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DateSeptember 30March 31, 20202021
InfoRMS

Scope

AccessTerminology Gateway
Code SystemSNOMED CT CA
Code System VersionSeptember 30March 31, 20202021
Release TypeMaintenance

The SNOMED CT® Canadian Edition package includes one (1) set of files for referencing the Canadian English (EN CA), Canadian French (CA FR), Canadian refsets, and the July 2020 January 2021 version of SNOMED CT International. This publication format is provided as a convenient package to Canadian stakeholders to facilitate implementation if separate Canadian extension* files are not requiredAll descriptions translated in French from the Common French Extension are also part of the Canadian Edition. Package contents have been pre-computed and harmonized based on the module dependency when several extensions are merged. 

The package is a .zip file that includes text files in the RF2 format as per the SNOMED International specification. The CA Edition contains three (3) release types: full, delta and snapshot. Each type of release file includes refset reference set files and terminology core files.

 

*  Canadian extension files are available upon request, and consist of separate modules and files that can be implemented individually: one for the EN CA content and the references sets, and one for the FR CA content. 

Release Scope

  1. Requests for change received from Canadian implementers from March 7from September 5, 2020 to September 4to March 5, 2020 2021 - InfoRMS SNOMED CT RFC Project
    1. Requests to add, change or inactivate content in both English and French French. 
    2. Content corrections (typographical errors, metadata, others)  .  
    3. EN CA concepts promoted to the International Edition of SNOMED CT.
    4. NOTE: In the Release Notes the "Issues in progress" means that requests were accepted and added to the most recent Canadian Edition, but they also have been submitted to SNOMED International for consideration for core inclusion. When they will be If accepted, they will be included in the January July 2021 International version release, and will require harmonization with the March the September 2021 Canadian Edition.

  2. Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project 
    1. Updated subsets: Immunization, Communicable Disease, Primary Health Care and others
    2. No subsets were inactivated from the Canadian Edition for the September 2020 release
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    4. 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. 
    5. All reference sets are also published as a simple reference set (enumerated).
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    1. Release notes for the July 2020 January 2021 International Edition are included in this CA Edition package for the detailed information.
    2. French translation.
      1. This release includes all translated terms from the French common translation produced by the SNOMED International Member 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. It includes translation of COVID-19 related concepts.

        2. At this point, the The common French translation of SNOMED CT is not distributed now available on the Community Content Page published 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.

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

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 terminology content or subsets. 

Refer to section 7. Updates and Publications, for dates and times related to publication.