United Kingdom's Update April 2009

National activities

The UKTC has established a UK Edition Committee which will meet quarterly to review the content of the UK edition and to debate and establish guidance on specific areas relating to content development. The committee has a role in oversight and governance specifically relating to terminology content. The committee has met twice, and has established terms of reference.

We continue to host workshops for IHTSDO Members on the UK experience of managing a National Release Centre. Members of the UKTC team have actively participated in IHTSDO working groups and all standing committees. The UKTC is actively reviewing the UK edition specific content of SNOMED CT against specified quality criteria. Deployment of the international workbench into the UKTC will take place throughout 2009.

Implementation plans and other activities

The UKTC is reorganizing to address the SNOMED CT Implementation agenda.

We are working on the development of a National Laboratory Medicine Catalogue, to support the implementation of national pathology order communication systems. UKTC is also working on plans to establish open source development of Clinical Reference implementation and reference prototype Health Care User Interface components in Java.

We are also developing best practices for term finding and display, guidance and process for terminology binding to an information model, and guidance for the dictionary of medicines and devices (dm+d) implementation. UKTC is creating a subset to support the Public Health Language (PHL), a thesaurus used by public health clinicians and organizations throughout the UK.

The UKTC is in discussion with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, with regards to building in the use of SNOMED CT to support the development of the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) product set, and with Biomed Central with a view to using SNOMED CT to support their underlying database for the review of clinical casenotes.

Number of Affiliate Licensees

In the UK, there is a total of 231 affiliates. Out of that total, health providers (clinics and hospitals) own 66 licenses, industry licenses total 47, and six research licenses have been issued.



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