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  • Drugs (pharmaceuticals) (structural) 17,000 concepts currently
    • Required to provide SNOMED CT with the source data for representation of drugs, also required as the target for attribute values to model other content in SNOMED CT
    • Both strategic and Member-led priority
  • Substances (structural) 26,000 concepts currently
    • Required to act as the target of attribute vales for drugs and allergies
    • Known area of inaccuracy within the terminology
    • Aim is to ensure consistency and accuracy through alignment with existing external classifications
  • Devices (structural) 14,000 device concepts (+ 14,500 physical objects)
    • Required to act as the target of attribute vales for Procedures, Situations and Clinical Findings
    • Increasing global emphasis on Medical Devices representation through, for example, UDI (Universal Device Identifier) developments
  • Anatomy (structural) 17,500 concepts currently
    • Required for the attribute value target of procedures, findings, situations and observables, affects almost all content in SNOMED CT
    • Alignment of SNOMED CT content to FMA
    • Reengineering the anatomy hierarchy to ensure correct inheritance
  • Observable Entity (fundamental) 8,500 concepts currently
    • Required to support recording and transmission of clinical observations unambiguously
    • Currently a primitive hierarchy
    • Provides the model for specifying functioning and laboratory content
  • Situations (reputational) 4,000 concepts
    • Required work to differentiate in existing hierarchy between procedure with context and observation results content
    • Known area of quality issues in a high use content area Requires separation of content into procedures with content and observation results
  • Allergy project (fundamental)
    • Required for successful clinically safe implementation of SNOMED CT and to support decision support applications
    • Updating of editorial guidance and content alignment with solution for findings, substances,
  • Organisms (structural) – 30,000 concepts
    • Updating and redesign of existing organism content
    • Implementation of new concept model for organism representation
    • Required for future work on laboratory medicine, infectious disease and genetics
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