From the Fire and Ice seminar on HL7 FHIR and SNOMED CT as pivotal standards for electronic health records and connected health ecosystems

1. SNOMED CT Expo 2016
in New Zealand is Go!
Liara Tutina
Customer Relations Executive APAC
IHTSDO
Email: ltu@ihtsdo.org

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▪ International not-for-profit association
▪ Owned by National Members
▪ Governed by General Assembly of its Members
▪ Management Board elected by General Assembly
▪ Funded by countries based on national wealth (GNI)
▪ A product and service organization
▪ Delivers SNOMED CT
▪ Licensed to registered Affiliates
▪ Free use in Member countries
▪ Low-cost licenses for institutions in other countries
IHTSDO - International Health
Terminology Standards Development Organisation

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IHTSDO Members
Australia
Iceland
Portugal
Belgium
India
Singapore
Brunei
Israel
Slovak
Republic
Canada
Lithuania
Slovenia
Chile
Malaysia
Spain
Czech
Republic
Malta
Sweden
Denmark
The
Netherlands
United
Kingdom
Estonia
New
Zealand
USA
Hong Kong
Poland
Uruguay

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▪ Encourage and assist the convergence towards a family of effective EHR
standards.
▪ Harmony with other recognized standards provides full potential of a National
approach to Electronic Health Records.
▪ WHO
▪ Maps to ICD-O, ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM and ICD-10
▪ IHTSDO and WHO cooperating on development of ICD-11
▪ HL7
▪ Collaboration agreement to encourage use of SNOMED CT in HL7 messages and
documents
▪ LOINC
▪ SNOMED CT and LOINC are being linked together to minimize duplication and
benefit uses of both systems
▪ GMDN
▪ Devices terminology linked to SNOMED CT
▪ CIMI (Clinical Information Modeling Initiative)
▪ Developing common approaches to modelling clinical information bound to
SNOMED CT
▪ ICN (International Council of Nursing)
▪ Joint work linking SNOMED CD and ICNP
IHTSDO Collaboration

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6. SNOMED CT E-Learning Server
▪ elearning.ihtsdotools.org
Information Sheets (www.ihtsdo.org)
▪ Adding Value to the EHR
Other Documentation (www.ihtsdo.org/snomed-ct/learn-more)
▪ SNOMED CT Starter Guide
▪ SNOMED CT Technical Implementation Guide
Exploring SNOMED CT
▪ IHTSDO Browser (browser.ihtsdotools.org)
▪ Other Browsers (www.snomed.org/browsers)
IHTSDO Tools available or under development
▪ http://www.ihtsdotools.org/
Additional Information
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