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.

CO-LEADERS

Morgan Barnes, Manager, Data, Digital Governance & Standards, Public Health Ontario
Armaan Gill, Senior Advisor, Terminology Standards, Alberta Health Services

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Helen Wu created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

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

Hi all, The November 2025 Canadian Edition (CA Edition) is harmonized with the SNOMED International November 01, 2025, monthly release. Content includes ..., new French translations, and new concepts requested by Canadian stakeholders to support diverse implementation projects across the country. New concepts and descriptions have been created in this CA Edition to support Canadian implementations, including: ... (CMT), ongoing immunization work; the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework (pCHDCF) and Canadian Core Data for Interoperability (CACDI) ; updates to the organism hierarchy to support provincial Laboratory Information Systems (LIS), other projects from Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS) such as CNESST, Dossier Santé Connecté and Vitrai . Infoway also releases updated versions of SNOMED CT ... as part of the CA Edition. The November 2025 CA Edition of SNOMED CT and all pan-Canadian valuesets are available on the .... Release notes for the CA Edition ... 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 available in the SNOMED CT Browser. You are invited to ...! The SNOMED CT CA Edition release is available programmatically or for direct download via the .... Please see the ... for more information. Content is also available for browsing using the Ontoserver .... See the ... for guidance. How to browse terms under development Canada Health Infoway’s SNOMED CT ... (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 ....

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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

Upcoming Maintenance on the Terminology Service (Dec 4, 17:00 and 18:00 EST)

Hi all, Please be advised that on Thursday, December 4th, between 17:00 and 18:00 EST, Infoway will perform a scheduled maintenance on the ... to migrate production workloads to an updated environment. During this one-hour maintenance period, you may encounter brief service interruptions in ... as we complete the maintenance work. This upgrade is essential to ensure ongoing supportability and to maintain a secure, stable operating environment. Thank you for your understanding as we work to keep our systems current and reliable. If you have any questions, please ....

Helen Wu created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

SNOMED CT Implementation Web Series: Allergy

Hi all, Join us for the first session in a new round of the SNOMED CT Implementation Webinar Series. This introductory webinar will present the Implementation Support Team, introduce the new Implementation Demonstrators, and provide an in-depth look at the SNOMED CT Implementation Guide for Allergy, Hypersensitivity, and Intolerance, along with the associated demonstrator. The session will conclude with an open Q&A to address your implementation questions. When: Dec 8, 2025 (13:00-14:00 UTC) Register here: https://snomed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ns2awAhNQFOVA3rQqVthkA#/registration Thank you!

Morgan Barnes created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

HTC November 18 - Meeting Materials

Hello HTC members, The November 18, 2025, Health Terminologies Community meeting presentation is available here:... A recording of the meeting can be accessed here: ... As a reminder, we’ve started a new Zoom meeting series for the HTC monthly meetings. If you haven’t registered for the new series yet, please do so. Once registered, be sure to remove the previous meeting series from your calendar. If you have any questions related to the November meeting, or suggestions for future meeting topics, please feel free to contact us. Thank you! Morgan

Mary Ho created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set – November 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.

Armaan Gill created a new discussion in Health Terminologies

Join us for our next HTC Monthly Meeting: Nov. 18, 2025, 11:00 to 12:00 (EST)

Upcoming Presentation – Don’t Miss Out! Join us for our next Health Terminologies Community Monthly Meeting Topic: Assessing Terminology Standards Readiness for AI and Interoperability Date & Time: Tuesday, November 18, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm (EST) Presenters: Debbie Onos and Lorilee Lawson Terminology standards are becoming increasingly important as electronic health records and clinical information systems continue to proliferate. At the same time, conversations are brewing around the use of Artificial Intelligence and enabling interoperability. Is the health care system ready for these next steps? Take a journey with us as we explore: Where we are today Why this matters What is needed to move forward ✅ Reminder: Please make sure you register in advance for the new meeting series to stay connected! Registration Link: ... Looking forward to seeing you there!

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November 2025 Release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now available! 12/01/25

Helen Wu

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Upcoming Maintenance on the Terminology Service (Dec 4, 17:00 and 18:00 EST) 11/28/25

Helen Wu

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SNOMED CT Implementation Web Series: Allergy 11/25/25

Morgan Barnes

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HTC November 18 - Meeting Materials 11/20/25

Mary Ho

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Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set – November 2025 Release Now Available 11/14/25

Armaan Gill

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Join us for our next HTC Monthly Meeting: Nov. 18, 2025, 11:00 to 12:00 (EST) 11/13/25

Morgan Barnes

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Register for the New HTC Monthly Meeting Series 11/07/25

Hi everyone, We’ve launched a new Zoom meeting series for the Health Terminologies Community (HTC), starting in November 2025 and continuing through the end of 2026. The HTC monthly meetings will still take place on the third Tuesday of each month...

Janice Spence

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CA baseling ValueSet not present in Ontoserver 10/28/25

Hi John, Correct, the intensional valueset was created and published on the national server for the PCHDCF/ CACDI and by extension will apply to the CA Core + specification and other panCanadian specs where applicable. Therefore, the recommended bin...

Jon Zammit

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CA baseling ValueSet not present in Ontoserver 10/28/25

With the intensional definition from SNOMED, the CIHI proposed value set will automatically pickup all subtypes of 394733009 |Medical Specialty (qualifier value)|, now and in the future. On the other hand, the ... appears to be an enumerated subse...

Anil Patel

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CA baseling ValueSet not present in Ontoserver 10/24/25

Hi Erik, Thanks for flagging this, you’re absolutely right. The PractitionerSpecialty ValueSet hasn’t been migrated from the Terminology Gateway to Ontoserver. This particular ValueSet was jurisdictional (Ontario) in nature, and as such, was not i...

Joanie Harper

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CA baseling ValueSet not present in Ontoserver 10/24/25

Hi Erik, Just a note that the panCanadian recommendation in the PCHDCF is HealthcareProviderSpecialtyCode which is a SNOMED based valueset that does exist on the OntoServer. This value set has been incorporated into the CA-Core+. You can explo...

Erik Uittien

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CA baseling ValueSet not present in Ontoserver 10/24/25

Hello, I was searching for https://fhir.infoway-inforoute.ca/ValueSet/practitionerspecialty on the terminology server, but it looks like it was not transferred from the tgateway to ontoserver. Would it be possible to add it, so that the redirectio...

Helen Wu

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HTC October 21st Meeting Materials 10/21/25

Hello HTC members, The October 21st, 2025, Health Terminologies Community meeting presentation is available here: ... A recording of the meeting can be accessed here: .... If you have any questions related to the meeting, please feel free to...

Debbie Onos

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CIS/HIS Visit Types 10/17/25

Hi Joanie, That is a good question and probably something to clarify as the name of the fields will be different based on the system or vendor. Off the top of my head we have 4 'core' elements that contribute to our raw system data: 1. Encounter...

Joanie Harper

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CIS/HIS Visit Types 10/17/25

Hi Debbie, Could you clarify what you mean by visit type? Is it the type of service being delivered during the visit (diabetes screening), or the manner in which the visit is being conducted (virtual, in-person)? We might not have anything to...

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