Canada's representative to SNOMED International is Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), through which the SNOMED CT® terminology standard and related assets are made available to Canadian users. Canada Canada's representative to SNOMED International is Canada Health Infoway (Infoway), through which the SNOMED CT® terminology standard and related assets are made available to Canadian users. Contact Details Canada Health Infoway 1000 Sherbrooke Street West Suite 1200 Montreal QC H3A 3G4 Canada Website: https://www.infoway-inforoute.ca/ Email: standards@infoway-inforoute.ca Appointed Representatives General Assembly: Andrew Liu Member Forum: Janice Spence, Julie Boutin News articles Infoway helps to improve the health of Canadians by working with partners to accelerate the development, adoption and effective use of digital health across Canada. Through our investments, we help deliver better quality and access to care and more efficient delivery of health services for patients and clinicians. Established in 2001, Infoway is an independent, not-for-profit organization funded by the federal government. More information about SNOMED CT in Canada can be accessed here: Canada Health Infoway: English ; French InfoCentral: English ; French Back Learn more Global Patient Set Built from the globally recognized SNOMED CT terminology standard at no cost to users Learn more Get SNOMED CT Information about our license and fee structure Learn more Software and tools We develop and operate applications platforms to support our products and services Learn more Document library Access overviews, guides and specifications Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Major Milestone for Africa: South Africa Adopts SNOMED CT to Drive Digital Health Transformation Back 14 May 2026 Back Building a shared clinical language for the South African health system LONDON, UK & PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – May 14, 2026 – South Africa, a country of more than 63 million, has joined SNOMED International, taking a major step forward toward realizing its digital health strategy. SNOMED International is a Member-driven, not-for-profit organization that owns, develops and maintains SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. The organization works globally to enable consistent, high-quality health information exchange, improve clinical decision-making, and accelerate digital health transformation. The decision follows the country’s 2024 announcement that it would introduce new health terminological systems and classifications for use within the national health information system, including SNOMED CT, alongside other international standards. Ms Milani Wolmarans, who has led this work from the National Department of Health, notes that "South Africa's membership of SNOMED International marks an important step in our digital health journey. A shared clinical language across our public, private, academic, and civil society sectors will support better-informed clinical decisions, more reliable health information exchange and improved patient care. We look forward to contributing to, and learning from, the international SNOMED community." SNOMED CT complements South Africa’s standards implementation roadmap and supports detailed clinical documentation and semantic interoperability at the point of care. The Director-General of the National Department of Health has gazetted the intention to introduce a set of health terminological systems for use in electronic health records and health information exchange, including SNOMED CT alongside complementary classifications from the WHO Family of International Classifications. South Africa's membership extends SNOMED CT access across all health sector entities, including public and private providers, academic, research, and civil society institutions. The country’s National Department of Health is establishing a SNOMED CT National Release Centre and a National Terminological Mapping Service; the Department of Health Clinical Coding Advisory Technical Working Group will co-ordinate implementation. SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete describes the announcement as a significant milestone not only for South Africa, but for the broader African region. “While it is the first country from the region to adopt SNOMED CT, it builds on a number of past initiatives, including earlier engagement with SNOMED CT within South Africa,” Don says. “By joining SNOMED International, South Africa is taking a leadership role in advancing interoperable, high-quality health data, and we look forward to supporting the country’s digital health strategy and to strengthening collaboration across the entire continent as SNOMED CT adoption continues to grow.” South Africa joins SNOMED International with a clear sense of the work ahead, and looks forward to building shared clinical information practice with the organization’s Member countries around the world. Media Inquiries: SNOMED International Kelly Kuru Email: comms@snomed.org National Department of Health Email: coding@health.gov.za Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

