Release Scope
- Request for change received from Canadian implementers from September 2017 to March March 20, 2018 to September 14, 2018 - InfoRMS SNOMED CT RFC Project
- Requests to add, change or inactivate content in both English and French
- Corrections to content (typographical errors, metadata, others)
- EN CA concepts promoted to international version 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
- Subsets updated: Immunization subsets, Primary Health Care subsets and the Communicable Disease subset.
- New subset created: Refer to the Current Release NotesSubset inactivated: Refer to the Curent Release Notes
- Issues resolved
- Inactivated all Canadian Diagnostic Imaging Abbreviation to decrease the number of Canadian Edition descriptions and rely on the international descriptions instead
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
- 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 the Simple query specification reference set (foundation metadata concept).
Note that all reference sets are also published as a simple reference set (enumerated). - 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)| - Inconsistent Fully Specified Name
- Added missing Fully Specified name (FSN) and Preferred Synonym (PS) in the Canadian Edition (CA Edition) English Language Refset
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
- Some corrections were applied to French translation following the analysis of the January 2018 SNOMED International French Starter Set (Informs BSCT-8064):
- Typo
- Alignment to the Terminologia Anatomica
- Alignment to the FR Guideline for adjectival form preference
- Singular vs plural, etc
- Some corrections were applied to French translation following the analysis of the January 2018 SNOMED International French Starter Set (Informs BSCT-8064):
Refer to section 6. Refer to the Requests for Change (RFC), if you need more information on how to request on terminology content or subsets.
Refer to the section Questions and Comments, if you want yo know more about SNOMED CT or if you have comments for us.
Refer to the section Updates and Publications, if you want to be aware of when changes are published.