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The Systematised NOmenclature MEDicine Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) is the worlds world's most comprehensive clinical reference terminology. it can be used to represent clinically relevant information (terms) consistently as an integral part of producing electronic health information. It improves communication, increases the availability of relevant information, allows for meaning-based retrieval, and real time decision support to more accurate retrospective reporting for research and management. SNOMED CT grows, changes and adapts to meet the needs of the clinician.
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- Consult and comply to the International and Canadian most recent publication of the editorial guidelines before submitting requests;
- Ensure requests are understandable, reusable and useful for Canadian or international use;
- Validate that the content does not already exist in either SNOMED CT International or the Canadian Edition;
- Provide references and other supporting documentation such as clinical papers, clinical reports, use cases, product inserts, etc.;
- All reference material must be publicly available, recent and authoritative, a wiki reference is not deemed suitable;
- Provide a clear justification for the request;
- Provide the use case: how and where content will be used;
- Provide a text definition for new concepts;
- Provide reason for change and date of implementation (this will allow prioritisation prioritization and international core inclusion consideration);
- Provide French translations and supporting reference documentation as required;
- Submit all requests via InfoRMS, taking care to ensure that all of the mandatory fields have been completed;
- Respond to questions related to content submissions in InfoRMS within 60 calendar days (as per the Infoway Policy on Closing Requests for Change Policy) or Infoway/SNOMED International will close the requests.
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