Norway joins SNOMED International as our 30th Member Back 9 Jan 2017 Back The Direktoratet for e-helse (Norwegian Directorate of ehealth) and SNOMED International announced today that as of January 1, 2017 Norway has joined as SNOMED International’s thirtieth Member. Direktoratet for e-helse (Norwegian Directorate of ehealth) is a subordinate institution of the Ministry of Health and Care Services and is leading the implementation of SNOMED CT in Norway. The decision to join SNOMED International was taken following a thorough analysis of how the Norwegian health sector could potentially benefit from implementing SNOMED CT as a terminology in selected areas. This resulted in SNOMED CT being evaluated as the most promising standard clinical terminology to best cover clinical documentation needs. Norway will initially explore SNOMED CT further to gain more competence and learn more about how SNOMED CT can support the future vision of healthcare in Norway, while at the same time provide pilot access to stakeholders with immediate needs within dentistry and terminology areas like anatomic location. SNOMED CT will also be evaluated as a reference terminology for health registries in Norway. “We are very pleased to join SNOMED International and look forward to strengthen our knowledge and cooperation between Norway and SNOMED International in order to support our healthcare in the best possible way” said the Norwegian Directorate of eHealth’s CEO Christine Bergland. “Our expectations regarding the effect of implementing SNOMED CT are high, beginning with the EHR within dentistry”. “We have had several countries join in the last few months and are very pleased to welcome Norway as a Member,” said SNOMED International CEO Don Sweete. “It is an exciting time for the organization with the new trading name, several major projects launching imminently and work continuing under collaboration agreements. As a Member, Norway adds to our organizational strength and will also benefit from all of this activity”. The addition of Norway has grown SNOMED International’s Membership to 30 countries and territories across five continents. As SNOMED International’s newest Member, Norway will be able to manage and use SNOMED CT and other related products within the country, participate on the General Assembly and more. For more information about e-health and SNOMED CT’s use in Norway please visit ehelse.no . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

SNOMED International signs education delivery agreement with Digital China Health Technologies Co Back 19 Nov 2019 Back London, United Kingdom, Nov. 19, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SNOMED International is pleased to announce a recent partnership with Digital China Health Technologies Co., Ltd (DCHealth) as an approved delivery agent of SNOMED CT education throughout China. DCHealth and SNOMED International have struck an agreement to deliver mutually agreed upon SNOMED CT educational content including the organization’s clinically and technically curated Foundation and Implementation courses, with the potential to also offer the organizations suite of Authoring courses for delivery. As part of this agreement, DCHealth will serve as an extension of the SNOMED International Education Program within China and be empowered to issue course completion certificates and certifications as applicable. DCHealth is an innovative company in the industry of healthcare IT and Big Data and has enjoyed a relationship with SNOMED International. DCHealth has committed to develop an independent technology system, as well as to the development and innovation in healthcare Big Data and Precision Medicine, to promote healthcare information technology worldwide. SNOMED International began delivery of education programming to support understanding, use and implementation of SNOMED CT in 2015. Since that time, and with demonstrated growth of the organization’s Member base and affiliates, SNOMED International has been exploring ways to broaden its ability to educate audiences interested in clinical terminology. At the recent SNOMED CT Expo 2019, SNOMED International featured in-person delivery of our most popular tutorials and workshops. “We recognize and value the growing interest and demand for SNOMED CT education in China” offered SNOMED International CEO, Don Sweete. Mr. Sweete went on to say, “we are honored to engage in this education delivery agreement with DCHealth and appreciate the opportunity to move into this vital market with our comprehensive and mature education curriculum.” David Shi, the founding CEO of Digital China Health shared with journalists, “in China, we are so passionate about big data and AI in healthcare, but without comprehensive coding, the benefits of medical data are limited substantially. The desire to adopt a world leading terminology is met with this great opportunity of assisting SNOMED CT in disseminating education locally. With our hands-on experience in the national projects in cancer, cardio and nephropathy, local experts will soon discover that SNOMED CT is the missing part they had been looking for.” This arrangement went into effect as of 2nd July 2019. Contact info@snomed.org with any additional inquiries. Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

