2023 SNOMED International Products and Services Catalog

Products & Services Catalog

SNOMED International

About this catalog

The 2023 SNOMED International Products & Services Catalog outlines all of our products and services in an easy-to-navigate format.

We have also identified the most common types of users of this catalog and highlighted the items that would be of most interest to them.

About SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive, multilingual, clinical health terminology in the world, containing over 350,000 active concepts. Developed for clinicians by clinicians, SNOMED CT is an integral part of many countries’ digital health strategies and is maintained and quality assured to a high standard.

SNOMED CT is:

• the most comprehensive, multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world

• a resource with comprehensive, scientifically validated clinical content

• a product that enables consistent representation of clinical content in electronic health records

• mapped to other international standards

• used in more than eighty countries

snomed.org/snomed-ct/five-step-briefing

Adoption Goals

SNOMED CT Adoption & Consumption

Increase adoption and consumption of SNOMED CT for Members, suppliers, researchers and other SNOMED CT users by ensuring it is pragmatic, effective and verifiable.

SNOMED CT Implementation Support

Provide sustainable and approachable products and services to support the implementation of SNOMED CT.

Innovation Goal

Emerging Technologies

Leverage emerging technologies (e.g. Artificial Intelligence) to deliver value for stakeholders and drive efficiencies both at the point of care, across the organisation and the evolution of the product.

Members

• National licensing of SNOMED CT allows Members to ensure that high quality clinical information is available to all stakeholders.

• SNOMED CT enables broad use of information, including in health system management, clinical program management, public health and research.

• Richness of the information allows for proactive management of resources in the delivery of healthcare.

• Terminology use benefits the entire health system – savings of approximately 5% of total healthcare costs.

Policy Makers

• SNOMED CT accelerates the data analysis and decision-making process for Policy Makers so that patient outcomes and health system value can be improved.

• SNOMED CT allows Policy Makers to be more informed and accelerate policy and management decisions.

Patients & Citizens

• SNOMED CT helps patients and citizens achieve better health by being more knowledgeable about their health and their self-care options.

• Through an informed and collaborative decision-making relationship with their Care Providers, Patients and Citizens can also select the best options for care.

Collaboration Partners

• Collaboration Partners contribute their bestin-class clinical knowledge to ensure that SNOMED CT maintains its clinical integrity.

• Collaboration Partners, such as Professional associations and standards organizations, contribute their artefacts so that together with SNOMED CT, they can create one language of health.

Care Providers

• Developed by clinicians, SNOMED CT helps Care Providers access a comprehensive source of high-quality patient information and evidence to improve patient outcomes.

• When embedded in clinical information systems with point-of-care and population analytics, SNOMED CT enhances the quality and timeliness of the clinical data that is available to Care Providers to make patient care decisions.

Implementers

• For Implementers, SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive, scientifically validated, health care terminology available globally, allowing them to collect data once and reuse it for a diverse range of clinical, analytical and research purposes.

• SNOMED CT enables Implementers to support the information needs of a variety of stakeholders, including care providers, policymakers, patients/ citizens and others.

• Using SNOMED CT, Care Providers can more easily share clinical information with both the extended healthcare team and patients, both locally and across borders.

Researchers & Knowledge Producers

• Leveraging the unique power of clinical concepts and defining relationships, SNOMED CT helps Researchers and Knowledge Producers integrate other classification schemes and quickly create data, information, evidence, and knowledge.

Vendors

• SNOMED CT helps Vendors to sell their products using a global standard that is deployed in over 80 countries, and open up new markets for their software products.

• It can be implemented once and marketed on a global scale.

• SNOMED CT enables Vendors to implement a stable, multi-lingual, quality-assured, clinical terminology with a consistent release cycle.

• SNOMED CT allows Researchers and Knowledge Producers to create ‘a one language of health’ and accelerate data, information, evidence and knowledge creation.

• SNOMED CT supports Researchers and Producers in a wide range of analytics and research activities to benefit the decisionmaking of policymakers, care providers, patients/citizens and other health care stakeholders.

Our Products & Services

Benefits: Allows for consistent, up-to-date use and analysis of data internationally

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers

* A license is required to use SNOMED CT.

