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| Items | Proposed improvement | Planned Release date (*this is provisional only and is subject to change) | |||||
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| 1 | LOINC timeline changes - please refer to Roadmap link here LOINC | July 2018 and potentially other future releases. | |||||
| 2 | Revision of IS A relationships for anatomy concepts The new anatomy concept model has implemented the new Description Logic features, e.g. reflective and transitive property, general concept axioms, for consistent logical modeling. However, the new model cannot be implemented in production because these DL features currently are not available in production. The implementation of them will depend on the enhanced logic profile for SNOMED CT which is under development by the Modeling AG. Yet, the inferred IS A relationship from the OWL anatomy ontology can be reviewed and implemented in the production. This will utilise the outcomes of the new anatomy model as well as evaluate the design of the new model. In particular, it is important to review the changes of IS-A relationships in anatomy for quality assurance and minimise impact to other hierarchies, such as disorders, procedures, observables, situations etc. The first subject area for revision is the sub-hierarchy of skin structure. The majority changes have been made in the January 2018 release. The rest will be completed in July 2018 releaseand following releases. For July 2018 release, the The subject area for revision of IS A relationships will be determined and updated in the following confluence page. | July 2018 International Edition | |||||
| 3 | Summary of Drugs changes New hierarchies 766940004 | Role (role) and subhierarchy 766941000 | Therapeutic role (role) created with additional subtypes to be added in future releases New semantic tags (role) Attribute types New attributes created:
Grouper concepts representing disposition, intended site, and/or structure Grouper concepts representing disposition, intended site, and/or structure sufficiently defined by modeling to proximal primitive concept, adding defining attributes, and updating descriptions per editorial guidelines (n≈550). New high level grouper concepts created as an incremental improvement with additional subtypes to be added in future releases:
Product role concepts Concepts representing product role relocated as stated descendants of 763087004 | Medicinal product categorized by role (product) with definition status = primitive and attributes inactivated (n≈ 400) For further details see Briefing Note Use of Additional Axiom Functionality and Remodeling Product Roles Medicinal product (MP) concepts - MP-containing concepts sufficiently defined by modeling to proximal primitive concept, adding defining attributes, and updating descriptions per editorial guidelines (n≈ 3750). Includes the following attributes:
Medicinal product form (MPF) concepts - MPF-containing concepts sufficiently defined by modeling to proximal primitive concept, adding defining attributes, and updating descriptions per editorial guidelines (n≈2100). Includes the following attributes:
Clinical drug (CD) concepts - CD-containing precisely concepts sufficiently defined by modeling to proximal primitive concept, adding defining attributes, and updating descriptions per editorial guidelines (n≈ 4850). Includes the following attributes:
Documentation Notification for Briefing Notes, Editorial Guidelines, and other documentation updates are posted on the project group website as they become available; see Drug Model Working Group - Directory for details Briefing Briefing note - Use of Additional Axiom Functionality and Remodeling Product Roles.pdf | July 2018 International Edition | |||||
| 4 | Summary of Substances Changes Top Level Dietary subhierarchy. To remove context of use from the substance concepts and manage the situation where substances can be both a pharmaceutical ingredient and a foodstuff 80 substances(n≈80) that had a tag of “- dietary” in the Fully Specified Name (FSN) and the Preferred Term (PT) were inactivated. Replacement concepts concept withoutwithout "-dietary" in the FSN and PT were created. The top level concept "Dietary substance (substance)" has been inactivated and replaced with a new concept "Edible substance (substance)". Radioactive isotope substances. These concepts have been remodelled and the terming normalised to provide consistent representation without the use of carats. Cancer related substance. The subhierarchy has now been removed. Some concept have been inactivated. Some have been moved within the substances hierarchy.Substance groupers including Disposition, Structure and Combined groupers have been remodelled and additional grouper concepts created as required. The inactivation of role groupers in the substances hierarchy has been initiated. Disposition Groupers had been updated, modeled and fully defined in Jan2018 release. Just under 50 additional Disposition concepts have been created in the July 2018 data.
Structural Groupers
Combined Groupers (Structure + Disposition)
The "Is modification" of attribute has been implemented resulting in a to flattening of the substances hierarchy. Role Groupers in the substances hierarchy have been reviewed. In the region of 100 substance Role grouper conceptsRole Groupers
General content updates The "Is modification" of attribute has been implemented (n≈1400) resulting in flattening of the substances hierarchy. Overall 447 new concepts added to the substances hierarchy. Just over 460 substance concepts have been inactivated in the July 2018 SNOMED CT release. Documentation Notification Notification for Briefing Notes, Editorial Guidelines, and other documentation updates are posted on the project group website as they become available; see Project Status Substance Hierarchy for details. | July 2018 International Edition | |||||
| 5 | Internal QA - Situation and Findings Test and procedure status: Inactivated 143 concepts in the Situations and Findings hierarchies with pattern "Test/procedure OFFERED" and "Test/procedure NOT OFFERED" as these represent an administrative status. | July 2018 International Edition | |||||
| 6 | Internal QA - Qualifier Value Inactivation of Agencies and organizations (qualifier value) and subtypes: moved to UK extension i.e. 66 concepts inactivated. | July 2018 International Edition | |||||
| 7 | Replacement of OWL conversion script with a link to the open source directory In January 2017 the original OWL conversion script (a.k.a. the "Spackman OWL script") was removed from the International Edition package, and has since been published as a separate artefact alongside each Release. Because this script does not recognize the two new OWL refsets (see section 3.3.2 of these Release Notes), the Terminology Release Advisory Group has determined that the script should no longer be distributed. Going forward, Release Notes will now include a link to the new open source OWL conversion toolkit that can be found in the following repository (including documentation on its use): https://github.com/IHTSDO/snomed-owl-toolkit Please contact SNOMED International at support@snomed.org if you would like to provide any feedback on ways to extend and improve the new toolkit. | July 2018 International Edition | |||||
| 8 | Deprecation of the Technical Guide Exemplars document from the International Edition release package The Terminology Release Advisory Group has confirmed that there should be no impact from removing this almost entirely static document from the International Edition release package, and hosting it instead in a Confluence Page. From the July 2018 International release then, we will deprecate this file (doc_Icd10MapTechnicalGuideExemplars_[date].xlsx) from the Release package, and instead provide a link in the Release Notes to the new Confluence Page. Please see section 2.4.1.3 of the Release Notes for the relevant link. | July 2018 International Edition | |||||
| 9 | Replacement of the Stated Relationship files with the new OWL Axiom refset files In the January 2019 release, the stated relationship file will be replaced by the OWL Axiom refset files, that will include all logical definitions and other features specified in the SNOMED CT logic profile specification. The stated relationship file will NOT be included in the international release; however, it may still be available on request to support migration to the OWL Axiom refset.
The inferred relationship file will maintain the same format and structure, though it will no longer contain all necessary and sufficient conditions. The inferred relationship file is represented in Necessary Normal Form for distribution of relationships. It is a collection of all the necessary conditions and represents a subset of the full semantics from the 2018 July release and onwards. Most users will benefit from the improvements in the inferred relationships without requiring changes to their existing systems. A set of documentations has been developed to support the Logic Profile Enhancements.
| Jan 2019 International Edition | |||||
| 10 | Summary of Drugs changes MP and MPF containing (Ed Guides and refine exisitng content) MP only (Ed Guides and create new content) MPF only (Ed Guides and create new content) Roles Alpha release planned for August 2018 CD only (Ed Guides and refine exisitng content) CD only gap analysis with selected national extensions Vaccines concept model Ed Guides incl prototyping Vaccines content revision (~ <500 incl MP, MPF and CD) Alpha release 30-SEP if needed | Jan 2019 International Edition | |||||
| 11 | Summary of Substances changes Flattening of Substance hierarchy Regular maintenance of substance hierarchy - Add missing structural parents Regular maintenance of substance hierarchy - Disposition and Structure groupers Review of the remaining existing JIRA tickets for Substance project Review of the existing JIRA tickets for Allergies project Replace Substance concepts with product concepts, where role concepts have been used to define procedures or findings Gap analysis on selected national extensions Substances to support the product Active ingredients not in SNOMED - RxNORM, AMT | Jan 2019 International Edition |
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