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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®

The purpose of the National Release Centre is to support the implementation of SNOMED CT® within New Zealand.

Responsibilities of the Centre include: consultation and communication, application review and processing, release management, international reporting and the administration of the IHTSDO workbench application which is designed to support national extensions and subset (reference set) development.

For further information about the New Zealand National Release Centre and previous activity reports please refer to the IHTSDO website link: http://www.ihtsdo.org/members/nz00/

IHTSDO


New Zealand is one of nine countries that are Charter Members of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO), established in 2007. This move followed New Zealand’s involvement in assisting the intergovernmental process of designing IHTSDO and purchasing SNOMED CT® intellectual property from its previous owners, the College of American Pathologists.

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. Six more countries have became members of IHTSDO. These are: Cyprus, Estonia, Slovak REpublic, Slovenia Singapore and Spain. Membership is open to all countries and there is a provision for sponsored use of SNOMED CT® in developing countries.

Further information including a description of the IHTSDO’s goals, open and participatory governance process, uniform licensing terms, other base information and answers to FAQs are available at the IHTSDO website: http://www.ihtsdo.org

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.

SNOMED CT® has been endorsed by Health Information Standards Organisation (HISO (2010)) as the clinical terminology to be used across the health and disability sector in NZ. Further information is available at the IT Health Board website: http://www.ithealthboard.health.nz/sites/all/files/SNOMED%20CT%20Endorsement.doc


Page last updated: 13 July 2011


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