Benefits: Allows for consistent use and analysis of data internationally

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Administrators, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers snomed.org/snomed-ct/get-snomed

* A license is required to use SNOMED CT.

Benefits:

Potential

SNOMED International provides content development, authoring and clinical quality assurance services for the International Release of SNOMED CT. In addition, our content services include the maintenance of key mappings with other standards and terminologies.

Mapping

One way and bi-directional maps from SNOMED CT to external classifications and terminologies include but are not limited to: ICD-10, ICD-11 MMS, ICD-O, GMDN, Orphanet and MedDRA as well as SNOMED CT observables and expressions mapped to LOINC

Benefits: Allows for interoperability between various terminologies and standards

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

snomed.org/snomed-ct/ Use-SNOMED-CT/maps

Content Development

Recent examples of content enhancements include: Anatomic and molecular pathology, Drugs, Dysphagia, Epilepsy, International Classification of Nursing Practice, and Orphanet rare diseases

Benefits: Produces terminology that is concise and detailed to meet the requirements of priority content requested by our members

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

snomed.org/snomed-ct/sct-worldwide

SNOMED CT Products & Services

Content

Subset Development

Development of subsets of SNOMED CT based on use case

Benefits: Enables easier implementation of clinical specialty-focused content. Supports standards interoperability

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Care Providers, Implementers

snomed.org/snomed-ct/sct-worldwide

Global Patient Set (GPS)

A managed collection of existing SNOMED CT reference sets released by SNOMED International. The GPS is comprised of unique identifiers, fully specified names, preferred terms in international English, and active/inactive status flags

Benefits: Provides a starting point for migration to the use of SNOMED CT, allows for managed exposure and use of SNOMED CT without requiring initial investment

Potential Customers: Implementers, Vendors

snomed.org/snomed-international/ learn-more/global-patient-set

Delivered By SNOMED International

International Patient Summary (IPS) Terminology

An open product that can be used in healthcare solutions using the power of SNOMED CT through its query language and hierarchies for the specified scope

Benefits: Allows for more effective use of clinical data analytics and decision support, and for artificial intelligence applications.

Potential Customers: Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

snomed.org/snomed-ct/Other-SNOMED-products/ international-patient-summary-terminology

Products & Services

Implementation Support

SNOMED CT Implementation Support Portal

A portal which offers a collection of resources and services to help you with your successful SNOMED CT implementation journey

Benefits: Provides a central source of SNOMED CT implementation resources

Potential Customers: Implementers, Vendors, Members, Researchers and Knowledge Producers snomed.org/support

Implementation Support Team

A team dedicated to providing assistance to implementations of SNOMED CT and developing resources to support implementers, including guidance and best practice demonstrations

Benefits: Provides assistance for implementers of SNOMED CT

Potential Customers: Implementers, Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers support@snomed.org

Implementation Workshops

Customizable workshops on the topics of: implementation strategy, project planning, implementation assistance and next steps.

Benefits: Provides a forum for your implementation team to explore their objectives, requirements, designs and questions with SNOMED CT experts.

Potential Customers: Implementers, Policy Makers snomed.org/support

We provide direct support to implementers through the SNOMED CT adoption journey, from inception and strategy to deployment. This support is complemented by implementation resources, including documentation, training, and tooling.

SNOMED CT Demonstrators

A collection of demonstration tools designed to support implementers of SNOMED CT

Snolytical: data analytics with SNOMED CT

User interface: search and data entry with SNOMED CT

Implementation Roadmap Generator: create an implementation plan for SNOMED CT

Benefits: Shows ways that SNOMED CT can be effectively used

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Implementers

snomed.org/support

SNOMED in Action

A portal on the snomed.org website which allows users of SNOMED CT to post information about implementations of the terminology and allows implementers to connect and leverage experience

Benefits: Shares SNOMED CT user experiences; Allows visibility into SNOMED CT success stories

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Policy Makers, Implementers

snomed.org/snomed-ct/ snomed-in-action

Customer & Stakeholder Support

Regional Customer Support Management

Dedicated Customer Relationship Executives in each region who provides support based on customer and stakeholder needs

