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The Canadian Edition is released in March and September * (Subset to change) each year. The Canadian release and supporting documentation can be found on InfoCentral.

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• Consult and comply to the International and Canadian most recent publication of the editorial guidelines before submitting requests;
• Ensure requests are understandable, reusable and useful for Canadian or international use;
• Validate that the content does not already exist in either SNOMED CT International or the Canadian Edition;
• Provide references and other supporting documentation such as clinical papers, clinical reports, use cases, product inserts, etc.;
  • All reference material must be publicly available, recent and authoritative, a wiki reference is not deemed suitable;
• Provide a clear justification for the request;
• Provide the use case: how and where content will be used;
• Provide a text definition for new concepts;
• Provide reason for change and date of implementation (this will allow prioritisation and international core inclusion consideration);
• Provide French translations and supporting reference documentation as required;
• Submit all requests via InfoRMS, taking care to ensure that all of the mandatory fields have been completed;
• Respond to questions related to content submissions in InfoRMS within 60 calendar days [1] or (As per the Infoway Policy on Closing Requests for Change Policy) or Infoway/SNOMED International will close the requests.

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Note that requests for local terms will not be added to either the International or Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT.  These terms must be authored and maintained locally.  If a local namespace is required, it can be requested directly from the SNOMED International. 

Infoway will:

• Provide the submitter with the concept identifier and the descriptions when the concept is authored in the Canadian Edition;
• Send SNOMED International the requests that are candidates for international inclusion;
• Inform the submitter of the status of the SNOMED International requests.

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French Translation

French descriptions can be added to concepts existing in the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT or to international concepts. Proper supporting reference documentation must be provided to Infoway for French and English requests. 

 SNOMED SNOMED CT Release Format and Availability

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Support for the mapping of local codes to SNOMED CT International and the Canadian Edition is made available via Apelon’s mapping solutions: TermWorks excel-based terminology mapping tool and TermManager web-based terminology mapping tool.  TermWorks and TermManager are updated as new release files are made available from Apelon.

Release Schedule

• SNOMED CT International is published on January 31 and July 31 of each calendar year.
• The Canadian Edition is released March and September of each calendar year.  This is done to allow Infoway time to align any changes in the core release with content in the Canadian Edition.  

Definitions

Canadian Edition: The Canadian edition combines both the Canadian extension and the International release of SNOMED CT into one harmonized computable file.

Canadian Extensions: The Canadian extension contains three (3) distinct modules: the French extension, the English Extension, and the Reference Sets (Refsets) extension. The modules are dependent on the latest International version of SNOMED CT.

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