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New Zealand SNOMED CT® National Release Centre
Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine — Clinical Terms
New Zealand National Release Centre for SNOMED CT®
New Zealand is one of nine countries that are Charter Members of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). This move followed many months of effort assisting intergovernmental process of designing the IHTSDO and negotiating the purchase of the SNOMED CT® intellectual property from its previous owners, the College of American Pathologists.
IHTSDO
The IHTSDO is registered as a not-for-profit association with headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. The nine charter member countries are: New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States. Membership is open to all countries and there is a provision for sponsored use of SNOMED CT® in developing countries. Several additional countries are currently considering joining the IHTSDO.
SNOMED CT®
SNOMED CT® Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine — Clinical Terms) is the most comprehensive multilingual clinical healthcare terminology in the world. It was developed as an international clinical terminology by the National Health Service in England and the College of American Pathologists in 1999. SNOMED CT® was created by merging SNOMED RT and the United Kingdom's Clinical Terms Version 3 (formerly known as the Read Codes). It has greater depth and coverage of health care than the versions of Clinical Terms (Read Codes) that it replaces.
This website and associated material refers to and includes SNOMED CT®, which is used by permission of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). All rights reserved. SNOMED CT® was originally created by the College of American Pathologists."SNOMED" and "SNOMED CT" are registered trademarks of the IHTSDO.
For matters relating to SNOMED CT®, please contact us at the National Release Centre by e-mail: SNOMED_CT@nzhis.govt.nz
Further information including a description of the IHTSDO’s goals, open and participatory governance process, uniform licencing terms, other base information and answers to FAQs are available at the IHTSDO website: http://www.ihtsdo.org
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