The International Council of Nurses (ICN) and the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) have announced a collaborative agreement to advance terminology harmonisation and foster interoperability in health information systems. The new agreement complements the aims of both organisations for state of the art health informatics standards.
The ICN-IHTSDO collaboration will help Nurses access and share patient information in a standard way to ensure safety, improve quality of care across the healthcare delivery system and communicate with other health professions. ICN will be an active participant in the work of the IHTSDO. It will facilitate involvement of the nursing community through the IHTSDO Nursing Special Interest Group and International Classification for Nursing Practice (ICNP) programme activities.
ICN and IHTSDO are the developers of the ICNP and SNOMED Clinical Terms (CT), respectively. The ICNP terminology provides 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.
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