicians and public health experts, creating an intuitive, multilingual interface for health providers. Embedded in the telemedicine platform, this tool democratizes SNOMED CT: spoke providers now input data in local languages via dropdown menus populated with SNOMED-standardized terms, simplifying data entry. Patients benefit from precise documentation in their native language, reducing misinterpretations. Hub clinicians receive structured summaries to enhance diagnostic accuracy and treatment plans. Program managers leverage standardized datasets for real-time disease surveillance. Innovators gain machine-readable data to train AI-driven clinical support tools. This initiative breaks adoption barriers in low-resource settings by aligning SNOMED CT with linguistic diversity, fostering equity in digital health. Key outcomes include improved data quality, interoperability, and scalability for AI solutions. The project underscores the importance of collaborative validation, clinician engagement, and localized terminology mapping for SNOMED CT adoption. Description The project is geographically limited to India and precisely related to only the "chief complaint section" of case preparation under national telemedicine services. overall scope includes : * Multilingual Support: Translating 300 common symptoms and local synonyms into 12 Indian languages, mapped to SNOMED CT codes, to address linguistic diversity. * Structured Data Capture: Integrating SNOMED-linked multiple-choice questions (MCQs) to capture symptom attributes (e.g., duration, location) and reduce ambiguity. * Clinician & Patient Empowerment: Providing spoke providers with intuitive, multilingual dropdown interfaces and enabling patients to receive care in their native language. * Public Health & AI Readiness: Enabling real-time disease surveillance for program managers and generating AI-ready datasets for innovators. * Scalability in Low-Resource Settings: Demonstrating SNOMED CT adoption in resource-constrained environments through collaborative validation and localized mapping. Scope The following are key reasons why we selected SNOMED CT for this intuitive multilingual interface. 1. Clinical Granularity SNOMED Ensures precise symptom documentation to avoid misinterpretation between providers. Captures "burning chest pain" (a subtype of "chest pain") vs. vague free-text entries. 2. Simplified Data Entry for Mid-Level Providers SNOMED CT Minimizes training needs with intuitive, multilingual interfaces. Example: Local terms like "‡§ñ‡§æ‡§Ç‡§∏‡•Ä" (Hindi for "cough") are easy to map to SNOMED codes via dropdowns. 3. Multilingual & Local Terminology Support Mapping of SNOMED Codes to closely related local language terms bridges language barriers while maintaining standardization. Example: 12 Indian languages mapped to SNOMED CT for seamless regional adoption. 4. AI-Ready Structure for Predictive Analytics SNOMED CT Logic-based ontology enables symptom-pattern analysis. Example: Attributes like "Cough duration: more than 15 days" train AI to infer conditions like Tuberculosis. 5. SNOMED CT was preferred over other standards because: ICD-11 is designed for billing/statistics, not real-time care. Lacks symptom granularity (e.g., no "cough with bloody sputum"). LOINC focuses on lab tests (e.g., "hemoglobin test"), not clinical narratives or symptoms, both standards provide limited multilingual flexibility and flat structures hinder AI training and frontline usability. How SNOMED CT will be used SNOMED CT Browser International Edition was extensively used at every step while ensuring global-level standardization for local terminologies. 1. Symptom-to-Code Mapping: 300 symptoms and English synonyms were translated into 12 local indic languages and mapped to SNOMED CT codes of standard symptoms using the SNOMED CT browser. Ex: " Fever" is a standard symptom while local words for it in India are 1) Bukhaar 2) Jwaram etc. so all these terms were mapped to (Fever- finding, CTID: 386661006) 2. Structured Data Integration: SNOMED-linked MCQs captured symptom attributes (e.g., "duration"or "aggravating factors") as structured data, replacing free-text entries. Ex: Local language question " Fever since how many days" was mapped to the SNOMED CT term "Duration (property) (qualifier value)SCTID: 762636008 3. Validation & Clinician Engagement: Over 3,000 terms (symptoms, questions, answers) were validated by clinicians and public health experts to ensure clinical accuracy. 4. Multilingual Interface Development: Dropdown menus in local languages were populated with SNOMED-standardized terms, enabling spokes to input data without coding expertise. 5. Hub-Spoke Workflow Enhancement:Structured summaries with SNOMED codes improved hub clinicians' diagnostic accuracy, while standardized datasets empowered program managers in surveillance. Why SNOMED CT will be used Contact More information Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

SNOMED International Welcomes Argentina as its 31st Member Back 7 Mar 2018 Back SNOMED International and the Ministerio de Salud are pleased to announce that Argentina has joined the organization as its thirty-first Member. As the newest SNOMED International Member, Argentina will leverage SNOMED CT’s structured clinical vocabulary to realize improvements in how clinical data is analyzed and reported on for the benefit of patient care. Argentina’s commitment to SNOMED CT sets the foundation for clinical data to be exchanged accurately and consistently across care settings, further extending the reach of structured clinical terminology throughout the Latin America region. SNOMED CT is the world’s most comprehensive health terminology. Founded in 2007 by nine charter nations, SNOMED International is a not-for-profit, member-owned and driven international organization. The addition of Argentina has grown the organization’s Membership to thirty-one countries and territories across five continents, and enables Argentina to manage