Benefits: Enables customers and stakeholders with a direct contact to access support on a variety of SNOMED CTrelated issues– e.g., implementation, licensing, access, contact with other members

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers info@snomed.org

Help Desk

Online help desk for queries regarding SNOMED CT

Benefits: Enables customers and stakeholders to get answers to questions electronically in a timely fashion

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers info@snomed.org

Clinical Engagement

Liaison and resources for the global clinical community to support their use of SNOMED CT

Benefits: Provides a single point of contact for clinicians to access to support the clinical usage of SNOMED CT and tailored resources

Potential Customers: Care Providers snomed.org/clinicians

Clinical Reference Groups/ Clinical Project Groups

Open membership groups where clinicians from various specialties discuss and share knowledge

Benefits: Increases collaboration and knowledge sharing/ brokering among SNOMED CT conversant clinicians, ensures clinical content remains current in SNOMED CT

Potential Customers: Care Providers

snomed.org/clinicians

Collaboration Support

Liaison which works with other standards organizations, including the development of joint deliverables, maps and linkages

Benefits: Allows for the interoperability between the various terminologies or standards. Allows for SNOMED CT to grow and become more relevant to users

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Administrators, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

info@snomed.org

We provide customer and stakeholder support services to Members and Vendors as well as collaboration activities with external classification and terminology organizations.

Customer & Stakeholder Support

Vendor Engagement

Liaison and resources for the global vendor community to support the use of SNOMED CT in their products and services

Benefits: Provides a single point of contact for vendors to communicate requirements and issues to SNOMED International. Ensures the needs of vendors are addressed to allow for increased adoption

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors

snomed.org/vendors

SNOMED CT Marketplace

Area of the snomed.org website where vendors of SNOMED CT products and services can exchange business information with potential purchasers

Benefits: Showcases vendor products and services, allows potential customers to see offerings available by region and scope of service

Potential Customers: Vendors, Members, Implementers

snomed.org/our-customers/vendors/ marketplace

Research Engagement

Forum for researchers and knowledge producers to discuss the use of SNOMED CT in research

Benefits: Provides the research community with access to global resources and ways to discuss SNOMED CT research

Potential Customers: Researchers and Knowledge Producers

confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/ RESENG/Research+Engagement

SNOMED CT Document Library

Overviews

National Release Center Guide (ES, DE, PT) Starter Guide (PT) Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT Guides

Benefits: Assists with implementation and use of SNOMED CT. Provides editorial guidance to help ensure interoperability

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Care Providers, Implementers

A collection of SNOMED CT documents, including introductory material, practical guides, technical specifications and reference material snomed.org/doc

Starter Guide Extensions Practical Guide Translation Guidelines

ICD-10 Mapping Technical Guide (PT) Medicinal Product Model

National Drug Extension Model Search and Data Entry Guide

SNOMED CT Example EMR/EHR Requirements Guide

Terminology Services Guide Using LOINC with SNOMED CT COVID-19 Data Coding Guide Vendor Introduction to SNOMED CT Other

SNOMED International Business Meetings Presentations

SNOMED CT Expo presentations SNOMED CT Glossary

Education

SNOMED CT Foundation Course (English)

Provides a basic level of SNOMED CT knowledge

Curso de Fundamentos (Español)

Benefits: Gain foundational SNOMED CT knowledge; Prerequisite for more advanced courses, including the Implementation and Authoring Courses

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Policy Makers, Implementers

Benefits: Enables Spanish speakers to learn about foundational SNOMED CT topics

Potential Customers: Spanish-speaking Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Policy Makers, Implementers

Foundation Course Documents in Chinese

Translation of Course presentations Resources in simplified Chinese

Benefits: Enables Chinese speakers to learn the foundation topics of SNOMED CT

Potential Customers: Chinese-speaking Implementers, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

courses.ihtsdotools.org elearning@snomed.org

We provide online courses that are designed to enable users to learn more about SNOMED CT. We issue verifiable graded completion certificates to all those who have successfully completed our courses and met all course requirements, including having passed online assessments.

