National Clinical Terminology Service (NCTS)

Used in over 90 countries, SNOMED CT is becoming the global language of healthcare in clinical software. We provide access to SNOMED CT-AU and AMT (the subset of the Australian edition relating to medicines).

LOINC is an international standard for identifying health measurements, observations and documents. We provide access to LOINC through Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) and other formats.

The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA) Standardised Pathology Informatics in Australia (SPIA) terminology reference set and information model standardises and improves the recording, decision support, communication and analysis of pathology in Australia.

We provide access to over 50 code systems that may be used in clinical software to support administrative sections of medical records such as occupations, the Australian Immunisation Register and valid reasons for null values. 

A webinar (approx. 25 mins) that demonstrates a popular terminology browser and gives tips and hints on how to search for SNOMED CT-AU content, including the AMT.

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The course provides foundational knowledge of SNOMED CT-AU, why standardised terminology is important for safe and connected care, how it is structured, and where it is used within the Australian health system.

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The course provides foundational knowledge of Australian Medicines Terminology (AMT), including its concepts and use across the medicines management lifecycle.

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A web site that sits in front of a FHIR terminology server and provides a human-friendly rendering.

Sample relational database load scripts and SQL queries for processing SNOMED CT-AU RF2 release files.

The official SNOMED CT OWL Toolkit. OWL conversion, classification and authoring support.

FHIR Medication server that makes it easy to make medicines terminology content available as a local service.

Detailed information is available on the Github repository.

SNOMED CT and SNOMED CT-AU is updated and released monthly.

See the latest news and events. 

• What is clinical terminology?
• What is SNOMED CT and the AMT?
• Uses of SNOMED CT
• Benefits of SNOMED CT
• The big picture: SNOMED and other code sets
• The AMT: focusing on medicines
• Who’s using SNOMED CT-AU
• Other terminologies and third party content

• Access FHIR terminology resources
• Access SNOMED CT-AU
• LOINC
• Licensing
• RCPA resources
• Release information

• Contact and support
• Getting started
• NCTS Specifications
• Native SNOMED CT RF2 files
• Technical approaches
• Terminology as a service

Additional resources

• NCTS Resources
• NCTS Sitemap