Are you a SNOMED International Member located in the Asia Pacific Region? Do you have an interest in hosting the 2024 October Business Meetings and SNOMED CT Expo? If so, the Call for Expression of Interest is now open!
Being a host presents a unique opportunity to showcase to local stakeholders, and guests abroad, your approach and implementation of SNOMED CT and how it fits into your healthcare ecosystem design. A collaborative effort, you are a strategic partner in contributing to the decisions that shape the delivery of the SNOMED CT Expo, with SNOMED International providing most operational activities, including logistics, planning and execution. Visit the October Business Meetings & SNOMED CT Expo - Prospective Host Resource Page for more information on what's involved.
Member hosts have included:
- Portugal (2022)
- Malaysia (2019)
- Canada (2018)
- Slovak Republic (2017)
- New Zealand (2016)
- Uruguay (2015)
- Netherlands (2014)
- United States (2013)
- Sweden (2012)
Please note that following the regional order of holding SNOMED CT Expo events, the organization will next be looking for a host for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region for the 2025 event.
Important dates:
If you are considering responding to the Expression of Interest, please contact Liara Tutina before July 12, 2022. For all subsequent timelines, please refer to the linked document accompanying this post.
Visit the October Business Meetings & SNOMED CT Expo - Prospective Host Resource Page for more information.
Questions?
Contact Liara Tutina, Shelley Lipon or Kelly Kuru
Thank you for your attendance and participation at the 2022 April Business Meetings in London.
Linked below please find the videos and presentations from the proceedings of the April Business Meetings:
- Keynote Address: Dr. Ben Bloom, Consultant Emergency Physician, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust:
- SNOMED CT Community Updates:
- CEO Update - Open General Assembly:
- Member Update - Open General Assembly:
- Closing Plenary Address:
Please contact info@snomed.org for any additional information pertaining to these resources.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
COMMUNITY UPDATES:
CEO ADDRESS:
MEMBER UPDATE:
CLOSING PLENARY:
SNOMED International wishes to remind those planning to attend the forthcoming April 2022 Business Meetings in London to make the most of the excellent delegate bedroom rates that have been negotiated at the event venue, the DoubleTree by Hilton (Tower of London).
Time is ticking to make your booking as rooms must be reserved before March 12, 2022 to obtain the discounted rates, please click here to book now using the unique event code.
SCHEDULE
As previously announced, the conference will mark a return to hybrid events for the organization and Community of Practice, providing both in-person and virtual opportunities to participate.
- Hybrid sessions will run in London, UK and online from April 3-6, 2022
- Virtual-only sessions will run from April 4-14, 2022
- View the full schedule here.
REGISTRATION
Joining us in London? Register now.
Attending virtually? Registration is not necessary - Zoom links to join open sessions will be shared via the organization's What's on this Week calendar.
KEEPING YOU SAFE
We have a robust COVID-19 health and safety plan in place to ensure our participants stay safe before, during and after the London event. To learn more, we encourage you to review the plan.
We very much look forward to welcoming you again to London. For any additional information pertaining to the April 2022 Business Meetings, please contact events@snomed.org
March 2, 2022
At the end of 2021, the European Health and Digital Executive Agency took a firm step towards increasing the semantic interoperability, re-use and the cross border exchange of health data. The European Union will provide its Member States with 60 per cent funding towards SNOMED International membership until 2027, via the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA). The goal of this initiative is to allow the residents of participating member states to easily access and share their own health data in their own language with healthcare providers as they travel in the European Union.
According to the European Commission, the objective of the agreement is to facilitate the use of a standardized terminology to express clinical meanings for clinicians and to benefit the citizens of the European Union...
March 1, 2022
SNOMED International, the Thai Health Information Standards Development Centre (THIS), and Health Systems Research Institute (HSRI) are pleased to announce that Thailand has joined the SNOMED CT Community as SNOMED International’s 42nd Member.
Thailand is the eleventh country in the Asia Pacific Region, following Australia, Brunei, Hong Kong – China, India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Republic of Armenia, Republic of Korea and Singapore to join SNOMED International, further extending SNOMED CT use, implementation experience and collaboration opportunities for the region. Effective January 2022, all users in Thailand can register to request a free license for use of SNOMED CT from the country’s National Release Center...
February 28, 2022
SNOMED International has published the SNOMED CT International Edition every six months, on 31st January and 31st July each year as its means of releasing the product. As the organization has been communicating over the past year, SNOMED International is transitioning to a more frequent delivery schedule of the SNOMED CT International Release Package. While this is a newly available feature, it is important to recognize that this enhancement only changes your current process if you or your National Release Center decides to consume frequent releases.
Last year, SNOMED International began to pilot a more frequent delivery schedule of the SNOMED CT International Release Package. Making the product available on a monthly basis means less down-time required between release cycles, enabling faster turnaround of authoring content and a more agile and responsive terminology. Additionally, smaller content projects can potentially reduce the time required for urgent content changes...
Read the full announcement and browse our Frequently Asked Questions.
Do you have SNOMED CT knowledge and experience that you want to share with the global community? Submit an abstract for a SNOMED CT Expo 2022 oral presentation or e-poster today!
