National Clinical Terminology Service Registration Terms
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Individual
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By registering to access and/or download the Registration Content, you agree to be bound by the Registration Terms outlined below. All registered users will be required to answer a short Statement of Usage survey annually each June as a condition of continued access to the Registration Content.
These are the terms (Registration Terms) under which users can register on the National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS) website found at www.healthterminologies.gov.au (Website) to access and download certain terminology products and tools (Registration Content). By registering to access and/or download the Registration Content, you agree to be bound by these Registration Terms. The Australian Digital Health Agency (the Agency) may amend these Registration Terms from time to time and without notice to you. If you continue to access the Registration Content you are deemed to have accepted the Registration Terms, as amended.
Other parts of the Website may have specific terms and conditions of use which apply in addition to these Registration Terms, and by accessing those parts of the Website, you also agree to those additional terms and conditions of use.
Individual
By registering to access and/or download the Registration Content, you will be able to access and/or download (where applicable) the Registration Content which contains Agency developed products and third party developed products from time to time, including:
the Australian National Terminology release comprising the International Release of SNOMED CT® 1 together with the Australian national extensions (e.g. SNOMED CT AU) and any Australian national derivatives (e.g. Australian Medicines Terminology); some third party terminology products licensed to the Agency by third parties;
This release is maintained against the July 2022 SNOMED CT International Edition.
Identifying the version of this release of SNOMED CT-AU
When using codes from this release (for example, in clinical documents, maps, or terminology servers) the following string should be used to identify the version of this release: http://snomed.info/sct/32506021000036107/version/20221130
Inclusions
This release contains the following content, accessible from the NCTS website:
Status
Name and version
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 November 2022 (RF2 FULL)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 November2022 (RF2 SNAPSHOT)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 November2022 (RF2 DELTA)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 November 2022(RF2 ALL)
New
SNOMED CT-AU Release Note 30 November 2022 (this document)
New
AMT CSV 20221130
New
FHIR Value Sets v20221130
New
TSV format reference sets v20221130
New
SNOMED CT-AU Change Reports CSV v20221130
Note: if there are no changes for the month only the header row will appear in the file.
Change summary
This section summarises the changes in this release and provides notice about planned future work. Changes made to resolve data issues will be listed if the potential impact on systems or patient care exceeds a threshold determined by an internal risk matrix assessment.
Request submissions for new concepts and descriptions have been added in this release from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
AMT
Requested content
In addition to the modelling of new products, based on the 1 December 2022 PBS and RPBS schedule, a number of other products have been modelled in this release.
Future changes
Terminology
Category/ID
Description
SNOMED CT‑AU
EDRS
With the release of the new Australian emergency department reference set as of January 2019, there are plans to deprecate the original Emergency Department Reference (EDRS) set in a forthcoming release. Current users of the EDRS will be consulted prior to confirming the deprecation date.
This release is maintained against the July 2022 SNOMED CT International Edition.
Identifying the version of this release of SNOMED CT-AU
When using codes from this release (for example, in clinical documents, maps, or terminology servers) the following string should be used to identify the version of this release: http://snomed.info/sct/32506021000036107/version/20221031
Inclusions
This release contains the following content, accessible from the NCTS website:
Status
Name and version
New
SNOMED CT-AU 31 October 2022 (RF2 FULL)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 31 October 2022 (RF2 SNAPSHOT)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 31 October 2022 (RF2 DELTA)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 31 October 2022 (RF2 ALL)
New
SNOMED CT-AU Release Note 31 October 2022 (this document)
New
AMT CSV 20221031
New
FHIR Value Sets v20221031
New
TSV format reference sets v20221031
New
SNOMED CT-AU Change Reports CSV v20221031
Note: if there are no changes for the month only the header row will appear in the file.
Change summary
This section summarises the changes in this release and provides notice about planned future work. Changes made to resolve data issues will be listed if the potential impact on systems or patient care exceeds a threshold determined by an internal risk matrix assessment.
Request submissions for new concepts and descriptions have been added in this release from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Healthdirect Australia, Medical Director, and Synapse Medical.
AMT
Requested content
In addition to the modelling of new products, based on the 1 November 2022 PBS and RPBS schedule, a number of other products have been modelled in this release.
Future changes
Terminology
Category/ID
Description
SNOMED CT‑AU
EDRS
With the release of the new Australian emergency department reference set as of January 2019, there are plans to deprecate the original Emergency Department Reference (EDRS) set in a forthcoming release. Current users of the EDRS will be consulted prior to confirming the deprecation date.
This release is maintained against the July 2022 SNOMED CT International Edition.
