Dear all,
The Production release of the March 2020 SNOMED CT® Interim International Edition is now available to everyone, from the MLDS distribution site.
This INTERIM International Edition Release has been created as part of the ongoing global effort to tackle the Coronavirus outbreak, and as such includes the updated Coronavirus descriptions for Members and implementers. This is a full International Edition Release package containing changes to the content detailed in the news item (https://www.snomed.org/news-and-events/articles/changes-coronavirus-descriptions) under the following conditions:
- following SNOMED International's critical incident policy, there will NOT be a recall of the January release, simply an update in response to international renaming, to ensure that SNOMED CT is current when assisting with the global Coronavirus effort
- implementers are encouraged to update to the new edition, however, they are NOT obliged to do so as the concept modelling and identifiers are not being modified
- the entirety of these changes will also be incorporated into the upcoming July 2020 International Edition Release
Following the announcement from WHO regarding the Emergency use of ICD-10 codes for the COVID-19 disease outbreak, the ICD-10 map records have also been updated - please see the Release Notes (linked below) for full details of the additional records.
All files distributed for the March 2020 International Edition are available from the “March 2020 - v1.0 *INTERIM RELEASE*” 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_20200309T120000Z.zip
The Release Notes ("doc_SnomedCTReleaseNotes_Current-en-US_INT_20200309.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 changes to this release (and future releases), as published on the Early Visibility page here: https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/July+2020+Early+Visibility+Release+Notice+-+Planned+changes+to+upcoming+SNOMED+International+Release+packages and in the Release Notes.
If you have any questions about the March 2020 International Edition or have difficulties downloading the files from the distribution site, please contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org with “March 2020 International Edition release question” in the subject line.
Kind regards,
Andrew Atkinson | Release Manager