Date

20250607

Document Version

1.0

Release Status


  

  










Page At A Glance


Introduction

SNOMED CT terminology provides a common language that enables a consistent way of indexing, storing, retrieving, and aggregating clinical data across specialties and sites of care.

The International Health Terminology Standards Development organisation (IHTSDO®), trading as SNOMED International, maintains the SNOMED CT technical design, the content architecture, the SNOMED CT content (includes the concepts table, the descriptions table, the relationships table, a history table, and ICD mappings), and related technical documentation.

The SNOMED CT Switzerland Extension - packages these components for release every December and July, to be used with the latest SNOMED CT International Edition release.

The same content can be viewed online using the SNOMED CT browser.


Background

This document provides a summarized description of the content changes included in the June 2025 Production release of the SNOMED Clinical Terms® Managed Service Switzerland Extension package.

It will also include technical notes detailing the known issues which have been identified (should any of these exist). These are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the fix has been discussed and agreed, but has yet to be implemented.

This Switzerland Extension package is dependent upon, and should therefore be consumed in conjunction with, the SNOMED CT® May 2025 International Edition release.

Scope

This document is written for the purpose described above and is not intended to provide details of the technical specifications for SNOMED CT or encompass every change made during the release.


Content Development Activity

Summary

Content from the SNOMED CT® May 2025 International Edition release has been included, alongside additional components for use in Switzerland. 

This extension contains concepts, relationships and reference sets for healthcare professionals. 

New and Updated Content

This release contains translations from the Common French and Common German translations, as well as Italian translations produced by the Swiss NRC (eHealth Suisse).

Descriptions Overview

Hierarchy

New

Changed

Inactivated

Reactivated

New Inactive

New with New Concept

Changed Inactive

Total Active

Total

Body structure (body structure)

861

1

25

0

0

0

0

12095

12135

Clinical finding (finding)

45958

0

537

0

0

9

0

222444

227977

Environment or geographical location (environment / location)

9

0

1

0

0

0

0

2224

2242

Event (event)

191

0

1

0

0

0

0

3814

3881

Observable entity (observable entity)

3409

0

11

0

0

4

0

5850

5895

Organism (organism)

2579

0

37

0

0

9

0

47283

47469

Pharmaceutical / biologic product (product)

56

0

5

0

0

0

0

10663

12736

Physical force (physical force)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

108

110

Physical object (physical object)

300

0

1

0

0

0

0

4263

4275

Procedure (procedure)

18600

0

222

0

0

0

0

54645

56123

Qualifier value (qualifier value)

200

0

10

0

0

0

0

5181

5274

Record artifact (record artifact)

30

0

0

0

0

0

0

276

308

SNOMED CT Concept (SNOMED RT+CTV3)

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

3

3

SNOMED CT Model Component (metadata)

6

0

0

0

0

0

0

156

495

Situation with explicit context (situation)

678

0

74

0

0

0

0

4644

4873

Social context (social concept)

26

0

12

0

0

0

0

1394

1446

Special concept (special concept)

2

0

0

0

0

0

0

580

605

Specimen (specimen)

106

0

0

0

0

0

0

1955

2106

Staging and scales (staging scale)

19

0

1

0

0

0

0

347

984

Substance (substance)

4436

0

41

0

0

2

0

18931

20236

Total

77466

1

978

0

0

24

0

396856

409173


Descriptions by Language

Language

New

Changed

Inactivated

Reactivated

New Inactive

New with New Concept

Changed Inactive

Total Active

Total

Text Defn - de

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

2

Subtotal

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

2

Description - de

14824

0

824

0

0

22

0

78212

80917

Description - en

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

42

42

Description - it

7947

0

59

0

0

1

0

16643

16774

Description - fr

54695

1

95

0

0

1

0

301959

311440

Total

77466

1

978

0

0

24

0

396856

409173


Technical notes

Known Issues

Known Issues are content or technical issues where the root cause is understood, and the resolution has been discussed and agreed but has yet to be implemented.  This can be due to a number of reasons, from lack of capacity within the current editing cycle, to the risk of impact to the stability of SNOMED CT if the fix were to be deployed at that stage in the Product lifecycle.  

For the SNOMED CT Managed Service - Switzerland Extension Release, the following Known Issues were identified, and agreed to be resolved in the next editing cycle:

Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues are those where the resolution has been discussed and agreed, and has been implemented in time for this release. 

For the SNOMED CT Managed Service - Switzerland Extension Release, the following Issues were Resolved: 



 




Approvals


Final Version

Date

Approver

Comments

1.0

 

Pero GrgicApproved



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Draft Amendment History


Version

Date

Editor

Comments

0.1

 

Andrew AtkinsonInitial draft created

0.2

 

Leong Hui WongDraft updated
1.0

 

Pero GrgicFinal version