May 2026 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available!

The May 2026 Canadian Edition (CA Edition) is harmonized with the SNOMED International May 01, 2026, monthly release. Content includes new concepts and https://informs.infoway-inforoute.ca/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=23601 new French translations requested by Canadian stakeholders to support diverse implementation projects across the country.

These Canadian implementation projects and initiatives include  Canadian Medicines Terminology (CMT); Immunization content to support the National Vaccine Catalogue, 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), as well as updates to the organism hierarchy to support provincial Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), and projects from Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS) such as CNESST diagnostics and Feuille sommaire. 

Infoway also releases updated versions of SNOMED CT ValueSets as part of the CA Edition. As part of the recent retirement of CIHI’s Pan-Canadian Primary Health Care EMR Minimum Data Set in April,18 associated ValueSets will be retired as of this release. Please see the Release Notes for more detailed information. 

May 2026 CA Edition of SNOMED CT and all pan-Canadian ValueSets are available on the Infoway Terminology Server. 

Release notes for the CA Edition are available here, 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 in the SNOMED CT Browser. You are invited to access the tool now!

The SNOMED CT CA Edition release is available programmatically or for direct download via the FHIR Terminology Server. Please see the terminology server user access guide for more information. Content is also available for browsing using the Ontoserver Shrimp Browser. See the Shrimp User Guide for guidance.

How to browse terms under development

Canada Health Infoway’s SNOMED CT Canadian Edition Daily Build Browser (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 standards page.