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Page At A Glance
1. Introduction
SNOMED CT terminology provides a common language that enables a consistent way of indexing, storing, retrieving, and aggregating clinical data across specialties and sites of care.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development organization (IHTSDO®), trading as SNOMED International, maintains the SNOMED CT technical design, the content architecture, the SNOMED CT content (includes the concepts table, the descriptions table, the relationships table, a history table, and ICD mappings), and related technical documentation.
2. Background
This document provides a summarized description of the content changes included in the October 2024 Production release of the SNOMED Clinical Terms® Managed Service Australia Edition package.
It also includes technical notes detailing the known issues which have been identified (should any of these exist). These are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the fix has been discussed and agreed, but has yet to be implemented.
This Australia Edition package is based upon the SNOMED CT® January 2024 International Edition release.
2.1 Scope
This document is written for the purpose described above and is not intended to provide details of the technical specifications for SNOMED CT or encompass every change made during the release.
3. Content Development Activity
3.1. Summary
This Edition contains concepts, relationships and reference sets ........... for healthcare professionals/for use in healthcare profession.
3.2 New and Updated Content
New Australian content in this release:
Inactivated concepts
New concepts
No new concepts have been created in this release.
Removed reference sets
No removed reference sets.
The other changes are updates of existing content.
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Differences found in package Comparison |
No RF2 records impacted |
Rationale |
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Concept files |
5 |
1 records added/updated, plus 4 inactivated |
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Association files |
13 |
13 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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AttributeValue files |
5464 |
5461 records added/updated, plus 3 inactivated |
|
Description files (EN) |
2 |
2 records added/updated |
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Description files (FR) |
38186 |
37582 records added/updated, plus 604 inactivated |
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Description files (NL) |
24779 |
23791 records added/updated, plus 988 inactivated |
|
Description files (DE) |
55254 |
55254 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
|
Language files (EN) |
2 |
2 records added/updated |
|
Language files (FR) |
38550 |
37949 records added/updated, plus 601 inactivated |
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Language (FR) context specific GP Refset |
49 |
6 records added/updated, plus 43 inactivated |
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Language files (NL) |
24940 |
23953 records added/updated, plus 987 inactivated |
|
Language (NL) context specific GP Refset |
10 |
8 records added/updated, plus 2 inactivated |
|
Language files (DE) |
55255 |
55255 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Inferred Relationship files |
56 |
3 records added/updated, plus 53 inactivated |
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OWLExpression files |
5 |
1 records added/updated, plus 4 inactivated |
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RefsetDescriptor files |
2 |
2 records added, plus 0 updated |
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Translated Plant Materials Simple Refset |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Translated Edible Substances Simple Refset |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Translated Animal Materials Simple Refset |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Belgian GP refset files |
63 |
28 records added/updated, plus 35 inactivated |
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Extended Map files (containing the new BE ICD-10 map content) |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Belgian subset for medical problems in patient health records refset |
79 |
32 records added/updated, plus 47 inactivated |
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Belgian subset for Vaccination Simple Refset |
2 |
1 records added/updated, plus 1 inactivated |
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Belgian subset for Allergy Intolerance Causative Agent Drug Simple Refset |
3 |
1 records added/updated, plus 2 inactivated |
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Belgian subset for Allergy Intolerance Causative Agent Non-Drug Simple Refset |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Belgian subset for Allergy Intolerance Manifestation Simple Refset files |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Identifier files |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Relationship Concrete files |
0 |
0 records added/updated, plus 0 inactivated |
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Subset For Nursing In Patient Health Records Simple Refset |
118 |
116 records added/updated, plus 2 inactivated |
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Subset For Neonatology In Patient Health Records Simple Refset |
10 |
4 records added/updated, plus 6 inactivated |
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Subset For Pulmonology In Patient Health Records Simple Refset |
5 |
2 records added/updated, plus 3 inactivated |
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Subset For Rheumatology In Patient Health Records Simple Refset |
4 |
1 records added/updated, plus 3 inactivated |
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Subset For Nephrology In Patient Health Records Simple Refset |
2 |
1 records added/updated, plus 1 inactivated |
4. Technical notes
4.1. Known Issues
Known Issues are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the resolution has been discussed and agreed but has yet to be implemented. This can be due to a number of reasons, from lack of capacity within the current editing cycle, to the risk of impact to the stability of SNOMED CT if the fix were to be deployed at that stage in the Product lifecycle.
For the SNOMED CT Managed Service - Australia Edition Release, the following Known Issues were identified, and agreed to be resolved in the next editing cycle:
4.2. Technical notes
4.2.1. New Refsets
Please be aware that the following new files have been added to the Australia Edition Release package, representing the new refsets being introduced in this editing cycle:
4.3. Notice of changes to the AU Edition Release package
In line with the new implementation of Annotations, two new refsets have been added to the International Edition Release package, from December 2023 onwards:
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- der2_scsRefset_ComponentAnnotationStringValueSnapshot_INT_20231201.txt
- der2_sscsRefset_MemberAnnotationStringValueSnapshot_INT_20231201.txt
The latest version of the AU Edition release is based upon the ????????????????????? 2024 International Edition, and therefore these Annotations file types will also be included in the AU Edition release package from the October 2024 AU release onwards, until further notice:
Approvals
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Final Version |
Date |
Approver |
Comments |
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| 1.0 |
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Approved | |
| 1.0 |
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Approved |
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Draft Amendment History
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Version |
Date |
Editor |
Comments |
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0.1 |
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Andrew Atkinson | Initial draft created |
| 1.0 |
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Final updates |