March 2021 release of the 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 latest release aligns with the SNOMED International January 2021 release.

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 eOrder application project in Newfoundland, the Ontario Lab Information System, the Manitoba Public Health Information Management System, MendMD and Agie tot, SIL and SI GMI (Quebec).

The Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT includes all translated terms from the SNOMED CT Common French Translation Extension, with translation done by Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada, and PHAST (France).

The Canadian Edition package is available from the Terminology Gateway . You can also visit SNOMED International’s SNOMED CT Browser to view the Canadian Edition content and subsets.

For the human-readable and computable formats of Canadian subsets using SNOMED CT, please visit Infoway’s Terminology Gateway , which enables browsing, accessing, downloading of subsets for ease of reference and use.