The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) has announced a new policy to enable free use of English-language SNOMED CT terms and identifiers in international research databases, in complementary health IT standards, and in other projects and resources available worldwide. The new policy allows SNOMED CT to serve as a standard vocabulary for key data elements and value sets in international resources that accept input from - and are used in - both IHTSDO Member and non-Member countries.
Access to the complete international release of SNOMED CT (including translations, hierarchical, definitional, and mapping relationships) continues to require an IHTSDO Affiliate License. The Affiliate License is free in IHTSDO Member countries, in more than 40 countries designated as low-income by the World Bank, and for approved research projects. Fees apply for regular use in other countries.
New international databases in development by the US National Library of Medicine's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) will be among the early beneficiaries of the new policy.
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