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2011
April 22, 2011
The Lab Interoperability Cooperative is recruiting hospitals to participate in a program that will electronically connect hospital laboratories with public health agencies.
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February 21, 2011
Surescripts, the American Hospital Association and the College of American Pathologists today announced they have been awarded a grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to connect hospital laboratories with public health agencies to electronically transmit data on reportable laboratory results.
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February 8, 2011
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) announced today the hiring of Charles Wagner as Vice President and General Manager of its STS (SNOMED Terminology Solutions™) division. Wagner will lead CAP STS’ professional services capability expansion in the health IT marketplace.
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2010
September 16, 2010
The College of American Pathologists’ (CAP), a member of the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) Standards Committee, contributed to the expansion of the DICOM medical image exchange standard Supplement 145—the first for pathology.
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July 14, 2010
The College of American Pathologists’ division CAP STS signed a collaboration agreement with Barcelona, Spain-headquartered Gesaworld, a consultancy in the health and social sectors, to work together in advancing the use of standards in health information technology.
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May 25, 2010
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise International, Incorporated (IHE) has named the College of American Pathologists (CAP)
as the primary Sponsoring Organization of the IHE Laboratory Domain.
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January 7, 2010
CAP SNOMED Terminology Solutions (STS) released the new CAP electronic Cancer Checklists (CAP eCC)—the XML version of the updated CAP Cancer Checklists. The latest CAP eCC release contains all of the new and updated content in the CAP Cancer protocols posted October 2009, and elements from the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual 7th Edition.
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2009
November 17, 2009
The NLM has released a draft rules-based mapping from SNOMED Clinical Terms® to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, Clinical Modification. CAP STS developed the map on behalf of the NLM.
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October 7, 2009
In an effort to advance health information interoperability, MedicAlert® Foundation International and SNOMED Terminology SolutionsTM (STS) are working together to standardize the health information in the MedicAlert Emergency Medical Information Record (EMIR), making it easier for consumers to connect their emergency medical information to other health information applications currently available on the Microsoft®
HealthVaultTM Platform.
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July 14, 2009
Spain, through the Ministry of Health and Social Policy, is now one in the group of countries that are part of International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation. Spain joins the global effort to develop, maintain and spread the use of a clinical terminology called SNOMED CT.
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June 11, 2009
dbMotion, a provider of health
interoperability and intelligence solutions, and SNOMED Terminology Solutions™(STS), a division of the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and a leading organization in offering customized, bestpractice terminology implementation and education services, today announced a partnership aimed at delivering a solution that enables their clients to reach the highest levels of interoperability and raises the industry’s bar for advanced interoperability.
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April 1, 2009
On April 1, 2009, the owners of three standards that contain laboratory test terminology – the Logical Observation Identifiers,
Names, Codes (LOINC), Nomenclature, Properties and Units (NPU), and the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine -
Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) – began an operational Trial of prospective divisions of labor in the generation of laboratory test
terminology content. This Trial will provide practical experience and important information on opportunities to
decrease duplication of effort in the development of laboratory test terminology and to ensure that SNOMED CT works
effectively in combination with either LOINC or NPU.
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February 9, 2009
The Diagnostic Intelligence and Health Information Technology Department of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) released
the CAP Electronic Cancer Checklists (CAP eCC) for the first time in XML format. The CAP eCC assist pathologists and cancer registrars in collecting data elements reported for the most common forms of cancer and delivering the information necessary for quality patient care.
January 22, 2009
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation® (IHTSDO) has launched a new IHTSDO Workbench with tools to develop, maintain, and facilitate the use of SNOMED CT in health systems around the world. IHTSDO’s 11 Member nations and other SNOMED CT users will use these tools in a shared web-based environment. The Workbench includes a set of tools that will form the foundation of a multi-lingual modular workbench. The overall environment will initially host terminology browsing, authoring, subset and other reference set management, mapping, and namespace management applications. Users can either work independently or can collaborate on terminology editing, mapping, or other tasks. IHTSDO intends to add additional modules to the Workbench over time and to encourage partners to build and share complementary tools.
January 14, 2009
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation® (IHTSDO) announces that it will make Affiliate Licenses for the use of SNOMED CT® available to users in low income countries free of charge. This initiative is part of the organization’s commitment to enable broader use of standardized clinical terminologies world-wide. Health care providers and others in the 49 countries categorized as low income economies by the World Bank will be able to obtain SNOMED CT Affiliate Licenses free of charge from the IHTSDO to use the terminology in public health information systems, electronic health records, health research, and other applications as part of the initial phase of a program to expand access to SNOMED CT.
2008
August 8, 2008
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation® (IHTSDO®) releases the second 2008 International Release of SNOMED Clinical Terms® (SNOMED CT®). It is now available for use, incorporating enhancements which are part of ongoing efforts directed toward facilitating the use of the terminology in electronic health records. Please see the press release posted on the IHTSDO Web site.
April 14, 2008
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO®) marks its one-year anniversary providing SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) to the international healthcare industry with its annual IHTSDO Spring Conference.
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2007
May 1, 2007
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is renaming its SNOMED International division. The division will now be called SNOMED Terminology Solutions and follows last week’s announcement regarding the formation of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation that acquired the intellectual property rights of SNOMED Clinical Terms,® and its antecedents from the CAP.
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April 26, 2007
The newly-formed International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO®, also known as SNOMED SDO®) has acquired the intellectual property rights of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) and its antecedents from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) for $7.8 million, marking a milestone in the international standardization of health data.
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March 9, 2007
Hyeoun-Ae Park, PhD, RN, professor of biostatistics and health informatics at the College of Nursing, Seoul National University, South Korea, joins SNOMED International for a yearlong sabbatical.
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January 15, 2007
SNOMED International continues to work closely with representatives from nine countries in the creation of an international standards development organization (SDO) for the maintenance, development, quality assurance and release of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®).
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2006
November 30, 2006
The Alliance for Nursing Informatics (ANI), sponsored by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), accepts SNOMED International’s Nursing Working Group as a full member, joining key nursing informatics decision-making groups.
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October 9, 2006
SNOMED International and the International Council of Nurses announce a collaboration to complement each other’s terminologies used for nursing practice: SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT®) and the International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP®).
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July 11, 2006
SNOMED International and the National E-Health Transition Authority sign an agreement that will enable SNOMED Clinical Terms® to be used in health information management throughout all of Australia.
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April 19, 2006
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advances the federal effort to create electronic health records for Americans within the next decade by making it easier to share drug information electronically. FDA is moving the effort forward by adopting the Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine (SNOMED) as the standard computerized medical vocabulary system to be used to electronically code important terms in the Highlights section of prescription drug labeling.
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