1 Introduction
1.1 Background
This document is to provide visibility to the Members of relevant feedback received during the Beta Pre-Production Release period, and any actions taken as a result of this feedback.
1.2 Purpose
This document provides information related to differences between the files distributed as part of the January 2021 Beta Release of the SNOMED CT International edition, and the Members’ distribution of the January 2021 SNOMED CT International edition.
Please contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org with any questions related to the contents of this document.
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3 Scope2 Scope
This document relates exclusively to the January 2021 2022 SNOMED CT International Edition, and not any prior Releases.
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4 Audience3 Audience
This document is intended for use by SNOMED International Member National Release Centres only, and should not be distributed to Affiliate licensees without permission from SNOMED International.
2 Notes for the January
20212022 Member Release
2.1 Summary
The feedback about the SNOMED CT International Beta Release content that was received during the Beta Pre-Production period, was used to update the International edition release package ready for the Member release.
There was some feedback provided that, for a variety of reasons, didn’t result in changes to this Release version, but instead will be resolved as part of the next editing cycle, ready for publication in future releases. Details of these “Known Issues” can be found in section 3.1 of the Release Notes that are published alongside the International Edition Member release package.
The feedback that resulted in changes being made to the Member Release package for the January 2021 2022 International Edition are detailed below in section 2.23.
SNOMED International thanks those Members and all others who contributed feedback.
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2 Advanced Notice of upcoming changes to the International Edition Release Schedule
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As you may already know SNOMED International received several requests related to new content to be added for the incoming COVID vaccines. Although the requests were received after the new content deadlines for the January 2021 Release, there is still an opportunity to include these Urgent changes in the final Release, due to them being low impact + low risk, but of extremely high importance. As we're expecting more vaccine-related requests, and potentially refinements to the original requests in early January 2021 (as vaccines are approved by regulators in multiple countries), we are not including this content in the Member Release (published on 31st December 2020), but instead will incorporate the final, reviewed content in the Production Release on 31st January 2021. If you would like to be involved in the review of this content, please get in touch with SNOMED International asap via info@snomed.org are transitioning to a more frequent (monthly) delivery schedule for the International Edition of SNOMED CT. The move towards more frequent releases of SNOMED CT will realise several benefits, including:
Whilst most users will continue unaffected (as they can simply continue to download the releases every 6 months as always), this transition will necessarily involve a few changes to process/packages:
NOTE: SNOMED International worked closely with Members over the past couple of years to better understand the impact of the proposed model, and have incorporated feedback into the new processes. This was designed to prevent any adverse impact to users, however if you have any further questions or concerns please contact us on support@snomed.org. |
2.3 Items Reported in the Pre-Production
2.2 Items Reported in the Betafeedback stage, that were resolved for the Member Release
The following items were resolved in the January 2021 2022 International Member Release package, between before the publication of the Beta Release and Member Release(s):
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Approvals
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Draft Amendment History
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0.1
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Andrew Atkinson
First draft for review and comment