New paper published in JAMIA explores results of SNOMED CT entity linking challenge Back 29 Jul 2025 Back LONDON, UK – July 29, 2025 – SNOMED International, along with a team of research and technology focused subject matter experts, recently contributed to a research paper documenting the development of entity linking models to link spans of free-text data in clinical notes with specific topics in the clinical terminology SNOMED CT . The paper, which had been planned as part of the competition, was recently published in the highly respected, peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association , the outcomes of which were derived from SNOMED International’s Entity Linking Challenge held in 2024. Entity linking involves identifying and labeling the portions of clinical notes that correspond to specific medical concepts. Most of the currently existing clinical content is in free text, making it difficult to analyze and extract meaningful insights from it. Entity linking enables healthcare organizations to convert that data into a structured format that can be readily analyzed by computers, in turn stimulating the development of new medicines, treatment pathways, and better patient outcomes. SNOMED CT is a systematically organized clinical terminology used by healthcare providers globally to facilitate the accurate recording, sharing, and analysis of clinical data. It is owned, administered and developed by the not-for-profit organization SNOMED International . The SNOMED CT Entity Linking Challenge , which ran from January to March 2024, trained machine learning models to link clinical notes with specific topics based on the largest publicly available dataset of labeled clinical notes that had been de-identified and annotated with SNOMED CT concepts. It provided an opportunity to advance the development of efficient and reliable tools for automating the coding of patient data, facilitating interoperability and decision support, and improving healthcare delivery. The challenge was supported by platform host partner DrivenData , which hosts online data science competitions; AI consultancy Veratai ; Physionet , the Research Resource for Complex Physiologic Signals, and an annotation team. There were 553 registered entrants. The three winning teams submitted varied approaches: a dictionary-based method, an encoder-based method, and a decoder-based method, respectively. In a 2024 Coded Conversations podcast on the competition, SNOMED International Chief Digital Information Officer Rory Davidson and AI Advisor Will Hardman (who was also a co-organizer of the challenge and a co-author of the paper) outlined the difficulties posed by analyzing the healthcare data stored in free-text documents such as in clinician-entered patient notes, and explained how clinical terminologies such as SNOMED CT enable healthcare professionals to map free-text to medical concepts, enabling the records to be unambiguously analyzed by computers. “It's a niche field,” said Will, “but it's a field that has been under study for a couple of decades. There are plenty of approaches and models out there for doing this; there are models in production … in hospitals across the world .. but what there isn't [yet] is a really high performance set of well-trained entity linking models out there in the public domain that can be ported to all the many, many use cases.” The paper, which was co-authored by SNOMED International, Veratai and the winning teams of the competition, describes the basis of the work – a large set of 74,808 annotations curated across 272 discharge notes spanning 6,624 unique clinical concepts – and the evaluation process. It compares the approaches used by the winning solutions and highlights the most challenging factors affecting clinical entity linking models. It also describes the data set and the policy-based approach to the development of the “ground truth” data set and provides an example of its approach to scoring. Importantly, it analyzes the reasons for low-scoring concepts, and details a number of lessons learned. Referencing the creation of annotation guidelines and the publicly available annotated data set as part of the outcomes of the challenge, Rory described the project as one that “keeps on giving,” adding that the paper points to the importance of developing tools and techniques for monitoring annotation quality and for spotting and fixing potential inconsistencies. “What we found is that the data itself is more important to successful entity linking than the approach used, as our comparative analysis highlighted few meaningful distinctions in the strengths and weaknesses of each,” he said. “This challenge showed that even the most advanced AI models, including large language models, are only as good as the data they learn from. This challenge was a big step forward, and we’re excited to see it spark further progress along with our goals of facilitating interoperability and decision support, and to improving healthcare delivery.” The Entity Linking Challenge also supports the technologies focus of SNOMED International’s 2025-2030 Strategy , which aims to promote and support quality products, services and tools leveraging current and emerging technologies, supporting seamless health information flow from the point of capture to the point of data consumption; and prioritize initiatives focused on making SNOMED CT easier to adopt and simpler to implement. Learn more about the Entity Linking Challenge . Read the paper . Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

