Dear all,
The Production release of the December 2024 SNOMED CT® International Edition is now available to all users, from the MLDS distribution site.
All files distributed for the December 2024 International Edition are available from the "December 2024 v1.0" version in the "SNOMED CT International Edition" project, which can be found on the "SNOMED Releases" page in MLDS, accessed here:
The SNOMED CT International Edition contains SNOMED CT files in Release Format 2 (RF2) only, distributed in a zipped file archive:
- SnomedCT_InternationalRF2_PRODUCTION_20241201T120000Z.zip
The Release Notes ("doc_SnomedCTReleaseNotes_Current-en-US_INT_20241201.pdf") can be downloaded as distinct files from the same MLDS release version, or accessed online:
Those Members using MLDS as their distribution site will find that their affiliates have access to the new release automatically.
All vendors and affiliates should please contact their National Release Centre (NRC) for information on when the latest release package will be available for download from the NRC website. Contact details for all NRC's can be found here - http://www.snomed.org/members/
Please refresh your memory of all major changes to this upcoming release, as published on the Early Visibility page here: https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/2024+Early+Visibility+Release+Notifications, and in the Release Notes (where changes to the final Production package made throughout the Release cycle are logged).
If you have any questions about the December 2024 International Edition release, or have difficulties downloading the files from the distribution site, please contact SNOMED International at release@snomed.org with "December 2024 International Edition release question" in the subject line.
Kind regards,
Andrew Atkinson | Release Manager
Dear all,
The November 2024 Production release of the EDQM (European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare) Dose Forms to SNOMED CT Map package is now available from the MLDS distribution site.
This is the first Production release of this product, and is dependent upon (and should therefore be evaluated in the context of) the July 2024 SNOMED CT International Edition.
All files distributed for the November 2024 Production release are available from the "November 2024 Production Release v1.0" version in the “EDQM Dose Forms to SNOMED CT Map package” project, which can be found on the “SNOMED Releases” page in MLDS, accessed here (please ensure that you login to MLDS first):
The SNOMED CT Production release is distributed in a zipped archive file in the official RF2 format as follows (the Release Notes - doc_SnomedCT-SNOMEDEDQMMapPackage-PRODUCTION-ReleaseNotes_Current-en-US_INT_20241130.pdf - are located separately in the same repository as normal):
- SnomedCT_SNOMEDEDQMMapPackage_PRODUCTION_20241130T120000Z.zip
The SNOMED CT Production Release Notes and User Guide can also be accessed online:
- https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/EDQM+Dose+Forms+to+SNOMED+CT+Map+package+PRODUCTION+Release+Notes+-+November+2024
- https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/DOCEDQM/EDQM+to+SNOMED+CT+Dose+Form+Map+User+Guide
If you have any questions about the November 2024 Production release, or have difficulties downloading this file, please contact SNOMED International at release@snomed.org with "November 2024 EDQM Dose Forms to SNOMED CT Map package Production release question” in the subject line.
Kind regards,
Andrew Atkinson | Release Manager
Dear all
An opportunity has been identified to further improve the Release schedule for the SNOMED CT Spanish Edition package. Currently the Spanish Edition Release is published on 31st March + 30th September each year, which were the new dates designed to reduce the time between the dependent International Edition + the Publication of the Spanish Edition package. Now that this has been trialled and confirmed to be of benefit, we have further analysed the dates to identify what would be most helpful to the Spanish Edition users.
The conclusion was that users can most likely benefit from moving our release closer to theirs, rather than moving them earlier and continuing using the "January" and "July" International releases as the dependent versions. This is because the majority of users of the Spanish Edition are not able to change their release dates to bring them forward, in order to take advantage of the additional time gained by us releasing the Spanish Edition a month earlier.
Therefore, instead of continuing the refine the process down to release the Spanish Edition earlier each year, we will instead cut off the translations much later in the cycle, in order to allow us to use a later International Edition as the baseline (September or even October, for example). This will allow many more translations to get into each Spanish Edition release, but still allow the users to retain their own Release dates.
The proposed new dates for the Spanish Edition release each year are therefore:
- May 10th + November 10th
- They would be dependent upon much later International Edition releases than in previous years - for example April 1st + October 1st (rather than January or July)
- The first release to use the new dates would be targeted for 10th May 2025
We will transition to this new release schedule as planned, unless we receive any critical objections in the meantime. If you have any concerns or questions on these proposed changes, please let us know on release@snomed.org, or by responding to this message directly.
Kind regards,
Andrew Atkinson | Release Manager
Dear all,
The Production release of the November 2024 SNOMED CT® International Edition is now available to all users, from the MLDS distribution site.
All files distributed for the November 2024 International Edition are available from the "November 2024 v1.0" version in the "SNOMED CT International Edition" project, which can be found on the "SNOMED Releases" page in MLDS, accessed here:
The SNOMED CT International Edition contains SNOMED CT files in Release Format 2 (RF2) only, distributed in a zipped file archive:
- SnomedCT_InternationalRF2_PRODUCTION_20241101T120000Z.zip
The Release Notes ("doc_SnomedCTReleaseNotes_Current-en-US_INT_20241101.pdf") can be downloaded as distinct files from the same MLDS release version, or accessed online:
Those Members using MLDS as their distribution site will find that their affiliates have access to the new release automatically.
All vendors and affiliates should please contact their National Release Centre (NRC) for information on when the latest release package will be available for download from the NRC website. Contact details for all NRC's can be found here - http://www.snomed.org/members/
Please refresh your memory of all major changes to this upcoming release, as published on the Early Visibility page here: https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/2024+Early+Visibility+Release+Notifications, and in the Release Notes (where changes to the final Production package made throughout the Release cycle are logged).
If you have any questions about the November 2024 International Edition release, or have difficulties downloading the files from the distribution site, please contact SNOMED International at release@snomed.org with "November 2024 International Edition release question" in the subject line.
Kind regards,
Andrew Atkinson | Release Manager