Welcome to the Substances Project Group 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.

Purpose

The purpose of the Substances Project Group is to contribute to and help progress specific deliverables within the Substances Hierarchy Project.

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 
  3. Implement the re-designed hierarchy on content

Chairs

Phuong Skovgaard and Emma Melhuish

Meetings

Meeting Information - Substance Hierarchy

Face to Face

The Substances Project Group will meet during the SNOMED International Business Meeting in London in April. 

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