SNOMED CT Terminology MCP Server

SNOMED CT is the world's most comprehensive clinical terminology, used in electronic health records across more than 80 countries. This connector gives Claude direct access to it through SNOMED International's terminology server.

Use it to look up concepts by code or name, validate that a code exists and is active, test subsumption between concepts, navigate the hierarchy (ancestors, children, descendants), and expand value sets using Expression Constraint Language (ECL). It works across all SNOMED CT editions available on the connected backend, including the International, US and Australian editions.

Every tool is read-only, the connector never modifies terminology data. It runs as a stateless proxy to the configured Snowstorm instance, holding no query content or personal data between requests.

Built and maintained by SNOMED International, the owners of SNOMED CT.

Publisher claimed. 15 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under health. Published by snomed.org.

Status

Pod has not dialled SNOMED CT Terminology yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 15 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

• fhir_metadata
• list_terminologies
• server_capabilities
• server_health
• snomed_expand
• snomed_get_ancestors
• snomed_get_children
• snomed_get_descendants
• snomed_lookup
• snomed_subsumes
• snomed_validate_code
• snowstorm_get_concept_native
• snowstorm_list_codesystems
• snowstorm_list_versions
• snowstorm_search_concepts

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://snowstorm-mcp.snomedtools.org/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "snomed-ct-terminology": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://snowstorm-mcp.snomedtools.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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