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Release Scope

1. Request Requests for change received change received from Canadian implementers from September 2017 to March 2018 - 2, 2023 to February 2, 2024 - InfoRMS SNOMED CT RFC Project
   1. Requests to add, change or inactivate  content content in both English and French French. 
   2. Content corrections Corrections to content (typographical errors, metadata, others)  .  
   3. CA EN CA concepts promoted to international version the International Edition of SNOMED CT : There are about 300 concepts from Canada, that were accepted in the January 2018 version of SNOMED CT International. Most of them kept the CA conceptID, some did not because they had been previously accepted from other stakeholders. 
      
   Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project
2. Subsets updated: Immunization subsets, Primary Health Care subsets and the Communicable Disease subset. 
3. New subset created: Refer to the Current Release Notes
Subset inactivated: Refer to the Curent Release Notes

4. Issues resolved
   1. Inactivated all Canadian Diagnostic Imaging Abbreviation to decrease the number of Canadian Edition descriptions and rely on the international descriptions instead

   2. Inactivated all Ontario local terms because these have not been implemented by other Jurisdictions in Canada therefore they do not qualify as  pan-Canadian terms

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   2. In the Release Notes, "Issues in progress" refers to requests that 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 International Edition and will be assigned to a release by SNOMED International and will require harmonization with the next CA Edition release.
      
      
      
6. Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project 
   1. Pan-Canadian SNOMED CT subsets in scope for this maintenance cycle include: Immunization, Communicable Disease, Primary Health Care and others.
   2. 29 SNOMED CT subsets (refsets) are published as extensional refsets in the Canadian Edition (Canada Health Infoway Simple Type Reference Set (foundation metadata concept)).
   3. 23 of 52 subsets are expanded type subsets that are intensionally defined (i.e. defined using queries). These can be found as members of the Simple query specification reference set (foundation metadata concept). See below printscreen.

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Notes for this Release:

1. New vaccine concepts to support the ongoing work for Immunization.
2. Release notes for International releases including the International Edition and the Common French extension are no longer included in the Canadian Edition release package. International release notes can be accessed here and Common French release notes can be accessed here.
3. 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).
4. Two (2) new subsets were created to support the new National Vaccine Catalogue (NVC).
5. In line with the new implementation of Annotations, two new refsets have been added to the International Edition Release package, from December 2023 onwards:
   der2_scsRefset_ComponentAnnotationStringValueSnapshot_INT_20240101.txt
   der2_sscsRefset_MemberAnnotationStringValueSnapshot_INT_20240101.txt
   These refset files are empty for the February 2024 release, whilst content is authored in future editing cycles. However, they will then be populated with Annotations data from one of the future 2024 International Edition releases onwards (date to be confirmed). These improvements were introduced in the December 2023 International Edition release, and will be used in all future International Edition releases until further notice.
6. French translation to support Canadian implementations, including: ongoing immunization work; the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework (pCHDCF) and Primary Health Care projects; Ontario Health’s Lab Information System (OLIS) and Provincial Health Service Directory (PHSD); other projects from Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS) such as CNESST, CISSSMO, PTI and Synoptic colonoscopy report.

Refer to section 5. Questions and Comments, for additional information about SNOMED CT or if you have comments.

Refer to section 6. Requests for Change (RFC), for additional information on how to request Refer to the Requests for Change (RFC), if you need more information on how to request on terminology content or subsets. 

Refer to the Questions and Comments, if you want yo know more about SNOMED CT or if you have comments for us.Refer to the section 7. Updates and Publications, if you want to be aware of when changes are published for dates and times related to publication.