SNOMED Reference Tenth Revision Canada

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of the structure of a project about the adoption of clinical information systems on patients’ safety in the Canadian context for the Minister of Health. A report on patient safety at an international panel suggested that adoption of standard classification systems in healthcare could significantly improve patients’ safety through leveraging the healthcare data to conduct quality improvement initiatives. The health information manager (HIM) and Standards Branch at the Ministry of Health were tasked to develop a project of introducing the use of International Classification of Diseases and Health Related Problems Tenth Revision, Canada (ICD-10-CA) and Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine

Major expansion and updates occurred over the years until SNOMED became SNOMED International 3.5 in 1998, and began a harmonization project to merger SNOMED Reference Terminology with CTV3. In 2000, CAP in collaboration with Kaiser Permanente created a logic-based version of SNOMED international called SNOMED Reference Terminology (SNOMED RT). By 2002, the merger project was completed and SNOMED RT merged with CTV3 became what is known as SNOMED CT and the first version was

The Canadian version of SNOMED-CT updates are released April 30th and October 31st of each year; these updates provide stability to the SNOMED-CT contents in order to ensure that the terminology retains its meaning and allows for interoperability of the electronic health record system. The integrity of SNOMED-CT clinical knowledge for priority Use Cases, Data Aggregation Reporting and Clinical Decision Support are also