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Immunization RefSets Specific Release Notes
Release Scope
Scope
- Included in this release:
i. Request to add, change or inactivate content in both English and French received from Canadian implementers from September 2016 to March 2017.
ii.- Request for change received from Canadian implementers from March to September 2017 - InfoRMS SNOMED CT RFC Project
- Requests to add, change or inactivate content in both English and French
- Corrections to content (typographical errors, metadata, others)
iii. Authoring of all French descriptions
- Included in this release:
- SNOMED CT® Immunization Subsets Terminology Release - Release Notes
- Updated Immunization subsets (7) :
- AntigenCode
- ImmunoglobulinCode
- PassiveAdministeredImmunizingAgentCode
- PassiveHistoricalImmunizingAgentCode
- VaccineAdministeredTradeNameCode
- VaccineHistoricalNameCode
- VaccinePreventableDiseaseCod
Publication
- Human readable version
The human readable individual Immunization subsets are loaded to the Terminology Gateway. This allows Canadian stakeholders to navigate the updated subsets, get a delta (change logs) from the previous version and export the subset content in different format.
- Release format 2 (RF2) version
The machine readable subsets are included in the RF2 CA Extension release files. For more information on the CA Extension please refer to the SNOMED CT® English and French Canadian Edition and Extensions Release Notes, Version: 20170430.
Note: This document is embedded in the Canadian Extension/Edition package published on the Terminology Gateway.
Canadian Editorial Guidelines
Infoway has developed generic and immunization specific editorial guidelines. These editorial guidelines follow the SNOMED International’s editorial guidance as the baseline, but additional specifications are provided to avoid ambiguity and reflect Canadian specific requirements.
Implementers are encouraged to review the Canadian editorial guidelines before submitting a request for a new concept or a change to an existing concept. Refer to section Questions, Concerns, Changes, Corrections, for more information on Requests for Change (RFC).
Implementing This Release
Communicable Disease
- EN CA concepts promoted to international version of SNOMED CT :
- 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.
- 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.
- Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project
- Subsets updated: Immunization subsets, Primary Health Care subsets and the Communicable Disease subset.
- New subset created: EncounterDischargeDisposition
- Subset inactivated: Prescription-AuthorizationType
- Issues resolved
- Capitalization of the vaccines trade names concepts
- Preferred synonyms that where not appropriately representing the semantic of the concept, were inactivated.
- Case significance changes in the International version that impacted the CA Edition content