We're looking for presentations that focus on using the clinical terminology in a product, service or research. Submissions must align with one of the four program streams:
- Enhancing Clinical Practice and Outcomes
- Terminology Leading Practices
- Demonstrating Implementation Excellence
- **New** Advances in Research and Innovation
Don't miss out on a great opportunity to contribute to the global knowledge pool of SNOMED CT use, enhance your professional reputation and build awareness of your organization's achievements using the terminology.
Wait, there's more!
All submissions will be entered into a weekly prize draw. Draws will be made each Friday between now and April 17, 2022.
Key Dates:
April 17, 2022: Deadline for abstracts
May 27, 2022: Submitters notified
SUBMIT TODAY
Check out the brief video below for inspiration!
In about 60 seconds, learn how presenting at the SNOMED CT Expo 2022 can benefit you, your organization and the international digital health community...
The 2022 Products & Services Catalog is now available.
Available on the SNOMED International Resources webpage, this is a comprehensive guide to our products and services, complete with descriptions and links. It suggests relevant groups of products and services for different customer groups.
Please browse the Catalog and contact us with any inquiries.
What’s new?
The January 31, 2022 release contains 4,438 new concepts and 1,143 inactivations within SNOMED CT’s 350,000+ concepts. It delivers on SNOMED International’s commitment to make SNOMED CT richer, more precise and more useful to its global users by improving the structural quality of the clinical terminology on an ongoing basis.
Release highlights
Continuous quality improvement and enhancement of existing content is an ongoing process undertaken by SNOMED International in preparation for every release. The January 2022 International Release has seen a continuation of the work driven by contributions from Kaiser Permanente's Convergent Medical Terminology, Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency, Orphanet and other domain specific collaborations as well as content requests received. The January 31 2022 release contains additions and changes across many hierarchies including, but not limited to, body structure, clinical findings, procedures, pharmaceutical and biologic products and substances, as well as COVID-19 specific content...
London, United Kingdom -- SNOMED International released today its refreshed SNOMED CT Case for Investment report. Available on a new interactive platform, the Case for Investment presents evidence that SNOMED CT adds measurable value to a broad range of primary and secondary health processes leveraging SNOMED CT encoded data to enable improved patient outcomes. Through the narrative, the report provides accessible and understandable answers to questions such as, “what is SNOMED CT?”, ‘what makes SNOMED CT unique?’, “how and where is it in use globally?” and “why invest in SNOMED CT?”
Visit the interactive value platform at value.snomed.org
SNOMED International is pleased to announce a new collaboration agreement with the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP).
Effective as of October 1, 2021 for a five-year term, this collaboration emerged from the need identified by the SNOMED International Dentistry Clinical Reference Group (CRG) to update and augment the periodontology content in SNOMED CT. The Dentistry CRG provides advice and guidance to ensure that SNOMED CT dentistry content meets the needs of users globally and is implementable in Dentistry Information Systems.
To ensure periodontal content within SNOMED CT is in line with current practice, the Dentistry CRG advised incorporation of content from the Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions, jointly published by the AAP and the EFP.
November 30, 2021
SNOMED International and New Zealand-based The Sovereignty Network are pleased to share news of an alliance that has started to address child and maternity health in Africa through Sovereignty’s “Ejo Health” SNOMED CT encoded application.
In Rwanda, where the initiative was piloted, “Ejo Health” means “Tomorrow’s Health.” Chronicling the initiative in a recently created feature video, Community Healthcare Workers transformed cumbersome paper records into easily accessible, transferable and measurable healthcare data on iPads or Android tablets for the benefit of their patients. Encoded patient data also has the potential to be made available to the breadth of the care network that the patient engages with.
Configured with Community Health Workers, staff and senior district administrators, Initial use of the Ejo Health app shows it to be "Quicker, Safer, Easier and Relevant..."
Read the full announcement and contact info@snomed.org with inquiries.
November 25, 2021
In 2022, SNOMED International will extend the core of SNOMED CT’s structured clinical terminology to deliver an open, standalone sub-ontology to support the scope of content within the International Patient Summary (IPS) to enhance the existing cross border movement of information, and ultimately health system interoperability.
Unlike SNOMED International’s Global Patient Set, a flat list of SNOMED CT codes and terms, an IPS sub-ontology will provide implementers with a product that can be used in healthcare solutions using the power of SNOMED CT through its query language and hierarchies for the specified scope. Use of the IPS sub-ontology will allow for more effective use of clinical data analytics and decision support, and for Artificial Intelligence applications...
Resources:
Visit SNOMED International's IPS Sub-Ontology information page or subscribe to the organization’s news service to learn more as this initiative progresses. For additional information, contact info@snomed.org.
On behalf of CEO, Don Sweete, and the SNOMED International organization, we extend our thanks to all who participated in the 2021 October Business Meetings that took place over the past few weeks.
Linked here are presentations and documents presented at the Business Meetings for your information and reference.
Resources provided here include:
- A video recording and presentation of the German NRC's journey to date with SNOMED CT delivered by Stefanie Weber
- Q3 2021 SNOMED CT Community Updates prepared by SNOMED International representatives.
The organization is now preparing for the April 2022 Business Meetings scheduled to take place in London, April 2-7, 2022. Meeting Chairs will be contacted before the close of 2021 regarding their schedule requests and registration will open in January 2022.
Please contact events@snomed.org for any additional information.
Presentations & Resources:
VIDEO RECORDING:
PDF:
LINK: Q3 SNOMED CT Community Updates
