World Health Assembly - New Zealand joins statement challenging WHO report on ICD-11

SECTOR UPDATE

At this week’s World Health Assembly in Geneva, Netherlands presented a statement on behalf of the EU and members, Norway, UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand calling on WHO to do more to harmonise ICD-11 and SNOMED CT.

• The statement points to the significant number of countries that have moved beyond ICD to use higher granularity terminologies, in particular SNOMED CT, to support quality digital health information and interoperability
• Concerningly, this is not well-reflected in the WHO progress report on ICD-11
• WHO is asked to change course and engage with international standards organisations to enable global and national digital health strategies
  

The UK made its own supporting statement a few minutes later, calling for WHO recognition of SNOMED CT and the International Patient Summary (IPS)

WHO’s response acknowledged both SNOMED and IPS

Recording here https://www.who.int/about/governance/world-health-assembly/seventy-sixth-world-health-assembly WHA76 Committee B Seventh Meeting starting at 41 minutes

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