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1. Requests for change received change received from Canadian implementers from March 6from September 4, 2021 to September 3March 4, 2021 2022  - InfoRMS SNOMED CT RFC Project
   1. Requests to add, change or inactivate content in both English and French. 
   2. Content corrections (typographical errors, metadata, others).  
   3. CA EN CA concepts promoted to the International Edition International Edition of SNOMED CT.
   4. NOTE: In the Release Notes the , "Issues in progress" means refers to requests that requests were accepted and added to the most recent Canadian Edition, but they also have been submitted to SNOMED International for consideration for core inclusion. If accepted, they are in scope for inclusion in the January 2022 International version release the International Edition and will be assigned to a release by SNOMED International, and will require harmonization with the March 2022 the next CA Edition release.
      
      
      
2. Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project 
   1. This release contains three new subsets created for use by Canadian implementers: IndigenousIdentitiyCode, RacializedGroupCode and VisitModalityCode.
   2. Pan-Canadian SNOMED CT subsets in scope for this maintenance cycle include
   3. Updated subsets: Immunization,  Communicable Disease, Primary Health Care and others.
   4. 13 of 41 extensional published All 41 SNOMED CT subsets (refsets) are published as extensional refsets in the Canadian Edition (Canada Health Infoway Simple Type Reference Set (foundation metadata concept)).
   5. 13 of 41 resets are intensionally defined . They (i.e. defined using queries). These can be found as members of the simple Simple query specification reference set (foundation metadata concept). See below printscreen. All reference sets are also published as a simple reference set (enumerated).

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New in this release:

1. New vaccine concepts to support the ongoing COVID-19 response. Inclusion of international COVID-19 vaccine products that are not marketed in Canada to support international immunization records.
2. Release notes for International releases including the July 2021 International Edition and the Common French extension are no longer included in this CA the Canadian Edition release package for detailed information.
3. Concrete domains for vaccine content:
   1. All tradename vaccines that had the attribute 766952006 | Count of base of active ingredient(attribute) associated with a number as a concept, was inactivated and replaced by 1142139005|Count of base of active ingredient (attribute) and a value that is a concrete domain number.
   2. All tradename vaccines that had the attribute 766953001 |Count of active ingredient (attribute) associated with a number as a concept, was inactivated and replaced by 1142140007Count of active ingredient (attribute) and a value that is a concrete domain number.
New attributes for vaccines:
4. The Canadian concept 27821000087106 |Product target population (qualifier value)| has been inactivated and replaced by an international concept: 1149367008 |Has target population (attribute)|
The strength expressed in the Flu vaccines as low, high or standard dose are now defined using 1149366004 |Has ingredient qualitative strength (attribute)|, instead of 860779006 |Has ingredient characteristic (attribute)|. International release notes can be accessed here.
5. Inclusion of concepts that originated in other national extensions and were promoted to core because they also meet Canadian requirements and, as such, meet the international use case (lateral promotion).
6. French translation of vaccine content, findings, organisms, specimens, body structures, and content related to the CIHI HHR MDS and ODT programs:
   1. The Canadian Edition includes new .This release includes all translated terms from the French common translation produced by the SNOMED International Member Countries Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Luxemburg, by the Affiliate PHAST.It includes translation of COVID-19 related concepts.
   2. It includes the Common French extension which is composed of all descriptions translated by French speaking member countries engaged in the International French Translation Collaboration.
   3. The Common French extension The common French translation of SNOMED CT is now available on the Community Content Page published by SNOMED International. It and may be published as part of a national edition of any of the Members member countries involved in the production of this translation.
   4. The SNOMED SNOMED CT Common French Translation Release Note is included in the CA Edition package for the detailed informationExtension release notes can be accessed here.

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