and use SNOMED CT and other related products, as well as participate on the organization’s General Assembly. “We are pleased to be welcoming Argentina as an official partner on this journey, formalizing a promising relationship that has existed for a number of years” said Don Sweete, SNOMED International CEO. “In Buenos Aires, private hospital entity, Hospital Italiano has been a long-term adopter of SNOMED CT. With Argentina’s Membership to SNOMED International, the Ministerio de Salud has crossed the threshold enabling Argentina to leverage SNOMED CT for the benefit of their healthcare system, affecting patients and providers alike.” Argentina has embarked on a national program to promote the development of a national health information infrastructure, supporting and guiding provincial governments projects for the adoption of a national interoperability framework. “The Ministerio de Salud and the Ministerio de Modernización of Argentina worked together to make this membership a reality; this will facilitate the adoption of SNOMED CT in health information implementations around the country. The Health Minister, Dr. Adolfo Rubinstein, defined that the National Health Information infrastructure is the foundation for the implementation of the Universal Health Coverage initiatives”, said Dr. Alejandro Lopez Osornio, responsible for the adoption of SNOMED CT in the Ministerio de salud. “Everything is already in place for provinces and providers to start requesting free licenses for the use of SNOMED CT, and we are planning a sequence of implementation support activities for the rest of the year.” Argentina becomes the third country in the Latin America region to join SNOMED International, positioning the region for increased interoperability as well as the promise of leveraging learnings amongst its regional and international counterparts. Through the next phase of their ehealth journey, Argentina has demonstrated their recognition of the value to the health system through investment in the world’s most comprehensive healthcare terminology product. Read the full press release . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

BT Clinical Computing (Europe) Back BT Clinical Computing (Europe) Vendor Overview BT Clinical Computing offers a structured SNOMED CT inside solution from existing data and on-line medical input. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe SNOMED CT-enabled solutions BT Clinical Computing aims at structuring the existing data of medical and hospital information systems into a SNOMED CT repository from where the data can be reused for secondary coding (ICD10), data extraction for Patient Summary, Personal Health Record and clinical research. The intelligent SNOMED CT-repository can feed decision support systems and business intelligence. Structured and unstructured source data are normalised to postcoordinated SNOMED CT expressions and are converted from there to multiple targets (ICD, registries, clinical trials). Scope of services Clinical data warehouse, clinical coding, clinical research. Downloadable documents Office BT Clinical Computing SA Av. Paul Pastur 361 Mont-Sur-Marchienne Hainaut 6032 Belgium http://www.btclinicalcomputing.com/ Contact details Dr. Benny Van Bruwaene CMIO +32472990116 benny.vanbruwaene@btclinicalcomputing.com Regions where operational Europe

Healthcare Software Back Healthcare Software Vendor Overview Healthcare Software (HCS) designs, builds and provides solutions and services that allow for informed health decisions to be made, and then actioned. HCS solutions not only guide decision making but also allow those decisions to be actioned in a consistent, economical way that delivers quality evidence-based care aligned to the health provider’s organisational standards and governance. HCS applications include clinical workflow applications that allow prescribing of drugs and complete medication management, related HCS applications collect health data, process this data and supplements it with information from other health applications. HCS also produces applications and solutions beyond the realm of medications including consumer health records and decision making and service selection of health consumables and health professional services. In hospitals and other acute care settings, HCS provides solutions that guide clinicians, enhance patient care in hospitals, and communicate patient care interventions, episodes, summaries and medical data and records to other clinicians and health care providers. For primary care, government health services and health organisations that are focussed on a clinical or disease speciality, HCS provides solutions that organise clinical references, databases, guidelines, standards, policies and business rules. For community organisations, government and health insurance clients HCS has developed cloud-delivered solutions to manage personal wellness and health such as the Healthcare Software Personal Health Record (HCS PHR). HCS products and solutions are designed and built upon a core technology layer has been designed to natively support and leverage Australian and international healthcare informatics and clinical standards. HCS products are contemporary, connected solutions, with the flexibility of the cloud, localised or device centred hosting and management. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe SNOMED CT-enabled solutions HCS Clinical Suite & EMR HCS Drug & Medication Formulary HCS Personal Health Record (PHR) HCS Universal Health Record (UHR) HCS Digital Health Guide Scope of services Chronic disease, Clinical documentation, Drug, EHR, EMR, Middleware Downloadable documents Office gevityinc.com Contact details Mark Fahey Business Development Manager +61 3 6224 9955 info@healthcaresoftware.com.au Regions where operational Asia, Global, Oceania