Identifying the version of this release of SNOMED CT-AU
When using codes from this release (for example, in clinical documents, maps, or terminology servers) the following string should be used to identify the version of this release: http://snomed.info/sct/32506021000036107/version/20220930
Inclusions
This release contains the following content, accessible from the NCTS website:
Status
Name and version
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 September 2022 (RF2 FULL)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 September 2022 (RF2 SNAPSHOT)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 September 2022 (RF2 DELTA)
New
SNOMED CT-AU 30 September 2022 (RF2 ALL)
New
SNOMED CT-AU Release Note 30 September 2022 (this document)
New
AMT CSV 20220930
New
FHIR Value Sets v20220930
New
TSV format reference sets v20220930
New
SNOMED CT-AU Change Reports CSV v20220930
Change summary
This section summarises the changes in this release and provides notice about planned future work. Changes made to resolve data issues will be listed if the potential impact on systems or patient care exceeds a threshold determined by an internal risk matrix assessment.
International content maintenance has been prioritised in this release.
AMT
Requested content
In addition to the modelling of new products, based on the 1 October 2022 PBS and RPBS schedule, a number of other products have been modelled in this release.
Future changes
Terminology
Category/ID
Description
SNOMED CT‑AU
EDRS
With the release of the new Australian emergency department reference set as of January 2019, there are plans to deprecate the original Emergency Department Reference (EDRS) set in a forthcoming release. Current users of the EDRS will be consulted prior to confirming the deprecation date.
The core Concept, Description and Relationship files have been updated to include the July 2022 International SNOMED CT Release.
Consequently, all reference sets provided in the previous release have been updated accordingly. Specific content developments and improvements have been inherited from the July 2022 SNOMED CT International Release.
If you have any questions or concerns feel free to contact us by emailing help@digitalhealth.gov.au.
The following list contains some of the SNOMED CT COVID-19 specific concepts available including those added specifically to the SNOMED CT-AU release. They are displayed below as concept ID |Preferred Term| and grouped according to their SNOMED CT concept hierarchy. You can view any additional concepts and synonyms in the Shrimp Terminology Browser.
Recent additions from the July 2021 SNOMED International release can be viewed in the SNOMED CT-AU September 2021 release note. If you have suggestions for new concepts or synonyms, please complete our online request form (preferred) or send your content request to help@digitalhealth.gov.au.
Australian Medicines Terminology
The following list only includes the Medicinal Product (MP) and associated Containered Trade Product Pack (CTPP).
1595591000168104 | COVID-19 (NVX-CoV2373) vaccine | added February 2022 1595641000168108 | Nuvaxovid Multidose injection, 10 x 5 mL vials | added February 2022
1527311000168101 | COVID-19 ChAdOx1-S viral vector vaccine | added February 2021 1530551000168109 | Vaxzevria Multidose injection, 10 x 4 mL vials | (previously COVID-19 Vaccine (AstraZeneca)) added February 2021 1527361000168103 | Vaxzevria Multidose injection 10 x 5 mL vials | (previously COVID-19 Vaccine (AstraZeneca)) added February 2021
1565221000168102 | elasomeran | added August 2021 1565271000168101 | Spikevax Multidose 200 microgram/mL injection, 10 x 5 mL vials | added August 2021
1592411000168100 | regdanvimab | added January 2022 1592461000168101 | Regkirona 960 mg/16 mL injection, 16 mL vial | added January 2022
1480741000168100 | remdesivir | added July 2020 1480881000168101 | Veklury 100 mg powder for injection, 1 vial | added July 2020 1480791000168108 | Veklury 100 mg/20 mL injection, 20 mL vial | added July 2020
1525021000168100 | tozinameran | (previously COVID-19 mRNA vaccine) added February 2021 1525071000168104 | Comirnaty Purple Cap Multidose injection, 195 x 0.45 mL vials | added February 2021 1591901000168100 | Comirnaty Grey Cap 12 Years and Above Ready to Use Multidose 30 microgram/0.3 mL injection, 10 x 2.25 mL vials | added January 2022 1591951000168101 | Comirnaty Grey Cap 12 Years and Above Ready to Use Multidose 30 microgram/0.3 mL injection, 195 x 2.25 mL vials | added January 2022 1591741000168101 | Comirnaty Orange Cap 5 to less than 12 Years Dilute to Use Multidose injection, 10 x 1.3 mL vials | added January 2022 1591771000168108 | Comirnaty Orange Cap 5 to less than 12 Years Dilute to Use Multidose injection, 195 x 1.3 mL vial | added January 2022
Clinical finding
840539006 |COVID-19| 1454671000168104 |Recent travel to high risk COVID-19 region| 1465981000168100 |Bilateral interstitial pneumonia| added May 2020 1466021000168105 |Concern about exposure to COVID-19| added May 2020 1466151000168103 |More than two diffuse B-lines on ultrasound of lung| added May 2020
1454661000168105 |COVID-19 Clinic and Testing Centre|
Substance
840536004 |Antigen of SARS-CoV-2| 840535000 |Antibody to SARS-CoV-2|
News and events /
RCPA – SPIA Requesting Pathology Terminology Reference Set
RCPA – SPIA Requesting Pathology Terminology Reference Set
Feb 21, 2022
The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Standards for Pathology Informatics in Australia Requesting Pathology reference set has been updated to version 4.2.
