What information on the use of SNOMED CT must be provided annually ?

With the use of a affiliate license annual reporting obligations are associated. The affiliate licensee is obliged to prepare or renew annually a declaration of use.

This is done via the MLDS portal (Member Licensing and Distribution Service). There, the affiliate licensee must describe the current and planned use, the purpose of use and the implementation status of his software.

Furthermore, the affiliate licensee must provide information on his sublicensees or end users (organisations or individual users), disclose the number of software applications and the number of application workstations as well as the type of use (data collection or data evaluation and data aggregation with SNOMED CT). This declaration of use must be updated annually in the MLDS, at latest by 15 January of the current year.