SNOMED International is pleased to announce that registration for the forthcoming April 2021 Business Meetings is now open.
As previously announced, this event will be held as a virtual conference from April 19-22, 2021.
The Business Meetings will support discussion, knowledge exchange and planning of the organization's governance and advisory bodies, as well as working groups completing a defined set of deliverables. Many of the meetings are open to observers, while some are closed sessions. There will also be multimedia SNOMED CT Community Updates, a featured Keynote speaker, on-demand Education sessions, and the Open General Assembly - open to all to attend.
An enhanced events platform and mobile app will provide a cohesive experience for attendees, with seamless Zoom integration and increased networking functionality (such as 1:1 video chat and the ability to set up spontaneous breakout groups).
Please visit the events website below to view the full program and register your attendance:
REGISTER NOW
Once registered, links to the platform and app will be sent to you before the event opens.
The SNOMED CT Expo 2021 call for abstracts is now open.
SNOMED CT implementers and users: We want you!
Do you have an interesting and informative SNOMED CT experience to share? Want to broaden your network, and engage and connect with our global community? Consider submitting an abstract for this October’s conference - Our 10th anniversary of hosting SNOMED CT-focused events.
Submit here by April 30, 2021
All submissions will be entered into a weekly prize draw. Draws will be made each Friday at 17:00 Portugal/UK time between now and April 30. Those whose submissions have been accepted will be notified on June 4, 2021.
Scheduled for October 28 and 29, 2021, this year’s “hybrid” Expo will be held both in Lisbon, Portugal, and online — extending the reach of the event and providing the opportunity for even more people to participate, learn and interact in whatever mode best suits them.
We continue to monitor the global pandemic and its impact on international travel and will announce any change to these plans in the coming months.
SNOMED CT Expo 2021 Sponsorship and Exhibition Prospectus now available.
Industry leaders and innovators:
Learn more about the opportunities and benefits of sponsoring our plenaries, e-poster displays, a networking reception or onsite charging stations.
Exhibitors, learn how you can showcase your products and services, network with a global community of SNOMED CT users and optimize your participation through our extensive marketing activities.
View the prospectus
The Production Release of the January 2021 SNOMED CT® International Edition was made available on January 31, 2021.
What’s new?
The January 2021 release contains 3,559 new concepts and 5,413 changes within SNOMED CT’s 350,000+ concepts. The release includes vaccine content to support the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, contributions from Kaiser Permanente’s Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT), Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency (GMDNA), Orphanet and other domain specific collaborations as well as requests received from submitters via SNOMED International’s Content Request System.
SNOMED CT has added 500 new concepts for the purposes of supporting our Members in their efforts to map from SNOMED CT to ICD-11 and within the imaging domain; specifically, for angiography, SNOMED CT has remodelled 1,400 concepts to improve definitions for radiologists delivering clinical assurance that each concept is properly defined. A prime example of the mature use of SNOMED CT in the research domain, this enhancement provides a better way of searching and finding angiography procedures to support evidence-based decision making.
Within the January 31, 2021 Release, new content associated with project-driven initiatives reflect anatomy changes to support Cancer Synoptic Reporting and the addition of food insecurity concepts to existing Social Determinants of Health content from the consensus-driven standards being developed by the Gravity Project. Additional items that impact each release are updates to the SNOMED CT derived maps such as ICD-10 and ICD-O, the details of which have been included in the January 31, 2021 SNOMED CT International Edition Release Notes.
The January 2021 International Edition Release continues to be produced from the organization’s FHIR-enabled terminology server, Snowstorm, a major technical milestone achieved a year ago and a core focus of the organization’s recently released 2020-2025 organization strategy.
A continued focus on COVID-19 in 2021
As part of the organization’s ongoing global effort as it pertains to the Coronavirus pandemic, SNOMED International has received several requests for new vaccine content as regulators in multiple countries have approved these vaccines.
The January 31, 2021 International Edition Release of SNOMED CT includes 25+ new concepts added to support the vaccination administration process across finding, event, disorder, medicinal product, procedure, and situation hierarchies. All COVID-19 vaccine concepts have also been added to SNOMED International’s freely accessible Global Patient Set. Details about new and existing COVID-19 concepts are available from SNOMED International’s COVID-19 Related Content Page.
With vaccine-related requests and refinements submitted to SNOMED International early in January 2021, it is significant to note that vaccine content was not added to the December 31, 2020 Member Release, but instead to the final reviewed content in the January 31, 2021 Production Release. While being of extremely high importance to users of SNOMED CT globally, these new concepts have been deemed to be of low impact and low risk to the release process.
SNOMED CT’s COVID-19 content and resources
Efforts in 2020 to support health systems globally in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic have included a range of product content, guidance, and collaboration efforts and the following COVID-19 resources, inclusive of our specific January, March and July 2020 International Edition Releases of SNOMED CT, remain available:
- All added COVID-19 descriptions and concepts
- An updated SNOMED CT to ICD-10 map
- Guidance for COVID-19 data coding using SNOMED CT based on international Member contributions
- All COVID-19 and related SNOMED CT content added to the freely accessible Global Patient Set
- Participation in the COVID-19 Interoperability Alliance and COVID-19 Healthcare Coalition, as well as an open exchange in addressing the pandemic among the ecosystem of health information standards organizations as part of the Joint Initiative Council.
Where can I obtain the SNOMED CT International Edition Release?
A license is required to download and use SNOMED CT. Information and resources pertaining to the January 2021 SNOMED CT International Edition Release is located on our releases page.
If you have any questions about the January 2021 International Edition or have difficulties downloading the files from the distribution site, please contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org with “January 2021 International Edition Release question” in the subject line.
For general information or inquiries, please contact info@snomed.org.
Access the January 2021 Release & Release Notes
