September 2016 US Edition of SNOMED CT Release Available

September 2016 US Edition of SNOMED CT Release Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2016 Sep-Oct;(412):b3.

The September 2016 US Edition of SNOMED CT is now available for download by UMLS licensees from the UMLS Terminology Services (UTS).

In addition to 565 new concepts specific to the US, the September 2016 US Edition of SNOMED CT also contains all of the content from the July 2016 International Release of SNOMED CT. The release also includes the SNOMED CT to ICD-10-CM map (version 20160301) released by NLM in July 2016.

Please note:
This September 2016 US Edition of SNOMED CT marks the last RF1 release. Going forward the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) and NLM will only produce the RF2 release files for SNOMED CT. This includes the International and US Editions of SNOMED CT. This is as per the IHTSDO deprecation and withdrawal of support for SNOMED CT RF1.