2025-03-13: DEUSG Virtual

Opening

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@Shane Byrnes 

Welcome & Notification of Recording

House Keeping

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@Shane Byrnes 

@Alejandro Lopez Osornio 

Group Feedback on Alternating time zones proposal: (World Time Buddy)

• March 13th: 11am UTC (online)

• April 9th: 1.30pm CEST / 11.30am UTC (online & in person)

• May: 10pm UTC (online)

• June: 11am UTC (online)

• July: 10pm UTC (online)

Meeting Notes:

• Alternating timelines to be trialed in the months ahead.

Discussion Forum

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@Shane Byrnes 

Discussion Forum has been set up.

• To support community sharing of queries and updates between meetings.

• Opportunity for community knowledge sharing on implementation. 

• Use 'DEUSG' for Category.

• Select 'Watch' on the Discussion Forum page to keep up to date.

Open

Of Interest: SNOMED adding forum platform later this year ('Discourse')

Meeting Notes:

• Nicki will post Patch strength briefing notes to the discussion forum to allow members to share further feedback. 

Current status of the Drug Model and proposals for modifications

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@Matt Cordell / @Dion McMurtrie 

@Linda Bird  / @Guillermo Reynoso 

Continuation of Agenda Item from 20th Feb:

• Australia Presentation

• Follow on Information from Canada (use-cases)

• Feedback to Irelands Proposal

  • How would approach manage salts in biosimilars or differences in SmPC documentation. 

• Group Discussion/Comments on three proposals

Meeting Notes:

• Group discussion Australia's and Canada's presentations: covering strength representation, subsumption of Clinical Drugs, and additional properties

Substances - Concepts in Extensions

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@Alejandro Lopez Osornio

• Work underway to collate list across extensions (MS and non-MS)

Meeting Notes:

• Thanks to all members who submitted lists. 

Substances - authoring for medicines under evaluation (EMA)

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@Shane Byrnes 

@Alejandro Lopez Osornio 

Meeting Notes:

• No Update

Group discussion - Forum queries

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All

Feedback on forum questions:

• RxNorm - SNOMED Alignment

Meeting Notes:

• Item deferred to April meeting

Oslo Preparation

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@Shane Byrnes 

Seeking proposals for agenda items in Oslo

Meeting Notes:

• Members to reach out to Alejandro and Shane to propose topics for April meetings

General Community Updates

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@Alejandro Lopez Osornio @Shane Byrnes 

Open Briefing Note

Inactivation of Active Duplicate Descriptions in the Same Hierarchy

• Relevant to Drug Modelling: basic dose form etc.

• Link to Briefing Note on Confluence HERE

• Feedback by 31st March 2025 to Maria Braithwaite via info@snomed.org

Expo 2025 - Call for Abstracts is Open

• SNOMED CT Expo | SNOMED International

• Call for abstracts is open until 24th April 2025

• Outcome of submissions by 31st May 2025

• Call open for Session Presentations, 10min Lightening Talks, or ePosters

AOB

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