Health Terminologies

Please join us for our monthly HTC meeting next week. The June meeting will feature a presentation from Jennine Roberts at eHealth Saskatchewan on the Saskatchewan Laboratory Result Repository. Date & Time: Tuesday, June 16, 11AM–12PM ET Agenda: • Welcome • Terminology updates • Recent and upcoming events • Presentation: Saskatchewan Laboratory Result Repository • Open discussion As a reminder, you will need to register for the Zoom series to join the meeting, if you haven’t already. Looking forward to seeing you next week. Thanks, Morgan & Armaan

Hi everyone, Canada Health Infoway is proud to announce a significant milestone in Canadian health terminology infrastructure: the successful completion of the initial scope of the Canadian SNOMED CT Drug Extension, encompassing all Health Canada DIN-based drug products marketed since October 2022. This achievement places Canada among a growing number of countries developing national SNOMED CT drug-extension capabilities, laying the groundwork for enhanced medication terminology interoperability across jurisdictions, vendors, and clinical systems. Developed in close collaboration with jurisdictional and vendor partners and with Santé Québec's UCNI playing a foundational role, the extension reflects a truly pan-Canadian effort. It includes 45,000 SNOMED CT concepts and 14,859 DIN-based drug products. The initiative now transitions into a structured maintenance phase focused on targeted content improvements, implementation support, and broader scope discussions. The Canadian SNOMED CT Drug Extension complements existing medication terminology infrastructure, including Health Canada’s Canadian Clinical Drug Data Set (CCDD), which continues to be published and supported by Canada Health Infoway. Importantly, this extension is designed to support a wide range of clinical and operational use cases across the medication lifecycle. Beyond prescribing, it enables standardized data for medication administration, dispensing workflows, pharmacovigilance and safety monitoring, as well as inventory and supply chain management. This breadth of application is key to advancing consistent, high-quality medication data across care settings. The extension is fully available in English and French, representing a significant achievement in ensuring accessibility and usability across Canada’s diverse healthcare environments. The Canadian SNOMED CT Drug Extension represents a strategic investment in Canada's long-term health information infrastructure. It establishes a scalable, internationally aligned medication terminology foundation designed to enable stronger semantic interoperability, improved medication data exchange, and deeper integration with SNOMED CT-based clinical systems nationwide. For more information or questions, please .... Thank you,

This issue has been resolved and the May Release of the SNOMED CT Canadian Edition is now accessible in the international browser. Thank you!

Dear SNOMED CT Users, We would like to inform you that there is currently a technical issue impacting access to the May 2026 SNOMED CT Canadian Edition in the .... Our team is actively working with the SNOMED International technical team to resolve this issue as soon as possible. In the meantime, we recommend using the Terminology Server ... or the ..., which has all content available. We appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to fix this. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to ... Best regards, Canadian Standards Release Centre

Hello, We are pleased to announce that the 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 new French translations requested by Canadian stakeholders to support diverse implementation projects across the country. These Canadian implementation projects and initiatives include ... (CMT); Immunization content to support the ...,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 ... for more detailed information. The May 2026 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 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 Shrimp Browser. 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 ...

A reminder to LOINC and pCLOCD Terminology implementers to complete the survey regarding future pCLOCD release cadence considerations in response to LOINC’s planned transition to monthly releases beginning in March 2027. Your feedback is important and will help inform national planning efforts and better understand implementation readiness, operational impacts, and change management considerations within the Canadian context. Please complete the survey by June 2, 2026. The survey is available in English and French using the language selector found at the top right of survey. Survey link: https://forms.office.com/r/v51qYeuyte Thank you to those who have already participated. Your continued collaboration and input are greatly appreciated.