Qatar joins SNOMED International, advancing its digital health strategy Back 28 Nov 2024 Back SNOMED International is pleased to announce Qatar as its latest Member in the Middle East, joining Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. In May 2024 , at a ministerial session on digital health organized by Switzerland, Her Excellency Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, Minister of Public Health, highlighted the progress Qatar has made and the pioneering projects it is engaged in to implement innovative digital solutions to improve healthcare delivery. Those projects include work to exchange health information securely and uniformly among healthcare providers in Qatar, particularly through the Qatar Health Information Exchange (QHIE) platform, and the digital solutions to enhance patient safety, standardize care, and improve patient experience. She also discussed efforts to harness artificial intelligence and machine learning and explained the important role of the initiatives in achieving Qatar's National Vision 2030 , the Third National Development Strategy 2024-2030 , and the National Health Strategy , launched in September 2024. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete salutes Qatar’s efforts to develop a world-class healthcare system. “We welcome Qatar to the SNOMED International community,” says Don. “We know Qatar has much to offer SNOMED International Members, and is also well-placed to benefit from the experience and knowledge of other Members in the region and beyond.” For more 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

Ontology 2.0 deepens LOINC®-SNOMED collaboration, speeds global lab interoperability Back 1 Oct 2025 Back INDIANAPOLIS, US and LONDON, UK – October 3, 2025 – Regenstrief Institute and SNOMED International have released LOINC® Ontology 2.0, the next version of The LOINC Ontology: A LOINC and SNOMED CT Interoperability Solution and a significant advance in their ongoing collaboration to streamline the exchange and use of health data worldwide. This version expands the Ontology with approximately 6,000 additional concepts, with more than 2,500 new “Orderable Grouper” concepts that provide practical, higher-level groupings for laboratory orders. By introducing this organization, called LABORDERS.ONTOLOGY, the partners are deepening their relationship and making it easier for implementers to deploy a broader range of LOINC and SNOMED CT concepts across health information systems. Developed as a LOINC and SNOMED CT interoperability solution, the LOINC Ontology helps organizations that implement different combinations of the two standards meet clinical and regulatory requirements with a single, complementary approach. SNOMED CT supplies the computable framework, while LOINC contributes rich laboratory and pathology content in a widely understood format – benefiting implementers globally, including those in countries that do not yet use LOINC. The update is in response to international users who requested clearer navigation and application. Instead of working with a flat list of tens of thousands of concepts, implementers can now use this organization hierarchy to locate and manage related tests more efficiently. Version 2.0 continues to support the ongoing development of standardized laboratory orders and results for exchange and use in health data systems globally. Each grouper combines component, system (specimen) and a new “measurement” property to group related result concepts, giving users an at-a-glance structure that encompasses three or more related tests. These concepts are designed for ordering, not for reporting results, and align with the granularity typical of laboratory order catalogs. “Many laboratories need order codes that are more abstract than result codes,” said MarjorieRallins, DPM, M.S., executive director of Health Data Standards at Regenstrief, which oversees LOINC. “With these new Orderable Grouper concepts, we’re giving the community a better way to align laboratory ordering practices with the rich specificity of LOINC. The LOINC Ontology is novel and transformative in providing clinical observation content in an integrated format that accelerates interoperability and supports stakeholders with meeting clinical and regulatory requirements.” “Significant commitment and collaboration have gone into producing this Ontology,” said Don Sweete, CEO of SNOMED International. “SNOMED CT contributes the computable clinical framework, rigorous semantics and terminology that anchor the Ontology 2.0 hierarchy, enabling navigation, decision support, analytics and global interoperability alongside LOINC’s laboratory content. It’s an excellent illustration of how we’ve leveraged our mutual expertise to further the goal of interoperability for implementers globally.” Key highlights of LOINC Ontology 2.0 include: ONTOLOGY concepts: Each combines component, system (specimen) and a new “measurement” property to group related result concepts. Created for ordering, not results: These concepts provide a granularity consistent with typical laboratory order catalogs but should not be sent as result codes. Clearer navigation: Users gain an “at a glance” structure that encompass three or more related result concepts for easier browsing. Guidance and training: Tutorials and educational resources will be developed to support correct implementation and prevent misuse. The LOINC Ontology is fully owned by Regenstrief Institute and is available free of charge under the existing LOINC royalty-free license. SNOMED International members and users can access LOINC in the same format as SNOMED CT. Each organization retains editorial control of its respective standard. SNOMED International, a not-for-profit organization governed by 50 global members, sets global standards for health terminology. Its comprehensive, multilingual SNOMED CT enables healthcare professionals to capture, share and analyze patient care data to support safe, effective health information exchange. In 2022, the two organizations signed a milestone agreement to create a LOINC extension of SNOMED CT. This built on a partnership established in 2013 that linked SNOMED’s clinical semantics to LOINC’s observational concepts, improving data exchange and interoperability across health systems. For more information and to browse and download the Ontology, visit https://loincsnomed.org . This press release was originally published on the Regenstrief Institute website on September 29, 2025. About LOINC® LOINC® was created in 1994 at Regenstrief Institute to facilitate interoperability in healthcare. There was a growing trend to send clinical data electronically between healthcare entities, a practice that has now become ubiquitous. Today, it contains more than 108,000 concepts for everything from an albumin level to a zygomatic arch X-ray report. For each concept, LOINC contains many other rich details, such as synonyms, units of measure and carefully crafted descriptions. 