SNOMED CT Managed Service - Norway Extension Release Notes - October 2021
Date | 20211015 |
Document Version | 1.0 |
Release Status | PRODUCTION |
Introduction
The Norwegian Directorate of eHealth provides SNOMED CT® terminologies both in Bokmål and Nynorsk language reference sets for digital health solutions in Norway. SNOMED CT terminology provides a common language that enables a consistent way of indexing, storing, retrieving, and aggregating clinical data across specialties and sites of care.
The International Health Terminology Standards Development organization (IHTSDO®), trading as SNOMED International maintains the SNOMED CT technical design, the content architecture, the SNOMED CT content (includes the concepts table, the descriptions table, the relationships table, a history table, and ICD mappings), and related technical documentation.
The same content can be viewed online using the SNOMED CT browser and it can be easily deployed via the free, open source SNOMED CT terminology server Snowstorm from SNOMED International.
Background
This document provides a summarized description of the content changes included in the October 2021 release of the SNOMED Clinical Terms® Managed Service Norway Extension package. This Norway Extension package is dependent upon, and therefore should be consumed in conjunction with the SNOMED CT® July 2021 International Edition release.
Scope
This document is written to give a summary and is not intended to provide specific details of the technical specifications for SNOMED CT or encompass every change made during the release.
Content Development Activity
This release contains translation corrections and improvements to existing content as well as minor technical corrections made as a result of upgrading the extension to use the SNOMED CT® July 2020 International Edition release.
Summary
Semantic Tag | New Concepts | New Descriptions |
(body structure) | 238 | 15233 |
(finding) | 446 | 2843 |
(environment / location) | 0 | 3 |
(event) | 0 | 3 |
(observable entity) | 133 | 484 |
(organism) | 0 | 1 |
(product) | 0 | 5 |
(physical force) | 0 | 116 |
(physical object) | 4 | 20 |
(procedure) | 733 | 2637 |
(qualifier value) | 288 | 1230 |
(record artifact) | 0 | 1 |
(SNOMED RT+CTV3) | 0 | 0 |
(metadata) | 27 | 139 |
(situation) | 93 | 318 |
(social concept) | 8 | 73 |
(special concept) | 0 | 1 |
(specimen) | 0 | 4 |
(staging scale) | 6 | 22 |
(substance) | 203 | 638 |
2179 | 23771 |
Known Issues
Content
Please note this release contains some minor conventional errors that will be worked on for the next release.
Technical
Known Issues are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the resolution has been discussed and agreed but has yet to be implemented. This can be due to a number of reasons, from lack of capacity within the current editing cycle, to the risk of impact to the stability of SNOMED CT if the fix were to be deployed at that stage in the Product lifecycle.
The following known issues were identified, and agreed to be resolved in the next editing cycle:
Resolved Issues
New Relationship Concrete Values files
Please be aware that the following new files have been added to the Norway Extension Release package, representing the new Concrete Domains content being introduced in this editing cycle, in line with the related changes to the International Edition Release:
sct2_RelationshipConcreteValues_Delta_NO1000202_20211015.txt
sct2_RelationshipConcreteValues_Snapshot_NO1000202_20211015.txt
sct2_RelationshipConcreteValues_Full_NO1000202_20211015.txt
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