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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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.

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

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Helen Wu created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

Global nursing report emphasizes need for digital health competency

Hi all, SNOMED International salutes the ..., a recently released report that provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the global nursing workforce. Framed in the context of the United Nations’ ..., an “action plan for people, the planet and prosperity,” the nursing report confirms that the 12 policy priorities of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global strategic directions for nursing and midwifery 2025 remain highly relevant for the period 2026-2030. It also identifies five emerging policy priorities in the areas of advanced practice nursing, gender equality, digital health and technology, the climate agenda, and nurses in situations of war and conflict. According to the report, nurses – the largest occupational group in the healthcare sector with about 28 million practitioners worldwide – “must be prepared and fully supported to competently utilize digital technologies across areas of professional practice from education to practice, research and management." SNOMED International has long supported this goal, initially informally, and then more formally beginning in 2020, when SNOMED International and the ... announced an agreement to work together to integrate the ... into SNOMED CT in a systematic way. The formal collaboration followed ICN’s review of its role in health informatics globally, enabling them to develop a strategy for supporting nursing globally. “The inclusion of nursing content in SNOMED CT greatly augments its value and utility,” says SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “It also supports the level of granularity nursing needs while connecting the profession to the broader healthcare community.” Read the release ....

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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.).

Janice Spence created an event in Health Terminologies

August 2025 SNOMED CT CA Release available
Tuesday, September 02, 2025

August 31, 2025 SNOMED CT CA Release available on the Terminology Server

Janice Spence created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

Advance Notice: SNOMED CT Database Closure: August 01, 2025

Hello, August 01, 2025, is the cut off day to accept any terminology changes to the SNOMED CT database. Requests for change (RFCs) received prior to this date are candidates for publication in the August 31, 2025, release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT (SNOMED CT CA). Any RFCs received after this date will be in scope for the next Canadian Edition Release in November. SNOMED CT is the largest and most comprehensive medical terminology in the world. The SNOMED CT Canadian Edition contains concepts that are specific for use in Canada and is maintained by Infoway. You can submit or follow requests in ... (Infoway Request Management System). Visit the ... to view the next release.

Helen Wu created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

SIIM and HIMSS recommend SNOMED CT as standard anatomy terminology for imaging

Hi all, SNOMED International is pleased to announce that the ... and the ..., following years of research and review of a number of existing ontologies, are recommending SNOMED CT to their members as the standard anatomy terminology for imaging. ... (HSEIC) identified anatomy as a crucial data element necessary to facilitate the consumption and interoperability of medical imaging data in 2019. The first paper, The Importance of Body Part Labeling to Enable Enterprise Imaging: A HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Collaborative White Paper, was published in 2021. The HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Data Standards Evaluation Workgroup conducted a comprehensive assessment of anatomical ontologies with the aim of facilitating enterprise imaging. They analyzed different ontologies and assessed their suitability for the complex landscape of enterprise imaging. The result of the evaluation work is the whitepaper, "Report of the HIMSS-SIIM Enterprise Imaging Community Data Standards Evaluation Workgroup: Anatomic Ontology Assessment," published in June 2024. SNOMED CT received the highest possible marks for almost every criterion and use-case workflow step. The assessment ultimately concludes that SNOMED CT is the most viable solution for standardizing anatomy terminology across the medical imaging community. Read the news release ....

Linda Parisien replied to a discussion in Health Terminologies

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

Hi Karim, I am Linda Parisien, the Senior manager of SNOMED CT, in the Canadian Standards Release Centre (CSRC). Can I recommend you send a request at our help desk at [email protected] for a quick meeting with the CSRC team, so we can provide any additional or basic support for your project? Thank you!

Karim Keshavjee replied to a discussion in Health Terminologies

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

Got it. Thanks for pointing that out. I do remember that about SNOMED --that it is a reference terminology. I'll go back and re-look at what I did, but I'm pretty sure I was using only records that have the term (disorder) in them.

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Global nursing report emphasizes need for digital health competency 07/11/25

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Advance Notice: SNOMED CT Database Closure: August 01, 2025 07/08/25

Helen Wu

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SIIM and HIMSS recommend SNOMED CT as standard anatomy terminology for imaging 06/26/25

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/25/25

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/24/25

Karim Keshavjee

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/24/25

Hi Debbie, I'm working on an Infoway-funded project to standardize terminology from primary care EMRs. We're one of the VIP (Vendor Innovation Program) grantees. We are cleaning up data retrospectively and also thinking about cleansing data...

Karim Keshavjee

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/24/25

Hi Jennifer, Great to see you here. Yes, let's connect. You can reach me at [email protected] to set up a time to chat. K

Karim Keshavjee

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/24/25

Thanks Alana, I've downloaded the ICD-10 mapping and have used it already. Would love to get an orientation to it to make sure I'm using it properly. K

Alana Lane

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/23/25

Hello Karim - nice to virtually meet you. I'm Alana Lane, a Program Lead for the Classifications and Terminologies team at CIHI. We've developed a map from SNOMED CT CA to ICD-10-CA, as well as ICD-9, for use in primary care. These maps are based...

Debbie Onos

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/23/25

Hi Karim, There are a lot of members here with an abundance of experience that could also assist and provide some guidance and advice, just depending on what the context is that you are working in. Do you work for a Primary Health organization th...

Jennifer Lawson

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/23/25

Hi Karim - Jennifer Lawson here. Happy to connect re: SNOMED CT CA, especially any mapping projects related to PC Dx. I am at CIHI now, working on the Primary Health Care Data Content Standards Development team :)

Jon Zammit

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/23/25

Great. For mapping projects it's very important to understand the SNOMED CT hierarchies and how they are intended to be used in an EHR. One of the common mistakes I see is that content is matched to SNOMED based purely on a lexical search. Take fo...

Karim Keshavjee

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/23/25

Great. Thanks Jon. I'll take the course.

Jon Zammit

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/23/25

Hi Karim, Many of your questions relate to SNOMED CT's design. For example, all SNOMED CT components have unique identifiers called SCTIDs. Concepts, descriptions (synonyms) and relationships all have unique SCTIDs. The components are linked toget...

Karim Keshavjee

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May 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 06/22/25

Hi All, I'm new to the SNOMED group. I've been working with SNOMED CT CA for the last month or so. Here's what I've discovered so far. Any suggestions or advice is highly appreciated. 1. Looking at the Full SNOMED CT CA file, I found >133K/3...

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