January 2022 SNOMED CT International Edition is now available

4 February, 2022

'SNOMED International determines global standards for health terms, an essential part of improving the health of humankind. We are committed to maintaining and growing our leadership as the global experts in healthcare terminology, ensuring that SNOMED CT, our world leading product, is accepted as the global common language for clinical terms.' https://www.snomed.org/

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Jan 31, 2022

The Production Release of the January 2022 SNOMED CT® International Edition is now available.

What’s new?

The January 31, 2022 release contains 4,438 new concepts and 1,143 inactivations within SNOMED CT’s 350,000+ concepts. It delivers on SNOMED International’s commitment to make SNOMED CT richer, more precise and more useful to its global users by improving the structural quality of the clinical terminology on an ongoing basis.

Release highlights

Continuous quality improvement and enhancement of existing content is an ongoing process undertaken by SNOMED International in preparation for every release. The January 2022 International Release has seen a continuation of the work driven by contributions from Kaiser Permanente's Convergent Medical Terminology, Global Medical Device Nomenclature Agency, Orphanet and other domain specific collaborations as well as content requests received. The January 31 2022 release contains additions and changes across many hierarchies including, but not limited to, body structure, clinical findings, procedures, pharmaceutical and biologic products and substances, as well as COVID-19 specific content.

To support the ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic, the January 2022 release delivers new COVID-19 related component changes and all the resources provided in the previous year’s releases...

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Neil Pakenham-Walsh, HIFA Coordinator, neil@hifa.org www.hifa.org