The Va Md College of Veterinary Medicine's (VMCVM) Equine Medical Center compiled a terminology set for recording equine diagnoses. Building on this work, the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP) contracted with the Veterinary Terminology and Standards (VTS) group at VCMVCM to map these terms to existing SNOMED CT concepts and develop an AAEP-endorsed SNOMED CT subset. Modeled after the American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA)’s subset, this standardized format is designed to support easier implementation by hospital information system vendors and promote consistent data capture across systems.
Out of Cycle Update Available: January 1, 2025 release availableThe Ceneter for Veterinary Terminology and Standards has been asked to move our distribution and management of the Veterinary Extension to SNOMED Distributed Services in order to make it more readily available for international user needs. While the intention was to have this migration complete before the October 2024 release, work is still ongoing. We do not have a definitive timetable for migration to SNOMED's distributed services. However, we decided it would be best for our stakeholders to go forward with an out of cycle update. See BELOW for update links and information. After the transition is complete, the Veterinary Edition of SNOMED CT (International Release plus Veterinary Extension content) will be available for browsing using the SNOMED Browser (https://browser.ihtsdotools.org). Our own browser will continue to be available here on our website as well.
New Release Files AvailableJanuary 1, 2025
The Problem & Diagnosis Terms hava been updated to include requested concepts and descriptions and to align it with the November 2024 International release of SNOMED CT© and the January 2025 release of the Veterinary Extension to SNOMED CT. To obtain a copy of this release, login to VTS (with a VTS account or your UMLS credentials) and access it via the Documents page. If you've successfully logged in and have been granted access to Diagnostic Terms download, you should see a Documents button to the left. If you have successfully logged in, but do NOT see a Documents button, then you need to request access. To do this go to "My Profile".