FI SNOMED International membership

ended

Background There is currently a fragmentation of standards used to express clinical concepts. This hampers the semantic interoperability of health data. Thus, there is a need to provide a standard terminology to express clinical meanings captured by the clinicians and harmonise the way health professionals express themselves. Objectives The action supports the development of the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and the use of health data for the provision of healthcare, namely by promoting the use of a standardised terminology for health data encoding, supporting the provision of healthcare as well as facilitating the reuse of health data for research, policy making and regulatory activities. It implements the EU4Health Programme’s general objective of ‘strengthening health systems’ (Article 3, point (d)) through the specific objectives defined in Article 4, point (f) of Regulation (EU) 2021/522. The award of a direct grant as referred to in Article 13(5) of Regulation (EU)2021/522 is duly justified because this action can only be carried out by Member State (MS) authorities that have the required competence and responsibility to implement the Union policies at national level. The project will support Finland in continuing the membership of SNOMED International and making SNOMED CT available for healthcare related organizations (e.g., hospitals, health care providers, health research facilities, health IT providers).