We have just released 2020 March SNOMED version that includes novel coronavirus concepts.
To accommodate for immediate need for concepts to represent ideas related to novel COVID-19 diagnostics, treatment and research, IHTSDO has released interim version of SNOMED International on 9th of march.
In OMOP CDM, SNOMED Vocabulary is built from three different sources: SNOMED International release, SNOMED US edition and SNOMED UK edition. Latter two are based on International release.
We were intending to delay January until April to release to synchronize with local editions to reduce inconsistencies and standard concept duplication. However, we had to force the update today to include changes related to novel coronavirus pandemic. Plans to synchronize releases have been delayed until July release, which will hopefully be finalized this October.
Updates to LOINC and ICD10 are in progress.
Here’s the corresponding github issue.