SNOMED CT Managed Service - Ireland Extension PRODUCTION Release Notes - April 2024

SNOMED CT Managed Service - Ireland Extension PRODUCTION Release Notes - April 2024



Date

20240421

Document Version

1.0

Release Status

PRODUCTION

  

  





 Introduction

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 organisation (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 SNOMED CT Irish Extension - packages these components for release every April and October, to be used with the latest SNOMED CT International Edition release.

The same content can be viewed online using the SNOMED CT browser, and eHealth Ireland website



2 Background

This document provides a summarized description of the content changes included in the April 2024 Production release of the SNOMED Clinical Terms® Managed Service Ireland Extension package.

It will also include technical notes detailing the known issues which have been identified (should any of these exist). These are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the fix has been discussed and agreed, but has yet to be implemented.

This Ireland Extension package is dependent upon, and should therefore be consumed in conjunction with the SNOMED CT® March 2024 International Edition release.

2.1 Scope

This document is written for the purpose described above and is not intended to provide details of the technical specifications for SNOMED CT or encompass every change made during the release.



3 Content Development Activity

3.1 Summary

Content from the SNOMED CT® March 2024 International Edition release has been included, alongside additional components for use in Ireland. 

This extension contains concepts, relationships and reference sets for healthcare professionals. 

3.2 New and Updated Content

New content in this release:

This is the 9th SNOMED CT Irish Edition Production release.

The National Drug Extension continues to be developed. This includes content development across the SNOMED International Drug Model and the SNOMED National Extension Model.



As an active process please note that a high volume of content in the ‘Pharmaceutical / biologic product (product)’ and ‘Qualifier Value (qualifier value)’ hierarchies is expected to be published across a number of releases. Please note that while these initial publications are ongoing, content in relation to the drug extension should be considered partial subset of medicines available for use in Ireland, and not ready for implementation. Release notes will be updated to notify users when medicinal product content has reached stabilisation and maintenance.





IE National Drug Extension – April 2024

 

 

 

New Concepts

Changed Concepts

373873005

Pharmaceutical / biologic product (product)

(product)

7752

331

362981000

Qualifier value (qualifier value)

(qualifier value)

1669

0

New and updated content

Concept statistics

The SNOMED Irish National Release Centre published 156 new concepts, and these are available in the Irish Extension April 2024 release.

Table 1. New concepts in the Irish Edition October release

3 new refsets were developed 





Refset Name

Number of new concepts

Number of inactivations

Acute Floor refset Allergies

1358

0

Acute Floor refset Ireland: Diagnosis

1285

10

Death Register

1740

0





New Authoring by Irish NRC

Refset name

New concept name authored and released in April 2024 & ID

New synonym of concept name & ID in April 2024 release

Changed synonym of concept name & ID in April 2024 release

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis

Poisoning caused by methylenedioxymethamphetamine (disorder)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis

Toxic effect of ingestion of button battery (disorder)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis



Poisoning caused by ecstasy



Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis



Poisoning caused by ingestion of jequirity seed



Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis

Poisoning caused by quetiapine (disorder)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Alcohol poisoning

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Foxglove poisoning

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Mercury poisoning

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Mushroom poisoning

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Poison hemlock poisoning

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Closed Lisfranc fracture dislocation

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Costochondritis

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Diphtheria

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Henoch-Schonlein purpura

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Interstitial nephritis

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Mallet thumb

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Paracetamol overdose

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Thoracic aortic aneurysm with perforation

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Trigger finger

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Trigger thumb

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Fracture of pubic ramus

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Hereditary nephrogenic diabetes insipidus

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Diagnosis





Type 1 respiratory failure

Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to alirocumab (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to bempedoic acid (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to evolocumab (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to ezetimibe (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to inclisiran (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to insecticide (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to methylisothiazolinone (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 inhibitor (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to rivaroxaban (finding)





Acute Floor Refset Ireland Allergies

Allergy to sesame seed (finding)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Hospital employee (occupation)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Residential care facility (environment)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Facility email address (observable entity)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Designated healthcare representative (person)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Medical card status (observable entity)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Resident name (observable entity)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland personal identification number (observable entity)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

History of healthcare associated infectious disease (situation)





National Transfer Document and Patient Profile refset

Decolonisation of infection procedure (procedure)







Reference Set changes

Refset name

Number of new additional concepts, (Existing and newly authored)

Number of inactivation's in refset

Adult oncology daycare nursing discharge reference  set

0

0

Antimicrobial stewardship Performance Indicator Measurement System, (APIMS)

0

0

Breast check screening  

0

3

Chronic Disease Management

0

0

Coronavirus

0

0

Dentistry

0

3

Epilepsy

0

0

eservices

0

0

Gynecology Discharge Summary

0

0

Ireland Nursing and Midwifery Quality Care Metrics Dataset

0

0

Ireland National transfer residential facilities for older person

12

1

Irish National Early Warning System Score reference set

0

0

Lymphoedema Reference set

0

0

Make every contact count

0

0

National Ambulance Service

70

3

Patient Flow Database

0

0

Public health nurse clinical caseload dataset 

0

0

Safeguarding Ireland

0

0

National Rehabilitation Hospital Ireland allergy nature of reaction

0

0

Health Status Questionnaire Ireland

0

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