Momentum is building for SNOMED CT Expo 2017 in Bratislava and registration has now launched.
Watch our video to learn more about this year’s promising event and be among the first to confirm your attendance in Bratislava this year.
REGISTER BEFORE 17TH JULY FOR EARLY-BIRD PRICING!*
*Early-Bird deadline now extended to accommodate the 3rd July notification for potential presenters
Please note: Registration for the SNOMED International October 2018 Business Meeting (14th-19th Oct) is combined with the Expo this year, so please select both events if you may be attending these meetings. Further information about the meeting schedule will be shared as soon as it is available.
New Keynote Speakers & Exhibitors Confirmed:
- Konstanty Radziwiłł, Minister of Health, Poland
- Peter Blaskovits, CEO, National Health Information Centre (NCZI), Slovak Republic
- Jeremy Theal, CMIO and staff Gastroenterologist, North York General Hospital, Canada
- IMO, Phast and Vidal Vademicum leading the Exhibitor path!
Call for Papers Now Closed:
Thank you for time and effort in contributing to the excellence of the SNOMED CT Expo 2017. Call for papers officially closed on May 19th so the program committee is hard at work assessing submissions and will notify successful submitters by July 3rd.
REGISTER TODAY: http://www.snomedexpo.org/register-now
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Located in the heart of Europe in Bratislava, Slovakia, SNOMED CT Expo 2017 brings the world’s greatest thinkers together to discuss the global language of healthcare: SNOMED CT. The 2017 conference programme focuses the conversation on your experiences, achievements and enhancements of SNOMED CT.
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Begin forwarded message:Subject: SNOMED International Response: ASSESS CT Final Report & RecommendationsDate: May 18, 2017 at 10:53:35 AM EDTTo: The ASSESS CT ConsortiumPlease find attached SNOMED International’s response to the "Assessing SNOMED CT for Large Scale eHealth Deployments in the EU” report. SNOMED International recognizes ASSESS CT for its leadership throughout this initiative as well as the opportunity to participate and respond.Sincerely,Don Sweete | Chief Executive OfficerSNOMED International
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Please note that the deadline for submissions closes this Friday 19th May 2017 (21:00 UTC).
Click here to submit your paper and poster ideas on the following themes today!
- SNOMED in Action
Your practical, first-hand experiences using SNOMED CT in clinical solutions
- Enhancing Clinical Practice using SNOMED CT
The clinical achievements that have been made possible with SNOMED CT
- Leveraging SNOMED CT
Your developments and enhancements of the SNOMED CT product
Read more about conference themes and review submission guidelines.
Please contact snomedctexpo@snomed.org if you require any assistance.
SNOMED CT Expo 2017 brings the world’s greatest thinkers together to discuss the global language of healthcare: SNOMED CT. The 2017 conference programme focuses the conversation on your experiences, achievements and enhancements of SNOMED CT.
Located in the heart of Europe in Bratislava, Slovakia, it follows successful events in New Zealand, Sydney, Stockholm, Washington DC, Amsterdam and Montevideo. Conference delegates include local and international leading experts, as well as those who are newer to the SNOMED CT community and health terminology.
NHS Digital's director of digital transformation says "I need SNOMED clinical terminology to become the central building block of information sharing across health and social care."
Photo courtesy of DigitalHealth.net
May 8 2017
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NHS Digital will be having a “big drive” on standardising clinical terminology across health and social care, according to one of its leaders.
Beverley Bryant, the organisation’s director of digital transformation, told delegates at the UK e-Health Week conference that such standardisation was critical for data sharing.
“What is the point of being a national health service if we don’t capitalise on the national nature of it through standardisation of our clinical terminology?”
She told the London audience on Thursday that: “I need SNOMED clinical terminology to become the central building block of information sharing across health and social care”.
In October 2015, NHS Digital (then known as the Health & Social Care Information Centre) said that all primary care systems needed to switch from Read Codes to the SNOMED system for clinical technology by end of December 2016, with the rest of the healthcare system following suit by April 2020.
Both systems are sets of numerical machine readable codes and human readable descriptions which can be used to uniquely identify clinical concepts.
Bryant said that primary care was not the issue – “it’s in secondary care that we’ve got a lot more work to do”.
She also said that NHS Digital has started work on a social care dictionary for SNOMED terminology.
Bryant said that standardisation “does reduce data collection burdens and transform how we share information and data”.
A few examples were given of how datasets were being linked across the healthcare system, including via the Child Protection – Information Sharing (CPIS) programme.
CP-IS is now receiving 1,000 hits a week between social care and selected healthcare teams, according to Bryant, and was described as a “really useful intervention for frontline patient care”. However, the rollout of the system has been slower than was initially hoped.
NHS Digital’s commissioning last year of the Professional Record Standards Body to develop standards for e-discharge summaries from emergency departments to GPs – it will do so in partnership with the Royal College of Physicians – was also referenced.
Bryant concluded the speech by saying whatever the result of the upcoming general election, the momentum and pace that is now in health IT cannot be halted.
Throughout the conferences, questions to speakers from national bodies were not allowed due to purdah.
Source: DigitalHealth.net
Expo 2017 brings the world’s greatest thinkers together to discuss the global language of healthcare: SNOMED CT. The 2017 conference programme focuses the conversation on your experiences, achievements and enhancements of SNOMED CT.
Due to popular demand we have now extended the deadline for submissions to close on Friday 19th May 2017 (21:00 UTC).
Click here to submit your paper and poster ideas on the following themes today!
- SNOMED in Action
Your practical, first-hand experiences using SNOMED CT in clinical solutions
- Enhancing Clinical Practice using SNOMED CT
The clinical achievements that have been made possible with SNOMED CT
- Leveraging SNOMED CT
Your developments and enhancements of the SNOMED CT product
Read more about conference themes and review submission guidelines.
Please contact snomedctexpo@snomed.org if you require any assistance.
SNOMED CT Expo 2017 is located in the heart of Europe. Bratislava, Slovakia follows successful events in New Zealand, Sydney, Stockholm, Washington DC, Amsterdam and Montevideo. Conference delegates include local and international leading experts, as well as those who are newer to the SNOMED CT community and health terminology.
Please note that as approved in the recent Open General Assembly meeting, the new revised dates for the April 2018 Business Meeting in London, UK are as follows:
Sunday 8th to Wednesday 11th April 2018
The location is still TBC, but it is likely that we will return to the Amba Charing Cross Hotel due to the success of this recent event.
Best wishes,
SNOMED International's Events Team
Beginning May 3rd, SNOMED International will stop using GoToMeeting for its group calls and web conferences, and will transition to ZOOM Videoconferencing and Web Conferencing Service.
This new tool provides more functionality, ability to host more attendees, and better reliability for the SNOMED International community.
We have created a ZOOM confluence page with information on how to sign up, install the app, along with useful tips and tricks here.
What to do next?
The first step is for you to download and setup the application:
- Visit the ZOOM confluence page and follow the download and setup instructions.
- Review the information provided on account features and user how-to-guides to learn more about the service.
If you are host to an upcoming GoToMeeting, please contact techsupport@snomed.org so that we can ensure that you are set up correctly to ease the transition for yourself and meeting attendees.
Please note that until 3rd May, GoToMeeting will continue to work as normal.
For additional information please visit http://snomed.org/zoom or email techsupport@snomed.org.