Terminologies and code systems are being introduced in electronic health records all over the world, but with little consistency or development pathways for improvement.  This course supports the setting of benchmarks and development of plans for improvement to compare your implementation with others and to establish your own best practice,

This course explains and builds skills in ISO TS 17117-3 Terminological Resources – Part 3 Terminology Implementation Maturity Measurement.

Any person, whether a health information manager, clinician or software developer needs to understand how data and code systems work in electronic health record systems and the stages of maturity of their own system implementations  This course identifies the requirements for different levels of maturity, why each of these requirements matter, and the impacts and risks of low levels of maturity as well as the benefits of higher levels of maturity.  Know how to assess your own system implementations and how to develop a roadmap for ongoing improvements.

Those who successfully complete this course will:

• understand the relationship between a terminologies capability and its safe and effective use in EHRs
• be able to use the maturity levels to  compare software implementations of terminologies and classifications to establish current maturity level of the implementation
• be able to plan pathways and activities for terminology or classification implementation ongoing improvement in their EHRs.
• enable software vendors to develop products delivering higher levels of terminology implementation in healthcare