SNOMED CT Terminology Services Course and Certification

Teaches the knowledge and skills needed to use SNOMED CT terminology services to search and retrieve SNOMED CT content

SNOMED CT Implementation Course*

Teaches the knowledge and skills needed to implement the SNOMED CT aspects of a clinical system

Benefits: Enables developers to learn how to use SNOMED CT terminology services

Potential Customers: Vendors, Implementers, Members, Researchers and Knowledge Producers courses.ihtsdotools.org

SNOMED CT Authoring Level 1 Course and Certification*

Teaches the knowledge and skills needed to perform basic SNOMED CT authoring tasks, and prepares for the Authoring Level 1 certification exam

Benefits: Provides knowledge and skills relevant to implementing a SNOMED CT enabled system

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers

courses.ihtsdotools.org

Benefits: Enhances knowledge of the content development process, editorial guidelines and related topics, plus handson experience in authoring SNOMED CT content at an introductory level. Certification demonstrates competency in these skills for employment or job prerequisites

Education

SNOMED CT

Authoring Level 2 Course and Certification*

Helps experienced SNOMED CT authors to extend and develop their authoring skills and prepares for the Authoring Level 2 certification exam

*This advanced course is available for those authors who are Authoring Level 1 certified.

Benefits: Provides advanced level learning about SNOMED CT authoring processes, tooling, editorial rules, description logic, content review and quality assurance. Certification demonstrates competency in these skills for employment or job prerequisites.

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers courses.ihtsdotools.org

SNOMED CT for Clinicians

Introduces they why, what and how of SNOMED CT to clinicians

Benefits: Builds knowledge about SNOMED CT and how it can be used to enhance clinical care

Potential Customers: Care Providers, Members courses.ihtsdotools.org

SNOMED CT for Data Analysts Learning Pathway

Provides a collection of learning resources designed to quickly learn how to use SNOMED CT for clinical data analysis

Benefits: Builds knowledge about SNOMED CT and how it can be used to enhance data analysis

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers courses.ihtsdotools.org

SNOMED CT for Developers

Learning Pathway

Provides a collection of learning resources designed to quickly learn how to leverage SNOMED CT in software applications

Education Delivery Partners

Agreements with third party providers to deliver SNOMED CT certified education in other languages

Benefits: Builds knowledge about SNOMED CT and how it can be used to enhance software solutions

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers courses.ihtsdotools.org

Continuing Education Credits

Agreements with professional associations to endorse continuing professional development and national informatics recertification for specified SNOMED CT education programming

Benefits: Enables non-English speakers to access SNOMED CT certified education in their own language

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers

elearning@snomed.org

Benefits: Get credit for SNOMED CT education activities

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers info@snomed.org

Education

Annual SNOMED CT Expo

International Expo where the program includes implementation, academic/ research and educational presentations about SNOMED CT

Benefits: Enables the SNOMED CT community to leverage the experience of others who use SNOMED CT

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Policy Makers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers

snomedexpo.org

SNOMED CT Web Series

Clinical, Research and Implementation webinars that that showcase SNOMED CT use and application globally

Benefits: Provides a free-of-charge opportunity to learn from global users of SNOMED CT, available live and ondemand.

Potential Customers: Members, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, and Vendors

snomed.org/web-series

See our Course Catalog for complete information on our educational offerings:

SNOMED CT Presentation Library

Provides access to a wide range of SNOMED CT E-Learning presentations and resources

courses.ihtsdotools.org

SNOMED CT

Starter Tutorials

Provides an introduction to some of the key benefits and features of SNOMED CT

Benefits: Enables learning about SNOMED CT without taking a predefined course or pathway

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

access presentation library

Benefits: Provides a quick way of understanding the key benefits and features of SNOMED CT

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

access the tutorials

Tooling

TECHNICAL

Snowstorm Terminology Server

Snowstorm provides the API for the SNOMED International Browser including the International Edition and many Extensions. It can be used in local implementations to query SNOMED CT

Benefits: Open source terminology server that hosts multiple extensions alongside the International Edition of SNOMED CT. Allows multilingual search and content retrieval using both its own API and FHIR APIs

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Care Providers

github.com/IHTSDO/snowstorm

Benefits: Users of SNOMED are able to create and access refsets; Allows for translation of SNOMED CT into the Member countries’ native languages to enable implementation activities; Stakeholders can leverage the open source code

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Care Providers, Implementers

refset.ihtsdotools.org

We develop and operate applications and platforms to support our products and services. All the source code of any noncommercial applications and platforms is open source and available to any stakeholder wishing to leverage the tools in their own environment.