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SNOMED International offers a wide range of software and tools to use and work with SNOMED CT, as well as supporting a growing community of developers. Technologies Our strategic focus on emerging technologies ensures SNOMED CT both evolves and informs AI, large language models, and next-generation health systems — keeping it relevant, scalable, and fit for modern healthcare. AI in Clinical Terminology: SNOMED International's Position SNOMED International's position statement makes the case that AI in healthcare is only safe when its outputs are constrained and governed by verified clinical terminology — and outlines guiding principles and internal AI initiatives through which SNOMED CT serves as that essential guardrail. Learn More Entity Linking SNOMED International, in collaboration with Data Driven, has developed an Entity Linking Challenge and Benchmark to advance the automatic mapping of unstructured clinical text to verified SNOMED CT concepts — setting a shared, validated standard against which AI and NLP systems can be rigorously tested and compared. Learn about the Entity Linking Challenge Learn about the AI Benchmark Translation Tooling The goal of developing AI-enabled translation tools is to accelerate the localisation of SNOMED CT into low-resource languages, allowing member countries to produce accurate, concept-anchored translations at scale — without compromising the clinical precision that safe implementation demands. Learn More Internal Impacts of AI As SNOMED CT grows in size and complexity, AI-assisted quality assurance offers a powerful way to help terminologists manage increasing workloads — automating the detection of issues, generating tasks directly, and ultimately supporting the concept modelling process itself. Learn More Join the Conversation Join SNOMED International's Technology & Software community Forum and be part of the discussion. Learn More Learn more News Read our latest news, newsletters and events Learn more Document library Access overviews, guides and specifications Learn more Vendors SNOMED CT enables digital health solutions with the gold standard in clinical terminology Learn more Education Our education program is designed to enable users to maximize their knowledge of SNOMED CT Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe AI in Clinical Terminology Entity Linking Translation Tooling Internal Impacts of AI Join the Conversation

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SNOMED International is a not-for-profit organization that owns, administers and develops SNOMED CT, the world’s most comprehensive clinical terminology. Visit www.snomed.org for product and service information, stakeholder implementation resources and news about SNOMED CT. Explore the Value of SNOMED CT This interactive platform presents SNOMED CT stakeholder value propositions along with evidence that SNOMED CT adds measurable value to a broad range of primary and secondary health processes leveraging SNOMED CT encoded data to deliver improved patient outcomes. Read the executive summary SNOMED CT is a best-in-class, core clinical reference terminology that is well-designed, comprehensive, serves multiple uses, is widely adopted, and enables improved patient outcomes Question A core clinical reference terminology Several names are given to systems of standardized terms or concepts, such as SNOMED CT. It can be referred to as a terminology, a vocabulary, or a lexicon. These names are all synonymous. The semantic network features of SNOMED CT are the same as what exists in ontologies. SNOMED CT is a terminology built on an ontological foundation (i.e. it looks and acts like an ontology). Ideally, controlled terminologies (vocabularies) should have twelve features, as outlined in the seminal article by Dr. James Cimino. SNOMED CT does in fact adhere to all the twelve features, some of which allow it to be differentiated from other classification systems. As a terminology, SNOMED CT is fit-for-purpose. The European-wide ASSESS CT project, integrated a broad range of stakeholders, and investigated the fitness of the international clinical terminology SNOMED CT as a potential standard for EU-wide eHealth deployments. Assess CT deemed SNOMED CT the best available core reference terminology for cross-border, national and regional eHealth deployments in Europe. Learn more about SNOMED CT Answer What is SNOMED CT? Understand SNOMED CT through the example of Viral Pneumonia Click here 5 things that make SNOMED CT unique Core Reference Terminology SNOMED CT is integrated to over 20 other clinical terminologies and classification systems. It is the core reference terminology in the clinical terminology ecosystem. Learn more Content For terminologies “content is paramount”. SNOMED CT, with over 350,000 concepts is the most comprehensive and fine-grained clinical terminology. It has 3-4 times more content than the next largest clinical terminologies. Learn more Semantic Network SNOMED