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Dear Members, 

The February 2021 Concrete Domains Tech Preview release of the SNOMED CT® International Edition has now been available for a month.

If you are intending to review the package, we would be grateful if you could aim to provide the feedback as soon as possible in advance of the final deadline of 15th April 2021.


If you have any questions regarding the Tech Preview, please see the original communication, read the reminder below, or contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org with “February 2021 Concrete Domains Tech Preview release question” in the subject line.

The Tech Preview release package is distributed for evaluation purposes only. It must not be used in production clinical systems or in clinical settings, or distributed to Affiliate Licensees or any third parties at this time.  

All files distributed to SNOMED International Members for the February 2021 Tech Preview Release are available from the  “February 2021 v0.1 *TECH PREVIEW ONLY*” version in the “SNOMED CT International Edition” project, which can be found on the “SNOMED Releases” page in MLDS, accessed here (please ensure that you login to MLDS first): 

          https://mlds.ihtsdotools.org/#/ihtsdoReleases

The SNOMED CT Tech Preview release contains SNOMED CT files in Release Format 2 (RF2) only, distributed in a zipped file archive (the Release Notes are located separately in the same repository as normal):

    • xSnomedCT_InternationalRF2_ConcreteDomainsTechPreview_20210201T120000Z.zip

A separate instance of the SNOMED CT Browser has been created in order to enable effective review of the new changes - this can be accessed here:

The SNOMED CT Tech Preview Release Notes can also be accessed online:

https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/SNOMED+CT+Concrete+Domains+Tech+Preview+package+Release+Notes+-+February+2021

Please see the "Concrete Domains and Numeric Representation” section of the Early Visibility confluence page, to remind yourselves of all of schedule of the upcoming changes in this release: 

https://confluence.ihtsdotools.org/display/RMT/July+2021+Early+Visibility+Release+Notice+-+Planned+changes+to+upcoming+SNOMED+International+Release+packages

If you have any questions about the February 2021 Concrete Domains Tech Preview release, or have difficulties downloading this file, please contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org with “February 2021 Concrete Domains Tech Preview release question” in the subject line. 


Thanks very much for all of your help, we really appreciate all of your feedback.

Kind regards

Andrew Atkinson  |  Release Manager 

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