Principles of Health Interoperability

Typical Outline

The objective of this course is to provide a good grounding in the basic principles that underpin health interoperability and to take you to the stage where standards documentation makes good sense.

There will also be simple project example running through the course, which participants will tackle in teams.

Course Outline

Day1 Q1.  Introduction

  • Introduction and objectives
  • Why interoperability is hard
  • Models

Day1 Q2  The Standards landscape

  • Standards
  • Standardisation
  • Standards Development Organisations

Day1 Q3  HL7 Version 2 Part 1

  • What is HL7
  • Origins and principles of HL7 V2
  • Dynamic Model (trigger events)
  • Message structure, fields and components

Day1 Q4  HL7 Version 2 Part 2

  • V2 Data Types
  • ADT messages and Segments
  • Orders and observations
  • Extensions and Z-segments

Day2 Q1  HL7 V3 RIM

  • The V3 Reference Information Model (RIM)
  • V3 Data Types

Day2 Q2  HL7 RMIMs etc

  • Refinement RMIMs
  • Clinical Statements
  • Dynamic Model

Day2 Q3  HL7 CDA

  • Principles of Clinical Document Architecture
  • CDA Header
  • CDA Body
  • Templates
  • greenCDA

Day2 Q4  IHE XDS

  • XDS Actors and transactions
  • Registry metadata
  • Affinity Domains

Day3 Q1  Clinical Coding

  • Vocabulary and Value sets   
  • Coding Schemes
  • ICD and Read Codes
  • SNOMED and LOINC

Day3 Q2  SNOMED CT

  • SNOMED Components (Concepts, descriptions and relationships)   
  • SNOMED Concept model
  • SNOMED Expressions (pre and post-coordination)

Day3 Q3 Using Hl7 and SNOMED together

  • Review of NHS ITK
  • Models of use and meaning
  • Terminfo

Day3 Q4 Privacy and Consent

  • Data Protection Principles
  • Authentication
  • Authorisation
  • Cryptography

Prerequisites

The only pre-requisite is a basic understanding of health IT systems and interoperability needs.

This course covers a lot of ground quite quickly, so it is suitable both for the beginner, who needs to know the basics and also for intermediates who wish to revise their understanding.

Tutor

Tim Benson has been at the forefront of developing and teaching health interoperability standards for almost 25 years.  He has served for several years as Convenor of the European Working Group responsible for health communication and message standards and as co-chair of HL7’s Education Committee. His book Principles of Health Interoperability HL7 and SNOMED, Springer 2010, is the best selling book in the field.