NHS Digital launches its Terminology Server to help boost data sharing
A solution which has been designed to allow healthcare IT systems to speak the same language and promote data sharing is now live.
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New PRSB standards published on e-discharge summaries
A re-worked version of the e-discharge summary standard has been published by the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB).
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NHS Digital planning “big drive” on clinical terminology standardisation
NHS Digital will be having a “big drive” on standardising clinical terminology across health and social care, Beverley Bryant has told delegates at the 2017 e-Health Week conference.
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Predictions for the year ahead: UK digital health leaders on 2017
In the second part of a two-part look ahead to 2017, Digital Health News asked some UK digital health leaders for their predictions for the year to come.
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Healthcare IT news in brief
SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020
SNOMED to replace Read Codes by 2020 and primary care systems must move to the clinical terminology by the end of 2016
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GP2GP to take in CTV3 systems
More GP systems will be accredited for GP2GP record transfer in the next two years, and these will include systems that use CTV3 coding, according to NHS Connecting for Health. In an interview to update EHI Primary Care on the progress of GP2GP since the project won the intereperability prize in last year’s E-Health Insider Awards in […]
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WHO and IHTSDO partner on standards
The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation and the World Health Organisation have signed a collaborative agreement to utilise WHO classifications and SNOMED CT together. The collaboration aims to create an integrated classifications and terminology system that will improve patient information for health policy, health services management and research across the world. Martin Severs, chair […]
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Spain joins SNOMED body
Spain has become the eleventh country to join the international healthcare standards development organisation (IHTSDO), the organisation aimed at spreading the use of standardised clinical terminology SNOMED CT. Spain will join the global effort to develop, maintain and spread the use of the clinical terminology, which aims to promote consistency, accuracy and reliability of health […]
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