Technical Consulting Services
STS offers technical services and implementation strategies to promote and enable the use of SNOMED CT and other standard terminologies within health care organizations and health information technology (HIT) products.
STS can provide a comprehensive evaluation of your organization’s current terminology strategies and technical environment to help you realize desired clinical and business outcomes and strategy. STS can show you how terminology yields clinical and business innovation and measured value.
Next, STS can develop a roadmap and implement appropriate terminology solutions into your organization’s systems or products. STS can also analyze, evaluate, and validate your organization’s implementation of a terminology service. Finally, STS can offer both on-line and in-person training sessions to educate and train developers, support teams, and clinical users.
In summary, STS can help organizations with the following:
- Assessment—Evaluate current terminology strategies and promote better understanding of terminology’s contribution to business value
- Strategy—Identify clinical and business outcomes to be enabled by terminology solutions
- Planning—Develop and design plan of action to meet IT objectives
- Implementation—Implementation of terminology services
- Evaluation—Evaluate post-implementation of terminology services
- Training—On-line and in-person
All technical services, which can be implemented at any point in your organization’s planning and development phase, can be customized for your organization’s needs.
STS has a global presence and has provided consultation and training in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Spain, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Services and Products
- SNOMED CT updates, including migration of older versions of SNOMED to SNOMED CT
- Implementation planning from feasibility to integration for SNOMED CT and other standard terminologies
- Content delivery and clinical process integration
- Post-implementation validation and maintenance services for SNOMED CT and other standard terminologies
- Development and maintenance of user-defined subsets for SNOMED CT
- Lexicon coding and development of data dictionary
- Technical training, online and in-person
Examples of STS Technical Consulting Engagements
- Providing high-level strategy for implementing terminology into HIT systems for database management and software development companies
- Supporting implementation of standard terminologies within HIT systems for companies specializing in emergency department clinical documentation
- Reviewing and validating use of SNOMED CT within hospitals’ information systems
- Developing effective SNOMED CT coding selection strategy for technology companies patient encounter forms
- Offering terminology strategy and lexicon coding/development advice for statewide health agencies
- Developing strategies for post-coordination and/or extensions to support local terminology needs for national boards of health
- Developing and maintaining user-defined subsets to support terminology implementations of various clinical specialties for hospital health care systems
- Defining requirements to scope a terminology implementation project for a statewide health agency and other health care providers
