Health informatics. Workforce roles and capabilities for terminology and terminology services in healthcare (term workforce)

Scope

What is ISO/TS 22287 – Terminology services in healthcare about?

The use of terminology service helps in understanding and sharing health data. ISO/TS 22287 specifies the tasks, roles, and key skills, requirements and competencies for personnel involved in terminology services in healthcare organizations.

ISO/TS 22287 describes terminology services in healthcare organizations including the selection, authoring, and deployment and use of terminology subsets and maps, developing and managing terminology management processes and health information management related policies, performing terminology business analysis, and supporting the adoption, planning, and deployment of terminologies.

ISO/TS 22287 also specifies workforce needs to perform these services and job roles in the healthcare organizations and related organizations responsible for performing terminology related tasks.

ISO/TS 22287 covers skill and competency level requirements to safely and effectively undertake each task, taking into account the focus of the task from the perspectives of Health Information and Communication Technology (HICT), information management, information governance including information privacy and security, clinical practice, and healthcare decision making.

Who is ISO/TS 22287 – Terminology services in healthcare for?

ISO/TS 22287 on terminology services in healthcare is useful for:

• The healthcare industry
• Health information and communication technology vendors
• Health informatics and health information management professionals
• Those involved in HICT product development, deployment, and use

Why should you use ISO/TS 22287 – Terminology services in healthcare?

The adoption of HICT products has reported shortfalls in the quantity and skills of the workforce in health information technology, health information management, and health informatics. ISO/TS 22287 covers tasks associated with electronic capture, management, sharing, and use of health record content in electronic health record (EHR) and health information systems (HIS) in the context of clinical care, business processes, and information governance activities in healthcare.

ISO/TS 22287 addresses workforce needs when implementing terminology resources (products) in healthcare organizations and related supporting organizations, including regional, national, and international health information and communication technology programs.

ISO/TS 22287 enables healthcare organizations and related supporting organizations that deploy HICT products to safely and effectively support semantic interoperability within systems and between systems locally, nationally, or globally. Semantic interoperability, the ability of computer systems to exchange data with unambiguous and shared meaning, is impacted by the generation, management and sharing of health-related data and information. Following ISO/TS 22287 guidelines contributes to making healthcare services more efficient, and benefits all stakeholders.

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