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1. Request Requests for change received change received from Canadian implementers from March 20, 2018 to September 14, 2018 - September 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.
   4. 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.
      
      
      
2. Subsets - Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project 
   1. Pan-Canadian SNOMED CT subsets in scope for this maintenance cycle include: Immunization, Communicable Disease
   2. Subsets updated: Immunization subsets, Primary Health Care subsets and the Communicable Disease subsetothers. 
   3. New subset created: HealthConcernCode, InterventionCode, InterventionCodeSubsetOperatingRoomProcedure, ReferralServiceCode, ReferralServiceCodeSubsetService
   No subset inactivated
   
   New in this release
   The CA Edition Refset module contains the filter definition for 13 of the extensional published reference sets. They can be found in
   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).
   
   Note that all reference sets are also published as a simple reference set (enumerated).
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   Issues resolved

   Terminology issues in English Extension

   Added missing Fully Specified name (FSN) and Preferred Synonym (PS) in the Canadian Edition (CA Edition) English Language Refset
   This is impacted 501 concepts. 
   Spelling Mistakes
   105161000087118|Ultrasonography of abdomen and doppler ultrasonography of arteries of bilateral lower extermities| 
   31161000087115|X-ray of bilateral knees and lower extermities for bone length measurement 
   29751000087115|Sentinel lymph node dectected due to clinical suspicion (situation)|
   
3. Inconsistent Fully Specified Name

120160341000087108|Received senior high school (finding)| will be added the word education, to align with the other existing concepts:

424587006|Received childhood special education (finding)|, 473462005|Received early childhood education (finding)|, 473463000|Received elementary school education (finding)|

Terminology issues in French Extension

1. 1. Some corrections were applied to French translation following the analysis of the January 2018 SNOMED International French Starter Set (Informs BSCT-8064):
      1. Typo
      2. Alignment to the Terminologia Anatomica 
      3. Alignment to the FR Guideline for adjectival form preference
      4. Singular vs plural, etc
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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.

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