International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organization
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) is a non-profit organization that develops and distributes SNOMED CT . It is based in Denmark. The aim is to use the SNOMED terminology to support the safe and effective exchange of health information.
history
Until 2007 the College of American Pathologists (CAP) coordinated the SNOMED development and financed it to a large extent. It finally agreed to hand over all rights to an international SNOMED CT development organization, which was eventually founded as IHTSDO. The transfer of the rights to the IHTSDO was an important step to change the license policy of the original licensors and thus to further spread and internationalize SNOMED CT.
organization
The IHTSDO is supported and financed by member countries in cooperation with the WHO. So far, 14 countries (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and in Europe Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Lithuania, Estonia, Cyprus, Slovakia and Spain) have agreed to cooperate and, above all, to co-finance.