SNOMED International welcomes a new look and feel to its newly named quarterly newsletter, ‘The Concept.’
‘The Concept’ name, (brainstormed by SNOMED International team members, Jon Zammit and Cathy Richardson), heralds the Q2 edition of our quarterly newsletter reflecting on featured news items, organisation updates and Member news from the past 3 months. ‘The Concept’ also provides a look ahead to upcoming events the community of interest may find interesting.
Some improvements this new format enables includes:
A cleaner, modern look and feel
Ability to share articles via social media
A web-based newsletter that allows for easy access to current and archived quarterly issues
A mobile friendly browsing alternative
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This edition of the newsletter contains articles on the following topics:
- ASSESS CT declares SNOMED CT is the best available core reference terminology for cross-border, national and regional eHealth deployments in Europe
- # SCTExpo17: Registration Opens as Momentum Grows
- SNOMED International Announces its New Management Board
- Australian NCTS Win Two AIIA iAwards
- Exploring the use of SNOMED CT within Genomics
- 2017 April Business Meeting Recap, London
- IBM Watson Health Adds SNOMED CT for Clinical Terminology
- SNOMED International Participates in eHealth Week Europe 2017
- SNOMED CT Implementation Survey Results, 2016
- New ‘Decision Support’ and ‘Reference Set’ guides available
- Growing Collaboration Through Clinical Reference Groups
- Adventures in Alberta with SNOMED CT
- SNOMED International Staff Update: Farewell to Anna Adelöf
- Spotlight: Canada’s Recent SNOMED CT Accomplishments
- SNOMED CT Syntax Community Review
- RFP for Machine Readable Concept Model Maintenance Tool
If you have any questions or topic ideas, please let us know by writing to info@snomed.org.
The draft SNOMED CT Template Syntax specification is now available for your review and commentary. This document presents the formal rules for representing slots in SNOMED CT expressions, expression constraints and queries. A slot represents a constraint and/or a placeholder for a value that is not known at the time of authoring, but which can be completed at a later time.
The Template Syntax may be used with any of the computable SNOMED CT languages to represent templates of various kinds in a consistent way. For example, using the template syntax with SNOMED CT Compositional Grammar enables the representation of the Expression Template Language. Expression templates can be used to support a variety of use cases, including the authoring of concepts and the creation of patterns for post-coordination.
Please submit all comments by Monday 17th July 2017, using the 'Feedback' button at the bottom of each Confluence page (http://snomed.org/sts).
SNOMED International seeks proposals from suitable organisations to develop a Machine Readable Concept Model (MRCM) Maintenance Tool. The Request for Proposal and Functional Requirements Specification can be found below.
The Request for Proposal and Functional Requirements Specification can be found in the attached documents:
- Request for Proposal
- Requirements Specification
If you are interested in responding, all responses to this RFP should be submitted via email to rfp@ihtsdo.org with ‘Response to MRCM Maintenance Tool’ in the subject line. Any questions on the RFP should be sent to the same email address and we will respond as soon as possible.
The deadline for submission is 0800 hrs Monday 17th July 2017.
We need your valuable nominations for the SNOMED International awards. The deadline is June 30.
SNOMED International has two awards: the Award for Excellence (given annually) and the Lifetime Achievement Award (given periodically).
An employee of SNOMED International is eligible to nominate someone so long as he or she finds someone else from the Community of Practice to be a co-nominator.
Information about the awards is available at https://ihtsdo.freshdesk.com/solution/folders/4000010554
So think about someone who is worthy. Someone who deserves it. Someone who should be honored at the SNOMED International gala dinner in Bratislava this October.
The nomination forms are attached for convenience and should be submitted to info@snomed.org. We look forward to receiving them back completed from you!
And on behalf of all of us at SNOMED International, a warm thank you!
Within NHS Wales, an electronic patient record system has been developed since 2009 with a focus on a core generic clinical information model built using SNOMED CT.
Mark Wardle, Consultant Neurologist, at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, and Andy Spencer, Chair of the Informatics for Quality Committee, have recently produced a case study of the implementation of SNOMED CT in an online clinical database in Wales.
The case study outlines how SNOMED CT has proven clinical benefits, including supporting:
- Direct patient care by making information available immediately to staff at the point of care
- Clinical governance and service provision by making aggregated data immediately available in live reporting
- Clinical research with a focus on generic and disease-specific patient outcomes.
Read the linked case study to learn more.