First launched in September 2019, SNOMED International has issued its second release of the Global Patient Set (GPS) to support health system interoperability. A slice of SNOMED CT, the GPS is a managed collection of existing reference sets, available to any user at no cost. It's positioned to support cross border interoperability and enhanced digital maturity as users move towards decision support and full analytics capabilities in their respective strategies.
Met with great success with its inaugural release, the 2019 year saw over 500 downloads of the GPS from a variety of interested parties worldwide.
September 2020 Release
The GPS offers clinical content across dentistry, renal, family & general practice and nursing areas, and includes IHE, DICOM and HL7 International Patient Summary (IPS) domains and activities. Of particular relevance, the IPS is a minimal and non-exhaustive patient summary dataset containing essential healthcare information for use in the unscheduled, cross-border care scenario, as well as for local, regional and other care scenarios. SNOMED CT content supports the HL7 IPS and also the terminology to underpin the CEN European Standard for the Patient Summary. Through the GPS, these SNOMED CT terms are available free for use in HL7 CDA R2 implementations and FHIR IPS Implementations Guides worldwide, supporting the joint goal of cross border sharing and reuse of information.
In terms of newly added content, in March 2020, the World Health Organization formally characterized Coronavirus, COVID-19, as a global pandemic and health systems worldwide are continuing their efforts to manage the outbreak. COVID-19 content included in the January 2020 release was subsequently updated in March 2020 with SNOMED International issuing an elective release falling outside of its customary release cycle. January and updated March COVID-19 content has been added to the scope of the September 2020 GPS release to support the recording and sharing of healthcare data during the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing and relevant SNOMED CT content has also been added to the GPS and can be referenced at http://snomed.org/covid-19.
In terms of consuming the GPS, from the 2020 Release onwards, SNOMED International will also be publishing an RF2 formatted package containing the GPS refset content. This Refset will follow normal RF2 conventions, and will therefore retain a full historical audit trail of all changes to the GPS refset from that point onwards.
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October Business Meetings
October 5-9, 2020 - Virtual Sessions
Dear SNOMED CT Community members,
We would like to draw your attention to the following sessions taking place as part of next week's October Business Meetings. Please click the 'register now' buttons to confirm you attendance, we hope to 'see' you there!
Clinical Engagement Sessions (Open)
October 7, 2020: 13:00-17:30 UTC
Chairs: Ian Green & Jane Millar
Keynote speaker: Dermot O’Riordan, consultant surgeon at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
SNOMED International highly values clinical input into the development and maintenance of SNOMED CT. Clinical engagement ensures that the terminology meets both current and future clinical requirements. These sessions aim to provide an overview of clinical engagement and the work currently underway within SNOMED International and the broader clinical SNOMED CT community.
As we move to increased digitalisation of healthcare, clinicians’ ways of working will change, providing opportunities to improve healthcare delivery. The use of terminology and standards provides the building blocks to provide clinicians with actionable data, supporting clinicians and clinical practice. Dermot O’Riordan is a consultant surgeon at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, where he was previously Medical Director and also Interim Chief Executive Officer. He is currently the Chief Clinical Information Officer and responsible for delivering the e-Care integrated electronic health record project, with Cerner. Dermot will discuss his views and opinions on the future challenges and opportunities based on his extensive experience
Schedule:
13:00-15:00 UTC: SNOMED for Clinicians
15:00-15:30 UTC: Break
15:30-17:00 UTC: Concurrent CRG meetings (see our What's on this Week calendar for details)
17:00-17:30 UTC: Closing Clinical plenary
Register now
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SNOMED NZ Open Forum Hui Tuwhera
October 6, 2020: 19:00-20:00 UTC
Moderator: Alastair Kenworthy
Join our SNOMED NZ Open Forum Hui Tuwhera to hear about the launch of consumer friendly terms in te reo Māori in our October release, presented by Dr Nader Fattah at THINK Hauora. Katrien Scheerlinck from Belgium’s NRC joins us as a special guest. Plus regular news and updates.
Kiwi implementers and NRC members globally welcome!
Register now
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Belgian NRC session
October 7, 2020: 8:00-9:00 UTC
Moderator: Ian Green
The session will provide an overview of the Belgium National Release Centre (NRC) roadmap 2019-2021, covering the projects being undertaken and why. It will also highlight what is next on this roadmap and future roadmaps. In particular, the projects that will be spotlighted are 3BT- SNOMED CT, the Alpha release and call for collaboration/crowdsourcing. The session will also provide a review of the content/products of the Belgian NRC September releases, including the national extension SNOMED CT, alpha release and map reference set 3BT-SNOMED CT. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the presenters.
