DateOctober 31, 2017
InfoRMS

Scope

AccessTerminology Gateway
Code SystemSNOMED CT
Code System VersionJuly 31, 2017
Release TypeMaintenance

The Canadian Edition package includes one (1) set of files for referencing the English and French CA content and the July 2017 version of SNOMED CT International. This publication format is provided to Canadian stakeholders to facilitate implementation if there is no need to use the Canadian Extension* files separately. The content of this package has been pre-computed and harmonized based on the module dependency when several extensions are merged. 

The package is a zip file that includes text files in the RF2 format as per the SNOMED International specifications. The files provide the three (3) types of releases: full, delta and snapshot. Each type of release file includes refset files and terminology core files.

 

*  The Extension package will be available only upon request. It consists of three (3) different modules and files that can be implemented individually: there is a module for the English CA content, one for the French CA content and one for the References sets that are in scope for the release.

 

Release Scope

  1. Request for change received from Canadian implementers from March to September 2017  - InfoRMS SNOMED CT RFC Project
    1. Requests to add, change or inactivate  content in both English and French 
    2. Corrections to content (typographical errors, metadata, others)  
    3. EN CA concepts promoted to international version of SNOMED CT : 
      1. There is about 350 concepts from Canada, that were accepted in the July 2017 version of SNOMED CT International. Most of them kept the CA conceptID, some did not because they had been already added from other stakeholders. 

  2. Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project
    1. Subsets updated: Immunization subsets, Primary Health Care subsets and the Communicable Disease subset. 
    2. New subset created:  EncounterDischargeDisposition 
    3. Subset inactivated: Prescription-AuthorizationType

  3. Issues resolved
    1. Capitalization of the vaccines trade names concepts
    2. Preferred synonyms that where not appropriately representing the semantic of the concept, were inactivated. 
    3. Case significance changes in the International version that impacted the CA Edition content