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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Contact: Himanshu Khetarpal

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

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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 June 17th Meeting Materials

Hello HTC members, The June 17th, 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!

Mary Ho created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set – June 2025 Release Now Available

Hi all, The latest update to the Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD) is now available in both English and French. You can access and implement the updated content using the following methods: • Download the CCDD content directly from the ... or access programmatically. Refer to the ... for detailed instructions. • Search the CCDD content using the ... . Guidance is available in the .... Comprehensive ... and ... can be found on InfoScribe. If you have any questions or feedback, please contact us at [email protected] or through our contact us .... Thank you.

Helen Wu created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

HTC June 17th Meeting Agenda

Hi HTC Members, Please join us on Tuesday, June 17th, 2025, at 11 a.m. (ET) for our regular monthly meeting. The Agenda for the June Meeting: 1. ... – Streamlining primary care and reducing administrative burden through the use of provincial LOINC document standards 2. Linda Parisien (Infoway) – Canadian Medicines Terminology (CMT) SNOMED CT Drug extension Please remember that registration is required before joining the meeting. The registration link is in the Infoway Events Calendar and repeated here. You are invited to a Zoom meeting. When: June 17th, 2025 at 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Please register for the monthly meeting: https://infoway-inforoute.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYsc-msrzwvE9GtGqiLBJbwv1rP9hFqp6Ee#/registration After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there!

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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 replied to a discussion in Health Terminologies

SI – Inactivation of

Thank you Jon for this additional information which could indeed be very useful to take into consideration during future development/implementations. Elena, as you already mentioned, the concept 435941000124100 |Patient given medical advice (situation)| is not affected and considering that it is only one concept that would be impacted by these changes, we suggest you submit a request for new concept via InfoRMS for us to fully assess how we can support your requirements, taking into account your particular use case. Thank you,

Jon Zammit replied to a discussion in Health Terminologies

SI – Inactivation of

Yes, I can how those constraints would be challenging. However, I would add that by taking the contextual representation (and assoicated language) out of the terminology and into the information model, you would not be constrained by SI's naming conventions. You could use your IM to indicate "history / done / performed" using the words and terms that work for you.

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HTC June 17th Meeting Materials 06/17/25

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Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set – June 2025 Release Now Available 06/16/25

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HTC June 17th Meeting Agenda 06/12/25

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SI – Inactivation of 06/03/25

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SI – Inactivation of 06/03/25

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SI – Inactivation of 06/03/25

Hi Jon, Unfortunately, we are significantly behind in the modernization of our information systems, and we are often constrained by what the vendor is willing to implement and the costs involved. In short, we're doing our best to juggle all these...

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SI – Inactivation of 06/03/25

Hi Elena, I wanted to share some additional considerations here which you may find helpful going forward. In using concepts from the |Situation with explicit context| hierarchy, we are relying on the terminology to indicate contextual informati...

Elena Dei Tigli

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SI – Inactivation of 06/03/25

Hi Julie, Here are 2 concepts : - 165007007 |Allergy testing done (situation)| (test d'allergie effectué) - 435941000124100 |Patient given medical advice (situation)| (avis médical donné au patient) exempt from inactivation Regards,

Elena Dei Tigli

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SI – Inactivation of 06/03/25

Julie Boutin

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SI – Inactivation of 06/03/25

Hi Elena, Thank you for your feedback. SI's plan is to inactivate these concepts because they are ambiguous and they propose to instead create a new concept "history of x" for cases where it is a procedure performed in the past. But there are s...

Elena Dei Tigli

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SI – Inactivation of 06/02/25

Hi, In this section, our unit uses concepts that will be desactivated. Clients or partners do not have an application that allows post-coordination. If these concepts are created under "history of", we are concerned that the essence may be lost in f...

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

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...

Julie Boutin

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

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 the...

Helen Wu

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HTC May 20th Meeting Materials 05/20/25

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 f...

Julie Boutin

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SI – Inactivation of 05/16/25

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

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