Current Release 1

Release Scope

1. Requests for change received from Canadian implementers from May 3, 2024 to August 2, 2024 - 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. CA EN concepts promoted to the International Edition of SNOMED CT.
   4. In the Release Notes, "Issues in progress" refers to requests that were accepted and added to the most recent Canadian Edition, but they also have been submitted to SNOMED International for consideration for core inclusion. If accepted, they are in scope for inclusion in the International Edition and will be assigned to a release by SNOMED International and will require harmonization with the next CA Edition release.
      
      
      
2. Subsets - InfoRMS Subset RFC Project 
   1. Pan-Canadian SNOMED CT subsets in scope for this maintenance cycle include: Immunization, Communicable Disease, Primary Health Care and others.
   2. 32 SNOMED CT subsets (refsets) are published as extensional refsets in the Canadian Edition (Canada Health Infoway Simple Type Reference Set (foundation metadata concept)).
   3. 24 of 56 subsets are expanded type subsets that are intensionally defined (i.e. defined using queries). These can be found as members of the Simple query specification reference set (foundation metadata concept). See below printscreen.

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Notes for this Release:

1. New vaccine concepts to support the ongoing work for Immunization.
2. Release notes for International releases including the International Edition and the Common French extension are no longer included in the Canadian Edition release package. International release notes can be accessed here and Common French release notes can be accessed here.
3. Inclusion of concepts that originated in other national extensions and were promoted to core because they also meet Canadian requirements and, as such, meet the international use case (lateral promotion).
4. In line with the new implementation of Annotations, two new refsets have been added to the International Edition Release package, from December 2023 onwards:
   der2_scsRefset_ComponentAnnotationStringValueSnapshot_INT_20240101.txt
   der2_sscsRefset_MemberAnnotationStringValueSnapshot_INT_20240101.txt
   The addition of content for the Annotations refset was commenced in the July 2024 International Edition release and is ongoing for attribution of text definition to organizations with a collaboration agreement, starting with Inserm Orphanet. For more information on this, please see the International Release Notes and the SNOMED CT Annotation page and related links.
5. French translation to support Canadian implementations, including: ongoing immunization work; the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) pan-Canadian Health Data Content Framework (pCHDCF) and Primary Health Care projects; Ontario Health’s Lab Information System (OLIS), Cardiology requests for Clinical Support Systems; other projects from Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux du Québec (MSSS) such as CNESST, CISSSMO, PTI and Synoptic colonoscopy report.

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.