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Dear SNOMED CT Users, We would like to inform you that there is currently a technical issue impacting access to the February 2026 SNOMED CT Canadian Edition in the .... Our team is actively working with SI to resolve this issue as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend using the Terminology Server ... browser or the ..., which has all content available. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to fix this. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to .... Best regards, Canadian Standards Release Centre

Hello, We are pleased to announce that the February 2026 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! The February 2026 Canadian Edition (CA Edition) is harmonized with the SNOMED International February 01, 2026, monthly release. Content includes ..., new French translations, and new concepts requested by Canadian stakeholders to support diverse implementation projects across the country. New concepts and descriptions have been created in this CA Edition to support Canadian implementations, including: ...(CMT), ongoing immunization work; Ontario’s Provincial Health Service Directory (PHSD), Alberta’s Referral services; the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) 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 diagnostics and Dossier Santé Connecté Infoway also releases updated versions of SNOMED CT valuesets as part of the CA Edition. The February 2026 CA Edition of SNOMED CT and all pan-Canadian valuesets are available on the ... 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 ... 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 Shrimp Browser. 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 ...

Hi HTC members, Infoway will continue to coordinate the Affiliate Agreement with HL7 International on behalf of Canada. For those individuals or organizations that require access to, or licenses associated with content managed by HL7 International, the renewal period is now open. Individuals or organizations that require licenses to content owned by HL7 International or desire to participate in working groups or ballots with HL7 International are encouraged to renew their HL7 Canada Affiliate access. To ensure the continuity of your HL7 Canada Affiliate access, please make a payment prior to April 1, 2026, for the 2026-2027 year period. To renew or register: 1. login to your Infoway Account on InfoCentral - if you don't have an Infoway Account, ... first 2. click on your username in the top right of the grey bar to open your user profile 3. go to the ... and submit the form and payment. Accounts that have not been renewed will revert to that of an InfoCentral user on April 8, 2026. If you do not currently have HL7 Canada Affiliate access, you can register by following the steps above. To learn more about access to pan-Canadian standards, solutions, and HL7 International standards access, please visit the ... on InfoCentral. For more information on accessing standards, please .... Thank you,

LOINC has released LOINC Version 2.82, now available for download from ...and accessible via the ... and ... using HL7® FHIR®. ...from LOINC 2.82: Advancing global interoperability • 1,456 LOINC concepts updated to enhance data exchange, support patient-centered care, and strengthen public health and research use cases. LOINC Ontology updates (in collaboration with SNOMED International) • Updates to coagulation tests: Components with method/technique information has been moved to the Method attribute. • Updates to antibiotic susceptibility tests: Components with specific concentrations has been moved to the Method attribute. 1,077 new LOINC concepts added across key domains: • Laboratory: Expanded content in molecular pathology, microbiology, allergy testing, toxicology, and clinical laboratory panels, supporting a broad range of diagnostic workflows. • Clinical: New content to strengthen support for clinical assessment, diagnostic imaging, procedures, and health-related social needs, enabling interoperable representation of care across settings. • Documents & Surveys: Additions that enhance structured clinical documentation, patient-reported data capture, and standardized assessments influencing health outcomes. Technical enhancements to better serve the LOINC community • Introduction of a Detailed Part Model on LOINC detail pages, enabling users to better understand relationships between individual LOINC terms and their composite Parts (LP codes), including sub-parts within Component, Time, and System. To view example: ... • Preparations underway for a more frequent release cadence, supported by technical infrastructure and process updates to enable smaller, more manageable, and increasingly automated releases. Canadian French translations • New and updated Canadian French translations of LOINC Parts are available within the LOINC v2.82 Linguistic Variants file package. You can explore the full details of this release in the .... You can also ... to join the Spring 2026 LOINC Webinar on March 13, 2026 (8:00–10:00 a.m. EST) for an overview of the 2.82 release and insights into upcoming plans and priorities. Looking Ahead: pCLOCD release Infoway’s Canadian Standards Release Centre is actively preparing the next pCLOCD release, scheduled for publication on March 31, 2026. This upcoming release will: • Incorporate relevant updates from LOINC Version 2.82 • Address ... identified by Canadian stakeholders • Continue to support pan-Canadian interoperability, laboratory and document-based clinical data exchange between systems.

Hello, The SNOMED International Content Team would like to informs the SNOMED community of planned modelling updates to concepts relating to obesity and central obesity. Following review and agreement within the Nutrition & Dietetics Clinical Reference Group, the changes address identified clinical inaccuracies and align SNOMED CT with internationally accepted definitions and usage. For more details on the proposed solution, please see the attached .... Please provide comments, questions, and suggestions on the Briefing Note via this forum. Thank you,

Hi everyone, As a follow‑up to our last HTC meeting, we wanted to share a few resources that may be helpful, including training materials available on the ... These include: ... If you have any further questions related to SHRIMP or LOINC, please feel free to share them here or reach out via the InfoCentral Contact Us link. If there’s interest, we can consider whether this would be a valuable topic for discussion with the full group at the March 17 HTC meeting. As always, if you have ideas or topics you’d like considered for an upcoming HTC meeting, we welcome those as well. Thank you, Morgan & Armaan