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.
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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."
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