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DateApril 30, 2018
InfoRMS

Scope

AccessTerminology Gateway
Code SystemSNOMED CT
Code System VersionJanuary 31, 2018
Release TypeMaintenance

The Canadian Edition package includes one (1) set of files for referencing the Canadian English (EN CA), French (FR CA) and reference sets content and the January 2018 version of SNOMED CT International. This publication format is provided to Canadian stakeholders to facilitate implementation if there is no need to use the Canadian Extension* files separately. The content of this package has 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 specifications. The files provide the three (3) types of releases: full, delta and snapshot. Each type of release file includes refset files and terminology core files.

 

*  The Extension package will be available only upon request. It consists of three (3) different modules and files that can be implemented individually: there is a module for the EN CA content, one for the FR CA content and one for the References sets that are in scope for the release.

Release Scope

  1. Request for change received from Canadian implementers from September 2017 to March 2018 - InfoRMS SNOMED CT RFC Project
    1. Requests to add, change or inactivate  content in both English and French 
    2. Corrections to content (typographical errors, metadata, others)  
    3. EN CA concepts promoted to international version of SNOMED CT : 
      1. 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. 

  2. Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project
    1. Subsets updated: Immunization subsets, Primary Health Care subsets and the Communicable Disease subset. 
    2. New subset created: Refer to the Current Release Notes
    3. Subset inactivated: Refer to the Curent Release Notes

  3. Issues resolved
    1. Inactivated all Canadian Diagnostic Imaging Abbreviation to decrease the number of Canadian Edition descriptions and rely on the international descriptions instead

    2. 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

Refer to the Requests for Change (RFC), if you need more information on how to request on terminology content or subsets. 

Refer to the Questions and Comments, if you want yo know more about SNOMED CT or if you have comments for us.

Refer to the Updates and Publications, if you want to be aware of when changes are published.

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