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This is another good progress within the nursing profession worldwide. as the ICN has taken steps to improve on the terminologies used in the nursing practice. Below is the full report of the Collaboration announcement made between the(ICN) and the (IHTSDO) the two bodies who were the developers of the International Classification for
Nursing Practice (ICNP) and SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT), respectively.
The
ICNP terminology serves a critical
role for ICN in representing the domain of nursing practice worldwide,
thus providing nurses at all levels with data-based information used for
practice, administration, education and research.
SNOMED CT is a multidisciplinary healthcare terminology designed to
support the entry and retrieval of clinical concepts in electronic
record systems and the safe, accurate, and effective exchange of health
information.
The
International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the International Health
Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) on 1 September 2014, announced
an updated collaboration agreement to advance terminology harmonisation
and foster interoperability in health information systems. The new
collaboration agreement signed today will be reviewed on completion of
the work or in April 2016, whichever is earliest.
The
overarching goals of this collaboration are to ensure that nurses
worldwide have the tools they need to carry out their jobs effectively,
that they are not disenfranchised from the global informatics
infrastructure, and that they remain active in the collection of
meaningful and useful health information.
Read more after the break
As
part of the collaboration agreement, ICN, owner of the International
Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP), and IHTSDO, owner of SNOMED
CT, have agreed to
undertake further work that defines the relations between SNOMED CT and
ICNP to enable their interoperability in health information systems
globally. It builds on work already undertaken to produce an
equivalence table for nursing diagnoses.
In
the coming years IHTSDO and ICN will focus on two key areas of work:
joint publication of a completed equivalence table between SNOMED CT and
ICNP for Nursing
Diagnoses, and joint publication of a completed equivalence table
between SNOMED CT and ICNP for nursing interventions.
“ICN
is delighted to extend our collaboration with IHTSDO,” said David
Benton, ICN’s Chief Executive Officer. “This agreement will be of
mutual benefit to both organisations
as well as to patients and will improve the
description and comparison of nursing practice locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.”
“IHTSDO is pleased to be continuing its collaboration with the ICN”, said Jane Millar,
Head of Collaboration at IHTSDO.
“Our joint work in linking SNOMED CT and ICNP will be of benefit to the
nursing profession worldwide to ensure a common understanding and
interoperability,
and also to support sharing with other members of the healthcare team.”
The
first collaborative agreement between the two organisations was signed
in 2010, and in January 2014 the cooperation was further advanced by the
announcement of
an equivalence table between ICNP concepts and SNOMED CT concepts.
About the two collaborators:
The
International Council of Nurses (ICN) is a federation of more than 130
national nurses associations representing the millions of nurses
worldwide.
Operated by nurses and leading nursing internationally, ICN works to
ensure quality care for all and sound health policies globally. (www.icn.ch).
IHTSDO
determines global standards for health terms, an essential part of
improving the health of humankind. Its experts work collaboratively with
diverse stakeholders to ensure that SNOMED CT, its world-leading
terminology product, is accepted around the world as the common language
for health (www.ihtsdo.org).
Nurses Round is permitted to post news from the ICN eHealth desk hence is permitted to publish this message to our followers and reader.
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