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DateMarch 31, 2020
InfoRMS

Scope

AccessTerminology Gateway
Code SystemSNOMED CT
Code System VersionMarch 9, 2020
Release TypeMaintenance

The Canadian Edition package includes one (1) set of files for referencing the Canadian English (EN CA), the Canadian French (FR CA), the Canadian reference sets content and the March 2020 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 required. 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 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 Canadian Extension package is available upon request. It consists 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. Request for change received from Canadian implementers from September 6, 2019 to March 6, 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 of SNOMED CT
    4. NOTE: Several requests are "Issues in progress". This means that new concepts were created and were added to the March 2020 Canadian Edition. The same concepts have also been submitted to SNOMED International for core inclusion consideration. If accepted, they will be included in the July 2020 International version release, and will require harmonization with the next September 2020 Canadian Edition.

  2. Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project
    1. Updated subsets: Immunization, Communicable Disease ,Primary Health Care and others
    2. No subsets are inactivated from the Canadian Edition
    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). 
    4. All reference sets are also published as a simple reference set (enumerated).



  3. New in this release
    1. March Release of SNOMED International 
      1. 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.  
      2. 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.
      3. The March Release of SNOMED International Release Note is included in the CA Edition package for the detailed information.
         
    2. French translation
      1. This release include all translated terms from the French common translation produced by the SNOMED International Members 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.

Refer to section 5. Questions and Comments, if you want  to know more about SNOMED CT or if you have comments for us.

Refer to section 6. Requests for Change (RFC), if you need more information on how to request on terminology content or subsets. 

Refer to section 7. Updates and Publications, if you want to be aware of when changes are published.

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