Health Terminologies

Discuss and share updates, requirements, challenges, issues, solutions, presentations and work items related to health terminologies and classifications (SNOMED CT, pCLOCD, etc.).

Members: 497

Contact: Himanshu Khetarpal

Admins: Helen Wu, Linda Monico

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Discuss and share updates, requirements, challenges, issues, solutions, presentations and work items related to health terminologies and classifications (SNOMED CT, pCLOCD, etc.).

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What is the Health Terminologies Community?

The Health Terminologies Community is a place to share and learn about new and existing implementations of, and updates to, health-related terminologies, terminology subsets, and classification systems used in Canada.

Members actively contribute to discussions and share information and advice related to the implementation, development, maintenance, and use of multiple vocabularies in various health-related projects.

This community is responsive to its membership, actively encouraging, welcoming, and relying on the submission of discussion topics, agenda items, and other items such as education and vendor engagement from its members.

The community will engage and collaborate with other groups or InfoCentral communities on broader related topics when relevant.

Major reference terminologies and classification systems of interest include, but are not limited to:

SNOMED CT
LOINC/pCLOCD
CCDD (Canadian Clinical Drug Dataset)
ICD-10-CA
ATC

Canada Health Infoway is the National Release Centre (NRC) for SNOMED CT, pCLOCD, and HL7 in Canada.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is responsible for the development and publication of ICD-10-CA (the Canadian modification of ICD-10), as well as CCI (Canadian Classification of Health Interventions).

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If you have an idea for a community, working group, or project that will drive interoperability forward, let us know by contacting us.

CO-LEADERS

Himanshu Khetarpal,,Regional Manager, Informatics and Health Terminology Standards, Providence Health
Anil Patel, Manager, Standards, Connected Care, Canada Health Infoway

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Janice Spence created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available!

The May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available. The May 2025 Canadian Edition (CA Edition) is harmonized with the SNOMED International May 01, 2025, monthly release. Content includes ..., new French translations, and new concepts requested by Canadian stakeholders to support diverse implementation projects across the country. For the first time, the SNOMED CT Canadian Edition also includes new drug related content to support the .... New concepts and descriptions have been created in this CA Edition to support Canadian implementations, including: ongoing immunization work; the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI)0 Pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework (pCHDCF) and Canadian Core Data for Interoperability (CACDI) ; updates to the organism hierarchy to support provincial Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), other projects from Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS) such as CNESST, CISSSMO, and PTI . Infoway also releases updated versions of SNOMED CT valuesets as part of the CA Edition. The May 2025 CA Edition of SNOMED CT and all pan-Canadian valuesets are available on the Infoway .... Release notes for the CA Edition are available ...along with general editorial guidelines and guidelines for making change requests in the Canadian context. How to browse published terms All published Canadian Edition English and French SNOMED CT terms are also available in the Canadian Edition available in the SNOMED CT Browser. You are invited to...now! The SNOMED CT CA Edition release is available programmatically or for direct download via the ... Please see the ... for more information. Content is also available for browsing using the Ontoserver .... See the ... for guidance. How to browse terms under development Canada Health Infoway’s SNOMED CT ...(CA Build) is a development environment that also provides ways to browse and search SNOMED CT Canadian Edition English and French content that has not yet been published. For more information, please visit our ....

Julie Boutin created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

SI – Representation of Human Genes in SNOMED CT

Hello, The SNOMED International Content Team is seeking feedback on the Representation of Human Genes in SNOMED CT. The purpose of this proposal is to introduce a suggested structure for the proper representation of human gene names and their associated chromosomal locations in the context of body structures, specifically as subcellular structures. It does not intend to replicate all of the genomic relationships that might be represented in a gene ontology such as HUGO, but only those necessary to position clinically relevant genes appropriately. This proposal does not include any other relationships of genes such as the association of genes or gene variants with their associated clinical conditions. This proposal also does not address the notion of a gene as an informational artifact, but focuses on the structural relationship of a gene to its associated chromosome to allow for queries that may identify all conditions associated with mutations in a specific chromosome. For more details, please see the attached .... Please provide feedback on this proposal via this forum before June 10th. Thank you,

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Health Terminologies

Discuss and share updates, requirements, challenges, issues, solutions, presentations and work items related to health terminologies and classifications (SNOMED CT, pCLOCD, etc.).

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Health Terminologies

Discuss and share updates, requirements, challenges, issues, solutions, presentations and work items related to health terminologies and classifications (SNOMED CT, pCLOCD, etc.).

Helen Wu created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

HTC May 20th Meeting Materials

Hello HTC members, The May 20th, 2025 Health Terminologies Community meeting presentation decks are available here: ... & .... A recording of the meeting can be accessed here: .... If you have any questions related to the meeting, please feel free to contact us. Thank you!

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Health Terminologies

Discuss and share updates, requirements, challenges, issues, solutions, presentations and work items related to health terminologies and classifications (SNOMED CT, pCLOCD, etc.).

Julie Boutin created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

SI – Inactivation of

Hello, The SNOMED International Content Team is seeking feedback on the impact of inactivating

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Sat May 31 @ 8:00AM - 05:00PM
May 2025 SNOMED CT CA Release

Tue Jun 17 @11:00AM - 12:00PM
HTC Monthly Meeting

Tue Jul 15 @11:00AM - 12:00PM
HTC Monthly Meeting

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 05/30/25

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SI – Representation of Human Genes in SNOMED CT 05/23/25

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