SNOMED INTERNATIONALSTRATEGIC DIRECTION2015-2020

SNOMED International: The global language of healthcare

SNOMED CT is the most comprehensive and precise clinical healthcare terminology in the world; every day helping healthcare professionals to save time, money and lives with its universal, codified, clinical terminology system.

Patients and healthcare professionals benefit from improved health records, clinical decisions and analysis, leading to higher quality, consistency and safety in healthcare delivery.

First released in 2002, SNOMED CT has grown in maturity and since 2007 has been owned and maintained by SNOMED International, the trading name of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO). SNOMED International is a not for profit association that owns and maintains SNOMED CT as a product and provides services to support in excess of its member countries.

Our MissionSNOMED International produces and enhances the vocabulary that enables the clear exchange of health information for all.

COORDINATION AND JOINT

DEVELOPMENT WITH RELATED STANDARDS

DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS

INCLUSIVE INVOLVEMENT OF DIVERSE CLINICAL

GROUPS AND MEDICAL INFORMATICS

EXPERTS.

MINIMAL BARRIERS TO ADOPTION AND

USE.

QUALITY FOCUSED CONTENT DEVELOPMENT

WITH ADHERENCE TO STRICT EDITORIAL

RULES.

OUR VISION

BY 2020 CLINICAL TERMINOLOGIES WILL BE USED GLOBALLY, WHICH WILL RESULT IN BETTER HEALTH, SUPPORTED BY ONE LANGUAGE OF HEALTH.

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A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROCESS THAT IS OPEN

TO PUBLIC SCRUTINY AND VENDOR INPUT.

1 EXPERTS IN HEALTH TERMINOLOGY

5 OPEN AND ACCOUNTABLE

4 CLOSEST TO CUSTOMERS

3 RIGOROUS FOCUS ON QUALITY

2 SUCCESS THROUGH COLLABORATION

MEMBER COUNTRIES• SNOMED CT enables broad uses of

information, including health system management, clinical program management, public health, and research.

• The richness of the information allows for proactive management of resources in the delivery of health care.

• Terminology use benefits the entire health system – savings of approximately 5% of total health care costs.

PATIENTS• SNOMED CT decreases the need to repeat

health history.

• It plays an important part in medication reconciliation.

• Patients can be more proactive in managing their own health.

VENDORS• SNOMED CT provides the potential for

vendors to enable robust clinical decision support functionality, leading to market differentiation.

• It can be implemented once and marketed on a global scale.

• The standard is continuously maintained and integrates well with other key health IT standards.

PROVIDERS• SNOMED CT makes it easier for data to be

portable from one system to another.

• It is designed by clinicians for clinicians and enables a unique partnership with technologists.

• Clinicians have the flexibility to record information in a language and in a level of detail they prefer.

OUR PRODUCTBENEFITS

OUR STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS AND GOALS

ProductEnable continuousdevelopment of theproduct to meet customer requirements

STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS

InnovationLeverage new trends and technologies that benefit SNOMED CT and its stakeholders

AdoptionProvide scalable

products and services that remove barriers

to drive adoptionof SNOMED CT

03 | TACTICS1. Drive development work to

position SNOMED International to be the leader in the areas of mhealth, consumer health, genomics, research and “big data” analytics from a vocabulary perspective

01 | TACTICS1. Develop and execute a roadmap

for the completion of relevant content/mapping work for SNOMED CT that gives SNOMED International the direction to market with all stakeholders

02 | TACTICS1. Facilitate the rapid adoption

and use of SNOMED CT internationally from clinical, implementer and industry perspectives by the provision of more proactive and responsive support mechanisms, clear implementation guidance and support, and tools designed for vendors and other implementers

2. Influence, leverage and align with the other international standards to increase the effective and efficient use of SNOMED CT. Where applicable, facilitate the addition of product to the SNOMED International offerings

3. Execute on the provision of products, tools and services to support SNOMED CT to clinical, Member and industry stakeholders involving cross-line business work across: Subsets, Implementation Guidelines, NRC Toolkits, Continuous Content Publications, and Enterprise-wide tooling that can be reused by members

JOIN US. BECOME A SNOMED INTERNATIONAL MEMBERIf you would like to find out more about joining SNOMED International or SNOMED CT please contact our Customer Relations Team at info@ihtsdo.org.

1 Kingdom StreetPaddington CentralLondon W2 6BDUnited Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)203 755 0974Email: info@ihtsdo.org www.snomed.org

COLLABORATION JANE MILLAR

EUROPEIAN GREEN

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICANICK EGARHOS

ASIA PACIFIC LIARA TUTINA

AMERICA SHELLEY LIPON