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1. Request Requests for change received from Canadian implementers from September 6, 2019 to March 6from March 7, 2020 to September 4, 2020 -   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. EN CA concepts promoted to international version the International Edition of SNOMED CT
   4. NOTE: Several requests are In the Release Notes the "Issues in progress" . This means that new concepts requests were created accepted and were added to the March 2020 most recent Canadian Edition. The same concepts have also , but they also have been submitted to SNOMED International for consideration for core inclusion consideration. If When they will be accepted, they will be included in the July 2020 International the January 2021 International version release, and will require harmonization with the next September 2020 the March 2021 Canadian Edition.
      
      
2. Subsets -   InfoRMS Subset RFC Project 
   1. Updated subsets: Immunization, Communicable Disease, Primary Health Care and others
   2. No subsets are subsets were inactivated from the Canadian Edition for the September 2020 release
   3. The Canadian Edition Refset module contains the filter definition for 14 of the extensional published reference sets. They can be found in the Simple query specification reference set (foundation metadata concept). See below printscreen. 
   4. All reference sets are also published as a simple reference set (enumerated).
      
      
      
      
3. New in this release
    
   1. Release notes for the July 2020 International Edition are included in this March Release of SNOMED International 
   2. In cases where a global emergency persists and warrants action, for example SARS in 2013 and the current COVID-19 situation, SNOMED International has taken steps to issue an interim release of the SNOMED CT International Edition to serve a public good.  With this release, clinicians, researchers and administrators globally are able to code, analyze and plan to address the Coronavirus effort with the most up to date terminology.  
   3. The March Release of SNOMED International 2020 is an interim release that contains relevant COVID-19 concepts including any applicable changes to descriptions: 24 records have been added, plus core concept descriptions.
   The March Release of SNOMED International Release Note is included in the CA Edition package for the detailed information. 
   4. French translation

1. 1. 1. This release include includes all translated terms from the French common translation produced by the SNOMED International Members BelgiumMember Countries Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Luxemburg, by the Affiliate Phast, as well as the “French Starter Set” produced by the Swiss Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève on behalf of SNOMED International. 

         1. This first release of the common French translation of SNOMED CT has an effective time of 2020310. 

         2. It includes translation of

            all

            COVID-19 related concepts.

         3. At this point, the common French translation of SNOMED CT is not distributed by SNOMED International. It may be published as part of a national edition of any of the Members involved in the production of this translation.

         4. The SNOMED CT Common French Translation Release Note is included in the CA Edition package for the detailed information.
            
            

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