Release Management

Service to enable creation of a SNOMED CT RF2 release

Benefits: Produces quality assured release of SNOMED CT for the International Edition as well as its derivatives and Member editions and extensions. Stakeholders can leverage the open source code

Potential Customers: Members confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/SNOMED +International+Release+Management+Home

SNOMED CT Managed Service

An online service allowing SNOMED International Members to manage a release of a SNOMED CT local extension

Benefits: Enables users to operationalize their National Release Centre in a quick and effective manner

Potential Customers: Members snomed.org/snomed-ct/software-tools

MLDS Licensing Distribution Management

Tool that manages and distributes SNOMED CT editions and extensions

Benefits: Allows Members to license users quickly upon joining. Licenses for use by affiliates in non-Member countries can be issued centrally

Potential Customers: Members mlds.ihtsdotools.org

in 2022, we started to release the SNOMED CT International Edition at the end of each month, rather than just at the end of each January and July. Making the product available on a monthly basis means less down-time required between release cycles, enabling faster turnaround of authoring content and a more agile and responsive terminology.

Authoring Platform

Platform developed that allows Members and other stakeholders to author content

Benefits: Allows customers and stakeholders to author content. Stakeholders can leverage the open source code

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Implementers

confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/AUTHS/ SNOMED+CT+Authoring+Tooling

SNOMED CT Concept Lookup

Simple tool to look up SNOMED CT concepts

Benefits: Allows users who receive SNOMED coded data but do not have SNOMED CT in their systems to look up concepts quickly

Potential Customers: Vendors, Care Providers, Researchers and Knowledge Producers

lookup.snomedtools.org/

Tooling

MAPPING

Snap2SNOMED (NEW)

A mapping tool that supports the collaborative authoring and maintenance of simple maps from other code systems to SNOMED CT

Benefits: Ability to create simple maps to SNOMED CT; Online and easily accessible (requires login from SNOMED International); Automated mapping suggestions are available as a bulk operation and for single source terms; Map review process available in workflow for map content

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Implementers

snap.snomedtools.org/

confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/S2SUG/ Snap2Snomed+User+Guide

Mapping Tool

A technical tool to support mappings from SNOMED CT to other code sets

Benefits: Enables mappings from SNOMED CT to other code sets; Stakeholders can leverage the open source code

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Care Providers, Implementers

mapping.ihtsdotools.org

github.com/IHTSDO/OTF-Mapping-Service

ENGAGEMENT

SNOMED

International Collaborative Environment

Platform that allows Members and other stakeholders to collaborate

Benefits: Allows customers and stakeholders to collaborate and share SNOMED CT user experiences in an efficient manner

Potential Customers: Members, Vendors, Researchers and Knowledge Producers, Care Providers

confluence.ihtsdotools.org

Media Resources

Explore the Value of SNOMED CT

SNOMED CT Value

Amid competing priorities and scrutinized budgets, government decision makers are looking for qualitative and quantitative evidence to support their investments, including achieved outcomes and benefits narratives.

SNOMED International has developed an innovative Case for Investment (add link to value.snomed.org) that assembles a thoughtful collection of SNOMED CT case studies and also delivers real world examples of SNOMED CT across its varied uses.

SNOMED International complements updated stakeholder value propositions with the evidence that SNOMED CT adds measurable value to a broad range of primary and secondary processes that use SNOMED CT encoded data to deliver improved patient outcomes.

SNOMED CT is well positioned as a best-in-class clinical reference terminology to enable the semantic interoperation and knowledge representation of massive and diverse sets of data required by the next evolution in health care delivery.

value.snomed.org

SNOMED CT Value Series:

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