Dear IHTSDO Members, 

The Beta release of the July 2016 SNOMED CT® International Edition is now available to IHTSDO Members only, from the MLDS distribution site.

This Beta release provides IHTSDO Member organizations an opportunity to perform a technical evaluation of the core SNOMED CT® files, and to provide feedback to IHTSDO, before the International Edition is distributed to Members on 30th June 2016.  The public release of the International Edition to Affiliate licensees will take place on 31st July 2016.  Please note that this Beta Release should not be distributed to Affiliate Licensees or any third parties before this date.   

When providing feedback, please include as much detail as possible, incorporating references to, or samples of, specific instances of the issue being reported.  The absence of sufficient information to allow IHTSDO to confirm the reported issue may result in no action being taken prior to the Member release.  Feedback on content related issues will be assessed and prioritized by IHTSDO, and a decision will be made as to whether to address any reported content issues for the Member release or as part of a future International Edition release.  Although all feedback will be carefully reviewed, there should be no expectation that any non-technical issues will be addressed prior to the distribution of the Member release.  

Feedback on the Beta release files will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on 17th June 2016 – although IHTSDO Members are urged to submit their findings as early as possible.

All files distributed to IHTSDO Members for the July 2016 International Edition are available from the  “July 2016 v0.1” version in the “Offline & Alpha/Beta versions” section of the “SNOMED CT International Edition” project, which can be found on the “IHTSDO Releases” page in MLDS, accessed here: 

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

The SNOMED CT International Edition contains SNOMED CT files in both Release Format 2 (RF2) and Release Format 1 (RF1), separated into distinct packages. The July 2016 release is distributed in two zipped file archives:

• xSnomedCT_RF2Release_INT_20160731.zip
• xSnomedCT_RF1Release_INT_20160731.zip

If you have any questions about the July 2016 International Edition, or have difficulties downloading this file, please contact IHTSDO at support@ihtsdo.org with “July 2016 International Edition Beta release question” in the subject line.   

Kind regards, 

Andrew Atkinson  |  Release Manager