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January 2017 Release of SNOMED CT International Edition Available for Download

January 2017 Release of SNOMED CT International Edition Available for Download. 2017 Jan-Feb;(414):b8.

2017 January 31 [posted]

The January 2017 release of SNOMED CT International Edition is available now for download by UMLS Licensees. The SNOMED CT International Edition contains SNOMED CT files in Release Format 2 (RF2) only, distributed in a zipped file.

Please note the new file naming convention of the International Edition:

  • SnomedCT_InternationalRF2_Production_20170131T120000.zip

The March 2017 US Edition will follow the new file naming convention as well.

The Release Notes and OWL Resource file have been separated from the International Edition release package. They can be downloaded from the NLM International Release of SNOMED CT page.

Additional information about release file changes, including deprecation and withdrawal of support for RF1, can be found on the IHTSDO Web site. Please visit the IHTSDO Known Issue Register, which details any known issues with the SNOMED CT International Edition release.

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