Register now
October Business Meetings
October 5-9, 2020 - Virtual Sessions
As previously announced in May, the October 2020 Business Meeting will be held solely as a virtual event.
We are pleased to advise that the full schedule of online meetings is now available on SNOMED International’s What’s on this Week calendar, and it includes a range of governance, advisory, project and clinical reference group meetings.
Most are open to attend (or open to observe) without prior notice, however please note that the following webinar sessions require registration:
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Open General Assembly (Open to Observers)
October 6, 2020: 12:00-13:30 UTC
Chair: Alex Elias, Chair, SNOMED International General Assembly
In accordance with the IHTSDO Articles of Association clause 8.2.2, the Ordinary meeting of the General Assembly will be held on 6 October 2020. During this meeting, the General Assembly will be presented with, and vote on statutory matters. Other presentations in this meeting include a progress update on the Organization's strategy and innovation portfolio.
Register now
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Clinical Engagement Sessions (Open)
October 7, 2020: 13:00-17:30 UTC
Chairs: Ian Green & Jane Millar
Keynote speaker: Dermot O’Riordan, consultant surgeon at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
SNOMED International highly values clinical input into the development and maintenance of SNOMED CT. Clinical engagement ensures that the terminology meets both current and future clinical requirements. These sessions aim to provide an overview of clinical engagement and the work currently underway within SNOMED International and the broader clinical SNOMED CT community.
As we move to increased digitalisation of healthcare, clinicians’ ways of working will change, providing opportunities to improve healthcare delivery. The use of terminology and standards provides the building blocks to provide clinicians with actionable data, supporting clinicians and clinical practice. Dermot O’Riordan is a consultant surgeon at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in the UK, where he was previously Medical Director and also Interim Chief Executive Officer. He is currently the Chief Clinical Information Officer and responsible for delivering the e-Care integrated electronic health record project, with Cerner. Dermot will discuss his views and opinions on the future challenges and opportunities based on his extensive experience
Schedule:
13:00-15:00 UTC: SNOMED for Clinicians
15:00-15:30 UTC: Break
15:30-17:00 UTC: Concurrent CRG meetings
17:00-17:30 UTC: Closing Clinical plenary
Register now
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SNOMED NZ Open Forum Hui Tuwhera
October 6, 2020: 19:00-20:00 UTC
Moderator: Alastair Kenworthy
Join our SNOMED NZ Open Forum Hui Tuwhera to hear about the launch of consumer friendly terms in te reo Māori in our October release, presented by Dr Nader Fattah at THINK Hauora. Katrien Scheerlinck from Belgium’s NRC joins us as a special guest. Plus regular news and updates. Kiwi implementers and NRC members globally welcome!
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Belgian NRC session
October 7, 2020: 8:00-9:00 UTC
Moderator: Ian Green
The session will provide an overview of the Belgium National Release Centre (NRC) roadmap 2019-2021, covering the projects being undertaken and why. It will also highlight what is next on this roadmap and future roadmaps. In particular, the projects that will be spotlighted are 3BT- SNOMED CT, the Alpha release and call for collaboration/crowdsourcing. The session will also provide a review of the content/products of the Belgian NRC September releases, including the national extension SNOMED CT, alpha release and map reference set 3BT-SNOMED CT. There will also be an opportunity for attendees to ask questions of the presenters.
Register now
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SNOMED International Updates to the Community of Practice
As has become tradition, SNOMED International representatives deliver updates relevant to the product and organization to the Community of Practice at April and October Business Meetings. Normally presented at the conference’s Opening Plenary session, this October’s updates will be prepared and shared as a document (similar to April’s updates) during the week of October 5th. Stay tuned.
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Registration for the virtual SNOMED CT Expo 2020 (following the Business Meetings) is still open, and you are strongly encouraged to attend (it’s free!).
Register today!
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We look forward to “seeing” you in October!
September 9, 2020
SNOMED International is committed to supporting the reduction of health inequity through developing and managing social determinants of health content within SNOMED CT’s clinical terminology.
Over the next 2 years, SNOMED International will enhance its existing SDoH content within SNOMED CT, as well as making the content available via the openly accessible Global Patient Set.
Once complete, SNOMED CT enabled systems will be equipped with the ability to record a person’s social and environmental status as factors to be considered in care planning and provision of related services. Once captured using SNOMED CT, clinicians, researchers and policy makers can benefit from leveraging encoded health records for numerous avenues of analysis and for development of evidence-based practice, clinical guidelines and policies.
Learn more about how this initiative is taking shape. Contact info@snomed.org with questions or to get involved.
