Table of Contents: 2022 SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER No. 448
September 2022 SNOMED CT US Edition Available for Download. NLM Tech Bull. 2022 Sep-Oct;(448):b1.
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce the September 2022 US Edition of SNOMED CT is available for download. This release contains 662 new active concepts specific to the US Extension. The September 2022 US Edition of SNOMED CT is based on the content published in the June 2022 SNOMED CT International Edition and includes any SNOMED CT COVID-19 Related Content published in the June 2022 International Edition.
Please note - While the SNOMED CT International Edition has moved to monthly releases, the US Edition of SNOMED CT will remain on the current bi-annual release schedule of March and September.
From the March 2023 Release of the US Edition onwards, the RF2 package naming convention will be changing from:
...to the following:
So, for the March 2023 US Edition Release, for example, the RF2 package would have originally been called:
...whereas from now on it will instead be called:
There has been discussion on the Module Dependency Refset Specifications (MDRS) records regarding dependencies not being transitive, meaning that they cannot be inferred from a chain of dependencies. For example, if module-A depends on module-B and module-B depends on module-C, the dependency of module-A on module-C must still be stated explicitly. This has not been resolved by SNOMED International, as their recent deliberations regarding the possibility of changing the specifications to make MDRS records transitive have concluded that so far, the business case for doing so is not strong enough. Therefore, the US Edition of SNOMED CT still, in theory, has missing MDRS records which should explicitly call out the dependency of the ICD-10CM map module on both Core International modules. As the new automated MDRS functionality also generates these records, it was decided to allow their introduction until SNOMED International decides to change the RF2 specifications. These records have been included in the September 2022 US Edition release by allowing the automated MDRS generation code to add 2 new records to the US Edition MDRS, explicitly calling out the dependency of the ICD-10CM map module on both Core International modules:
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the information above, please contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org.
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