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Blog from August, 2025

SNOMED International is transitioning to a modern suite of digital tools to support internal collaboration, external knowledge sharing, and its active global community of practice. These changes align with the organization’s goal of improving usability, performance, and access.


The migration includes a shift from how SNOMED International presently uses Confluence to:


  • SNOMED Documents for official SNOMED CT documentation and guides. This new document space is expected to launch in early September.

  • SNOMED Spaces for structured shared spaces (e.g. governance, advisory and clinical groups, etc.) Migration from the existing Confluence environment is scheduled to take place September 9, 2025.

  • SNOMED Forums for community-wide discussions and announcements. SNOMED Forums will soon be available.

  • And these and other tools will now be supported and accessible via a SNOMED International Account Dashboard – A single sign-on approach for SNOMED International users to be automatically logged in, for easy access to SNOMED’s tooling suite, also going live on September 09, 2025.


We will also be migrating all users to new SNOMED International Accounts. Further details will be provided once the migration is complete. Your username will remain the same; however, you will be required to reset your password. To support a smooth transition, please ensure that your existing account is associated with the correct email address. If an update is required, kindly contact techsupport@snomed.org.

This transition will reduce costs, improve content discoverability, and support a more intuitive user experience. The rollout is currently underway and is on track to be completed by Q3 2025. We will continue to keep you informed through these planned communications, including specific dates supporting go live. 


For more information or questions, please contact info@snomed.org.

SNOMED International is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Asia eHealth Information Network (AeHIN), a group of digital health advocates from South and South-East Asia committed to promoting interoperability for better health.

AeHIN, which was founded in 2011, has more than 2,600 members and a presence in 84 countries. Incorporated in Hong Kong, it maintains secretariats in Manila, Bangkok, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. The organization has supported regional capacity-building efforts, including conferences, general meetings, convergence workshops, certification training, webinars on specialized topics and other activities to enable the development and implementation of members’ national digital health strategies.

Over the years, both organisations have collaborated on SNOMED CT education support for the AeHIN general meeting events across Asia. AeHIN was an exhibitor at SNOMED CT Expo 2024 in South Korea and Expo 2019 in Malaysia, where it showcased its work in promoting digital health interoperability across Asia, shared insights on the Network’s advocacy for global standards such as SNOMED CT, and engaged with representatives from various countries and stakeholders interested in promoting interoperable health information systems.

The collaboration commits both parties to educate, promote and guide the safe, accurate and effective exchange of health information to improve healthcare around the world. It enables AeHIN to use SNOMED CT within its Community of Interoperability Labs (COIL) for proof-of-concept use cases, and calls for both organizations to educate Asia-Pacific clinicians, vendors and researchers on SNOMED CT terminology and advocate for its adoption.

Read the news release for more details.

SNOMED International is pleased to welcome Mongolia as the most recent Member to join our global community. 

Mongolia, an East Asian country with a population of 3.5 million, is the 12th Asia Pacific country to join SNOMED International, the not-for-profit organization that owns, administers and develops SNOMED CT. Membership enables the country-wide use of SNOMED CT, a comprehensive, multilingual healthcare terminology created for use by healthcare professionals that enables the care of individuals to be captured in electronic health records, facilitating information sharing, decision support and analytics for safe and effective health information exchange.

Mongolia currently uses some international health data standards, such as ICD10 and DICOM, to support data exchange across systems. With a commitment to strengthen clinical information exchange by implementing SNOMED CT, the country will make even greater strides toward enabling interoperability.

“Embracing SNOMED CT is a vital step towards a unified, accurate, and efficient healthcare system,” says Myagmarulzii Enkhbaatar, Head of Digital Development, Health Data Division, Ministry of Health in Mongolia. “By integrating this comprehensive clinical terminology, we pave the way for better patient outcomes, seamless data exchange, and empowered clinical decision-making. Together, we build a healthier future."

Read the release here.