What is the vision of IHTSDO?
IHTSDOs overall vision is to improve the health of humankind by facilitating better health information management. IHTSDO seeks to contribute to improved delivery of care through accurate sharing of health information and the semantic interoperability of health records. We aim to include all clinical and social care professions and to cover both clinical and related health information. IHTSDO owns and administers the rights to SNOMED CT and we aim to develop, improve, maintain and distribute the terminology (and other terminology products). IHTSDO is promoting, enabling, and supporting the uptake and appropriate use of SNOMED CT in health systems, services, and products around the world. Support to IHTSDO Members and Licensees is provided as a globally coordinated effort, allowing the pooling of resources to share the costs and benefits. IHTSDO aims to conduct all activities in accordance with principles of openness, fairness, transparency and accountability to the Members. IHTSDO also
