Welcome to the Substances Project

Space!

This is a landing page to explain what this project is about. Most of the specific information about the group is kept in another Confluence space: Drugs Substance Project - Directory.

The purpose of the Substances Project Group is to contribute to and help progress specific deliverables within the Substances Hierarchy Project.Substances Project has a Working Group (WG), which is a closed group.

Purpose

The Substances Hierarchy Project aims to deliver a plan to update to substances content and provide a robust concept model for substance representation.

Project group members are requested to:

• Review documents and provide comments.
• Review the topics on the Discussions page and respond as appropriate.
• Raise general questions, comments, and corrections.

Scope

The scope of the project is to

1. Provide a re-design of Substances hierarchy and document a review of previous SNOMED CT substances work.

2. Provide a strategy and a project plan for the implementation of the re-designed hierarchy hierarchy.
3. Implement the re-designed hierarchy on content.
4. Write SNOMED CT Editorial Guidelines on the Substances hierarchy.

Chairs

Phuong Skovgaard and Emma Melhuish

Meetings

The Working Group meets regularly using this directory: Meeting Information - Substance Hierarchy.

Face to Face

The Substances Project Working Group will meet during the SNOMED International Business Meeting in London in April . 2017. Due to space limitations it will be closed to observers.

http://www.snomed.org/participate/attend-ihtsdo-events/