CT has a machine-readable semantic network, whereas other terminologies do not. SNOMED CT's semantic network differentiates it from other clinical terminologies, especially in its capability to carry out analytics and research. Learn more Broad Use SNOMED CT is commonly used for documenting problem lists, procedures, clinical findings and diseases in clinical information, health data and analytics and interoperability solutions. Learn more National Mandates SNOMED CT is mandated for use in many countries, most notably: U.S.A. with Meaningful Use U.K.’s NHS policy that all GP systems will use SNOMED CT Australia mandating SNOMED CT as the preferred national solution for a clinical terminology as endorsed by the Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council. Learn more The value of SNOMED CT for stakeholders Policy Makers Patients & Citizens Care Providers Vendors Implementers Researchers, etc. Collaboration Partners Members Stakeholder value proposition Where is SNOMED CT used? SNOMED CT-embedded Clinical Information Systems, Health Data & Analytics Platforms, and/or Interoperability Solutions are used in the following ways Research Conducting clinical research, laboratory research and scientific research. Data Entry and Integration The recording & integration of SNOMED CT in clinical information systems and health data & analytics platforms. Clinical Information Sharing The electronic exchange of clinical data and documents among Care Providers along the continuum of care, often using interoperability solutions. Research Creating historical summaries, doing point-of-care reporting and using clinical decision support. Population Analytics Conducting trend & comparative analysis, pharmacovigilence and clinical audit. Management Analytics Conducting trend & comparative analysis and health system value analysis. SNOMED CT Case Studies A Demonstrated Case for Investment: Real World Use Learn more AEHRC and CSIRO (Australia) a look into the current and future possibilities for SNOMED CT use in artificial intelligence. Learn more Honghu Public Health Surveillance (COVID-19) a description of the SNOMED-CT-embedded Honghu Hybrid System that supported policy makers and public health officials with COVID-19 surveillance and control Learn more OHDSI the SNOMED CT-embedded OMOP CDM, and the benefits obtained from research projects using the OHDSI research collaborative Learn more University of Nebraska Medical Centre the benefits obtained from the SNOMED CT-embedded i2B2 data warehouse and its use for clinical and translational research Learn more Northern Queensland Primary Health Network and the Mackay Hospital and Health Service an economic evaluation of the Mackay SNOMED CT-embedded HealthPathways implementation Learn more University of Cambridge Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the benefits derived from a SNOMED CT-embedded eHospital clinical information system, patient portal and a health data & analytics platform Learn more Barts NHS Trust and the East London Health and Care Partnership the benefits derived from a SNOMED CT-embedded Cerner clinical information system and a regional EHR and data & analytics platform Learn more North York General Hospital the benefits obtained from a SNOMED CT-embedded eCare clinical decision support system Learn more Kaiser Permanente the benefits derived from a SNOMED CT-embedded HealthConnect clinical information system and patient portal, as well as analytics and research Learn more Veterans Health Administration the cost benefit analysis of the SNOMED CT-embedded VistA system, as well as the benefits derived from the Veterans Health Information Exchange (VHIE). 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Engaging with clinicians is fundamental to ensuring that the SNOMED CT product is, and continues to be, fit to support clinical practice. SNOMED International’s culture has a progressive and sustainable approach to engaging clinicians. Clinicians Engaging with clinicians is fundamental to ensuring that the SNOMED CT product is, and continues to be, fit to support clinical practice. Vision for clinical engagement The vision of clinical engagement is "to ensure that all activities of SNOMED International are influenced by global clinical communities.” SNOMED International’s culture has a progressive and sustainable approach to engaging clinicians. View the strategy Engage as a clinician The benefits of clinical engagement include: Informing direction of SNOMED International products and services Improving quality, and thus clinical usability and acceptability, of SNOMED International products and services, based on clinical knowledge and expertise Identifying clinical champions who support and endorse the implementation of SNOMED CT and related products and services Promoting collaboration between international healthcare professional groups that improve SNOMED International products and services Our clinical engagement team: Global Clinical Engagement Lead - Ian Green Clinical Engagement Lead - Dr. Charles Gutteridge Collaboration Lead - Jane Millar Contact Clinical groups Clinical input to support the development of SNOMED CT is delivered through Clinical Reference Groups and Clinical Project Groups. These groups are focused on clinical specialities, with each specialty are having its own section on Spaces, our collaborative portal. Each site supports discussion and knowledge sharing. Access to the Clinical Reference Groups and Clinical Project Groups is though a central portal focused on clinical engagement activities. Learn about Clinical Reference and Clinical Project Groups Clinical Web Series The Clinical Web Series is a collection of monthly, 90 minute webinars where clinicians working with SNOMED CT share their real-world experiences. Attendees will gain a greater insight into the work of clinicians using SNOMED CT in their practice. Registration is open to all and there is no cost to attend. View schedule SNOMED CT for clinical data analytics Building on data capture at the point of care, one of the prime uses of SNOMED CT is to enable clinical data analytics. Watch the demo outlining how SNOMED CT supports data analytics as well as review related SNOMED International resources. Watch demo Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe Vision for clinical engagement Clinical groups Clinical Web Series SNOMED CT for clinical data analytics

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Back Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Clinical Partner In 2021, SNOMED International announced a new collaboration agreement with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to include the Academy’s Nutrition Care Process Terminology (NCPT ) version 2020 in the International Edition of SNOMED CT. The NCPT supports the Academy’s Nutrition Care Process, which is a systematic approach to providing high-quality nutrition care that includes nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention and monitoring/evaluation. The Academy’s Nutrition Care Process Research Outcomes Committee developed and maintains the NCPT. Additional information The agreement formalizes the work SNOMED and the Academy have been doing since 2017 when representatives from the Academy and other nutrition and dietetics associations around the world requested the inclusion of the NCPT in the SNOMED CT International Edition. SNOMED and the Academy established the NCPT Clinical Project Group , a SNOMED International project group which includes representatives from both organizations along with international users to guide and facilitate the work. The five-year agreement governs the working relationship between the Academy and SNOMED International regarding the maintenance and updating of NCPT content in SNOMED CT. Related activities also include developing an approach to the method and content of attribution, developing and maintaining processes based on changes to SNOMED CT over time, and to managing additions and changes to the NCPT. Both organizations will work together to build awareness of the benefits of this initiative among dietetic and nutrition professionals and will consider future collaborative activities based on emerging global requirements. AND content is included in SNOMED CT as of January 2023 with plans to work towards producing a SNOMED CT refset. Press Release: July 2021: Collaboration agreement formalized with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for nutrition content in SNOMED CT Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe

American Dental Association Back American Dental Association Clinical Partner The American Dental Association (ADA) is not-for-profit and the largest professional association for dentistry in the United States, representing more than 157,000 dentist members. It is the premier source of oral health information in the United States, if not the entire world, and has advocated for the public’s health as well as promoted the art and science of dentistry since 1859. It has developed and continues to develop the SNODENT dental diagnostic code set. Additional information In 2012, ADA and IHTSDO signed a Cooperation Agreement which focused on aligning the content of SNODENT and SNOMED CT, where appropriate, and also saw the instigation of the IHTSDO International Dentistry Special Interest Group (SIG), now called the Dentistry Clinical Reference Group . This Cooperation Agreement was updated to a Collaboration Agreement in April 2016 focusing on agreed joint work, including: Development of a SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Subset Release and maintenance of this SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Subset Ongoing provision of Subject Matter Experts by ADA Support for maintenance and updating of the linkage between SNOMED CT and SNODENT at respective releases The SNOMED CT General Dentistry Diagnoses Refset is now released and updated annually in line with the July release of SNOMED CT. It is worth noting that the Dentistry Clinical Reference Group has also produced an Odontogram refset which is also available through SNOMED International and aligns with SNODENT where appropriate. These refsets have been included in the scope of SNOMED International's Global Patient Set . Press Release: April 2016: New agreement between ADA and SNOMED International Subscribe to SNOMED International news Stay up to date on SNOMED news, features, developments and newsletters by subscribing to our news service. Subscribe