Infoway’s bi-annual release of the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT (English and French) is now available. This latest release aligns with the SNOMED International March 2020 release published as an interim publication in support of the coronavirus respiratory disease outbreak. Updated COVID-19 related concepts and descriptions are included in this release.

For the first time, the Canadian Edition of SNOMED CT now includes all translated terms from the SNOMED CT Common French Translation Extension, with translation done by Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada, and PHAST(France). The number of French terms now available has increased to more than 77,000 terms, including the translation of the COVID-19 concepts.

New concepts and descriptions have been created for supporting Canadian implementations, including implementations by the Public Health Immunization Community, the Canadian Institute for Health Information Reference Data Model (CRDM), the eConsult Project in Newfoundland & Labrador, the eHealth Ontario Standards Project, the Manitoba Public Health Information Management System.

The Canadian Edition package is available from the Terminology Gateway. You can also visit SNOMED International’s SNOMED CT browser to view the Canadian Edition content and subsets.

For the human-readable and computable formats of Canadian subsets using SNOMED CT, please visit Infoway’s Terminology Gateway, which enables browsing, accessing, downloading functionality for your ease of reference and use.