September 2021 Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available

Infoway’s bi-annual release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT® (English and French) is now available.

This Canadian release is based on the July 31, 2021 International Edition and includes COVID-19 vaccine related concepts, an assortment of French Canadian and French global terms produced by member countries Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Luxemburg, and affiliates PHAST (France), many new organisms.

New concepts and descriptions have been created to support Canadian implementations, including CANImmunize and ongoing immunization work, the Canadian Institute for Health Information value sets, the Ontario Lab Information System, Agir tôt, SIL and SI GMI (Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec).

As part of our annual Subset review and maintenance cycle, Infoway is also releasing updated versions of 41 subsets.

Release notes for the CA Edition are available on InfoScribe along with general editorial guidelines for making change requests in the Canadian context.

The Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT and all pan-Canadian Subsets are available on the Terminology Gateway.