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 . About Regenstrief Institute Regenstrief Institute, based in Indianapolis, is a globally renowned medical research organization with expertise and innovation in aging, health services and biomedical informatics research, global health standards and data stewardship. The organization collaborates with local, state, national and international public and private sector partners to develop, conduct, disseminate and implement impactful scientific research and solutions in health systems and across communities. The Institute’s vision is to engage in pioneering, transformative, interdisciplinary solutions for a healthier world. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Over the past two years, we have developed FHIR specifications for electronic service requests, specifically targeting pathology and radiology. Collaborating with the peak organizations representing these fields—the respective Colleges—we established national requesting value sets based on SNOMED CT. The Colleges leveraged existing catalogues to identify necessary content and gaps within SNOMED CT. These catalogues were then published as FHIR Value Sets, defined using SNOMED CT reference sets. Our decision to adopt precoordinated SNOMED CT codes aimed to simplify implementation, enhance user experience, and minimize ambiguity, while maintaining robust support for decision support and analytics. To demonstrate the practicality of these specifications, we created FHIR Smart forms and other implementation prototypes that incorporated ECL to create responsive experience, facilitating user feedback and further refinement. Within these demonstrations SNOMED CT is also used for other data elements of the request along. Back View Map CSIRO (1 of 4) From Requesting to Results: Using SNOMED CT to within Electronic Diagnostic Requests Read More Country / Region APAC Tags Collaboration, Data quality, Expression constraint language, Implementation, Mapping, Pre/postcoordination Over the past two years, we have developed FHIR specifications for electronic service requests, specifically targeting pathology and radiology. Collaborating with the peak organizations representing these fields—the respective Colleges—we established national requesting value sets based on SNOMED CT. The Colleges leveraged existing catalogues to identify necessary content and gaps within SNOMED CT. These catalogues were then published as FHIR Value Sets, defined using SNOMED CT reference sets. Our decision to adopt precoordinated SNOMED CT codes aimed to simplify implementation, enhance user experience, and minimize ambiguity, while maintaining robust support for decision support and analytics. To demonstrate the practicality of these specifications, we created FHIR Smart forms and other implementation prototypes that incorporated ECL to create responsive experience, facilitating user feedback and further refinement. Within these demonstrations SNOMED CT is also used for other data elements of the request along. Description This work was part of the National Sparked eRequesting project - that is developing national specifications to be used across the whole of Australia. Scope SNOMED CT provided reasonable coverage, with mechanisms in place to promptly address any gaps. More importantly the underlying concept model can be exploited for decision support and analytics. How SNOMED CT will be used SNOMED CT is used to encode the content of diagnositic requests - primarily the service, but also specimens, sites and reason for presentation. The underlying FHIR Service Request resource is an international standard. Why SNOMED CT will be used Contact More information Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Learn more Explore the wide range of resources available to our community of practice Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Opinions and perspectives on SNOMED CT and its use in digital health from thought leaders across our global community. Blog Series Opinions and perspectives on SNOMED CT and its use in digital health from thought leaders across our global community. Submit your blog idea Learn more 11 Dec 2025 Tudor Groza (Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR & Maternal and Child Health Research Institute, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore) and Ian Green (SNOMED International) Surfacing Rare Diseases Earlier: Smarter Signals from Health System Clinical Data Learn more 16 Sept 2025 Blog: SNOMED International concludes community feedback period on proposed description character limit increase and finalizes next steps Learn more 18 Mar 2025 By: Anne Randorff Højen, Alejandro Lopez Osornio & Kai Kewley Discover the SNOMED CT Implementation Demonstrators Learn more 12 Mar 2025 By: Marte Rime Bø, Norwegian Directorate of Health Learn about SNOMED CT in Norway: internal implementations and global experiences Learn more 16 Oct 2024 By: Kai Kewley, Alejandro Lopez Osornio & Anne Højen BLOG: New Simplex tool empowers users to create custom extensions Load more Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe