Abstract submission deadline extended to May 2
What's better than attending an exciting conference? Being part of it! Submit an abstract for an oral presentation or an e-poster to see your name on the program at this year's SNOMED CT Expo. In addition to being an excellent professional development opportunity, you'll be a part of the ever-expanding SNOMED CT global community, which thrives when users share their knowledge and expertise.
Check out snomedexpo.org for the guidelines and submit yours by May 2
The details
Submissions must focus on using the clinical terminology in a product, service or research context across one of the four program streams:
- Enhancing Clinical Practice and Outcomes
- Terminology Leading Practices
- Demonstrating Implementation Excellence
- Advances in Research and Innovation
Key dates
- New submission deadline: May 2, 2023
- Submitters notified: May 29, 2023
- Conference: October 26-27, 2023
SNOMED International and the International Diet Dysphagia Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) have signed an agreement to incorporate IDDSI Framework v2.0 content into SNOMED CT to enable use in electronic health records globally.
Peter Lam, IDDSI Chair, expressed that, “The agreement with SNOMED is another exciting and positive step to meeting IDDSI's goal of improving the safety of people of all ages, all cultures, and in all care settings, who are living with dysphagia.”
In effect since mid-September 2022, the agreement has been driven by community requests as well as by the need identified by the SNOMED International Nutrition Care Process Terminology (NCPT) Clinical Project Group to include IDDSI Framework v2.0 content in order to facilitate the inclusion of NCPT in SNOMED CT.
Content will be created for each framework level consistent with the IDDSI standard terminology and definitions subject to SNOMED CT editorial guidance, while additional content will be added to facilitate recording the use of the framework and diet scale together with related findings and interventions. The content will be included in SNOMED CT International Edition monthly releases as the IDDSI Framework v2.0 related content is incorporated into the clinical terminology.
In the UK, in response to the Mental Health Taskforce, there was a drive to make sure people experiencing first-episode psychosis have timely access to evidence-based care. The NCCMH (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health) developed the guidance documents to support this, commissioned by NHS England. These include then following:
- Implementing the EIP access and waiting time standard: guidance (PDF) describes in detail how commissioners and providers can implement the pathway for EIP services.
- Implementing the early intervention access and waiting time standard: resources (PDF) accompanies the Guidance, providing commissioners and providers with helpful resources to support the implementation.
- EIP recording and reporting on NICE-recommended interventions (PDF) (updated November 2022) provides guidance for services delivering care to people experiencing a first episode of psychosis. It describes how to record and report on interventions and outcomes using SNOMED codes, and how to submit the data to NHS Digital as part of the Mental Health Services Data Set (MHSDS).
The use of SNOMED CT in clinical pathways is an important step forwards to support delivery of safe, high quality care, and SNOMED CT coding will enable additional analytical functionality to be available to support clinicians in the future.
The weblink is as follows:
As you will be aware, historically we have had a pathology and laboratory medicine group which unfortunately has been inactive for the last few years. We have now identified new clinical leads for the group, and are looking to relaunch the group. The first meeting will be on 24th, March 2022 at 20:00 UTC. Details of the meeting and Zoom details are available on the groups Confluence site - Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Clinical Reference Group. We are looking at creating two additional subgroups to the main group, these will be focused on "surgical pathology workflow" and "laboratory data management and interoperability". Both of these topics are areas of interest for multiple members, and we look forward to your participation. We would encourage Member Forum representatives to share details of these groups to their wider clinical networks to ensure we have the best possible engagement to ensure the success of the groups
Definitely have a read, this is a very informative article, on a key clinical area . . .
Background: Kidney biopsy registries all over the world benefit research, teaching and health policy. Comparison, aggregation and exchange of data is however greatly dependent on how registration and coding of kidney biopsy diagnoses are performed. This paper gives an overview over kidney biopsy registries, explores how these registries code kidney disease and identifies needs for improvement of coding practice.
Conclusions: There were large gaps in the global coverage of kidney biopsy registries. Limited use of international coding systems among existing registries hampers interoperability and exchange of data. The study underlines that the use of a common and uniform coding system is necessary to fully realize the potential of kidney biopsy registries.
https://bmcnephrol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12882-021-02365-3
Dr. Dai Evans presents: "SNOMED CT implementation in UK general practice (England): A user’s perspective"
The implementation of SNOMED CT within GP clinical systems across England has been underway for a couple of years. This involved a migration from the existing legacy coding systems of Read version 2 and Clinical Terms Version 3 (CTV3) to SNOMED CT. The implications of this implementation for both everyday general practice and national organisations reliant upon data from primary care have been varied. During this session, Dai will explore the transition and impact over the last few years including impact of code mapping, what practices need to do to maintain their the integrity and reliability of their data and will detail his work developing comprehensive data specifications in SNOMED CT, along with tips on what to expect if undertaking similar work.
For further details and registration - https://bit.ly/3wT4PiD
There was a very interesting meeting of the Nursing Clinical Reference Group on 18 November with new attendees and a number of topics discussed - the recording is available on the Nursing CRG area.
We agreed that we would have our next call in December. We agreed 16 December but now need to amend the date.
The next meeting of the Nursing CRG will now be on Tuesday 15th December, 2100 - 2200 UTC. (note this slightly later time is only for this meeting). The agenda and dial in details will be available on the Nursing CRG area of confluence
This is a reminder that we have a meeting of the Nursing CRG on 18 November at 2000 UTC.
We want to focus discussion on implementation of SNOMED CT and how nurses are working with their EHRs, and identifying use cases that you have nationally or locally, along with any issues/questions that are being raised. This will enable the group to explore key areas of work which the group can focus on going forward.
And we will provide an update on SNOMED International work relevant to nursing, including our work with ICN to incorporate ICNP into SNOMED CT.
We look forward to 'seeing' everyone on 18 November 2020 at 2000 UTC and meanwhile please let us know if you have any discussion points you would like to raise.
The agenda can be found at 2020-11-18- Nursing CRG Meeting and here are dial in details as well.
Jane Millar, Collaboration and Clinical Engagement Lead
Dear all,
We are hosting a meeting of the Genomics and Precision Medicine CRG Meeting on the 2nd December 2020 at 17:00 UTC.
The focus of the meeting will be to start the discussion on how SNOMED CT can best support the future implementation of Precision Medicine. SNOMED International is looking to develop a high level descriptive document that will inform the community on the use of SNOMED CT to meet this use case. The meeting will provide background detail, and then will look to the audience to participate in discussion.
We look forward to receiving your comments and thoughts,
Regards,
Ian Green
Dear all,
We are hosting a 90 minute clinical webinar next Wednesday (2nd September 2020) at 19:00 UTC.
Presenters:
Monica Jones
Chief Data Officer HDRUK, Hub for cancer (DATA-CAN)
Topic: COVID and cancer - The use of real time data and open standards
Daniel Karlsson and Keng-Ling Wallin
Socialstyrelsen (The National Board of Health and Welfare, Sweden)
Topic: Clinical engagement in Sweden
The webinar will be hosted on Zoom - please click the link below to register:
https://snomed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_betyaXHhShKjKqfsFfCeBg
A recording of the webinar will be made available after the event, along with copies of the presentations.
We look forward to your attendance.
Kind regards,
Ian Green
Dear all,
We are hosting a clinical webinar on the 5th, August 2020 at 19:00 UTC. The webinar will last 90 minutes, and the presenters will be will be Ian McNicoll Co-Chair, openEHR Foundation and Dr Peter Hendler, SNOMED International Clinical Engagement Lead, Americas.
The focus of the presentations are the clinical application of SNOMED CT, focusing specifically on it's use in openEHR and the use of SNOMED CT to support clinical analytics using COVID-19 as an example use case
The webinar will be hosted on Zoom - https://snomed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FOueDULxQC-orPw3eFg2pA
Details of the webinar can be found at: 2020-08-05 - Clinical Webinar
A recording of the webinar will be made available after the event, along with copies of the presentations.
We look forward to your attendance.
kind regards,
Ian Green
Dear all,
We are hosting a clinical webinar on the 1st, July 2020 at 19:00 UTC. The webinar will last 90 minutes, and the presenters will be will be Riki Merrick, Lead terminologist, Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) and Dr Wai Keong Wong, Chief Research Information Officer, Consultant Haematologist, University College London Hospital.
The focus of the presentations are the clinical application of SNOMED CT, focusing specifically on it's use in public health and clinical research, and will draw upon the implementation experiences of both presenters
The webinar will be hosted on Zoom - https://snomed.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S6EDDGZVQTqOcWnXLsLEiA
Details of the webinar can be found at: 2020-07-01 - Clinical Webinar
A recording of the webinar will be made available after the event, along with copies of the presentations.
We look forward to your attendance.
kind regards,
Ian Green
Dear all,
We are hosting a clinical webinar on the 3rd, June 2020 at 19:00 UTC. The webinar will last 90 minutes, and the presenters will be will be Dr.Karen Horridge (Disability Paediatrician - Sunderland & Chair, British Academy of Childhood Disability) and Srdan Prodanovic (Owner of ezDerm)
The focus of the presentations are the clinical application of SNOMED CT and draw upon the implementation experiences of both presenters
The webinar will be hosted on Zoom - https://snomed.zoom.us/j/8853010974
Details of the webinar can be found at: 2020-06-03 - Clinical Webinar.
A recording of the webinar will be made available after the event, along with copies of the presentations.
We look forward to your attendance.
kind regards,
Ian Green
Dear all,
We are hosting a clinical webinar on the 6th, May 2020 at 19:00 UTC. The webinar will last 90 minutes, and the presenters will be will be Dr.Charles Gutteridge and Sophie Williams.
The focus of the presentations are the clinical experiences of using SNOMED CT for clinical analytics across a population and within large hospital provider
The webinar will be hosted on Zoom - https://snomed.zoom.us/j/8853010974
Details of the call can be found at: 2020-05-06 - Clinical Webinar
We look forward to your attendance.
kind regards,
Ian Green
Dear all,
The meeting scheduled for the 29th, April 2020 at 02:00 UTC has been rescheduled and the agenda changed. The meeting will now take place at 16:00 UTC on 29th, April 2020. The updated agenda can be found here - 2020-04-29 - Cancer Synoptic Reporting Project Group Meeting. The focus of the meeting will be to continue to discuss and resolve editorial issues related to the SNOMED CT content to support Cancer Synoptic Reporting.
We will look to schedule a later session to provide the SNOMED Community of Practice an update on the Cancer Synoptic Reporting project. Details of future meetings will be published on this blog site.
kind regards,
Ian Green, on behalf of Scott Campbell (Chair, Cancer Synoptic Reporting Project group)