MAG agenda and pre-reading for the Vienna SNOMED Business Meetings April 2026
Hello Modeling Advisory Group
The April Business Meeting in Vienna will be held at the Andaz Vienna Am Belvedere hotel. If you have not registered please see https://www.snomed.org/business-meetings. Online attendance does not require registration. For those attending in person, please do arrange travel and accommodation now, if you have not already.
The MAG will meet in person and online via Zoom on Wednesday 15th April at 09.00-12:30 CEST (07:00-10:30 UTC). See agenda here: https://conf.spaces.snomed.org/wiki/spaces/mag/pages/711720961/2025-04-15+Full+MAG+Vienna+Hybrid+Meeting
Speaking of which, it would be great if members would do some pre-conference reading, and work out comments and questions ahead of the meeting so that we don’t have to spend too much time reviewing the background to these topics. Specifically:
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Extensions extending the Machine Readable Concept Model. There is a choice to be made here between extensions providing MRCM rules with different refset SCTIDs from the International Edition, or overriding and extending the International MRCM using the same refsets. See discussion document here.
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Module Dependency Reference Set Recommendations. Preview presentation here and have a play with Alejandro’s MDRS visualization tool here: https://ihtsdo.github.io/sct-implementation-demonstrator/#/mdrs-viewer
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Have a think about Quality Assurance and the different ways in which we measure quality - KPIs, structural/validation testing, and clinical accuracy for example.
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We’ll also be having a discussion about the Drug Model, so members may wish to review in particular the National Drug Model and perhaps browse the recent work of the Drugs Extension User Group and also their forum pages.
Looking forward to seeing those of you who can make it in person, but also members can consider attending remotely, to save on time and cost.