New SNOMED CT COVID-19 Tradename codes now available!

Please find below the new SNOMED CT COVID-19 codes.
They are in scope for the March 2021 CA Edition, and can be pre-adopted as needed. Don’t hesitate to share this notification with anyone that is not a member of this Forum.

NOTE that the descriptions are draft as we currently do not have all of the information to make these final.
If you attended the last CVC meetings, some adjustments were done as follows. The changes made are:

• FSN : lower case for Ribonucleic Acid, dose form, no diluent, added Pzifer as part of the manufacturer/MAH, semantic tag
• PT : manufacturer/MAH abbreviation

ConceptID: 28581000087106

• FSN: PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid 30 micrograms per 0.3 milliliter suspension for dilution for injection Pfizer Canada ULC-BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH (real clinical drug)
• PT: COVID-19 PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 mRNA PB
• Synonym: PFIZER-BIONTECH COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid 30 micrograms per 0.3 milliliter suspension for dilution for injection Pfizer Canada ULC-BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH

ConceptID: 28571000087109

• FSN: MODERNA COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid-1273 100 micrograms per 0.5 milliliter liquid for injection Moderna Therapeutics Inc. (real clinical drug)
• PT: COVID-19 MODERNA COVID-19 mRNA-1273 MT
• Synonym: MODERNA COVID-19 messenger ribonucleic acid-1273 100 micrograms per 0.5 milliliter liquid for injection Moderna Therapeutics Inc.

More information can be found on the Infoway Standards Resources for COVID-19.

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