ISO 22287-2024 PDF

Full title and description

Health informatics — Workforce roles and capabilities for terminology and terminology services in healthcare (term workforce). This International Standard defines the tasks, job roles, skills and competency levels required for personnel who develop, manage, implement and support terminology and terminology services used in healthcare settings.

Abstract

This document specifies terminology services in healthcare organisations (including selection, authoring, deployment and use of terminology subsets, data sets and maps), the workforce needs to perform these services, typical job roles and the skill and competency level requirements to carry out terminology-related tasks safely and effectively across clinical, information management and health IT contexts.

General information

• Status: Published
• Publication date: 15 May 2024
• Publisher: International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• ICS / categories: 35.240.80 (Health informatics)
• Edition / version: Edition 1 (2024)
• Number of pages: 34

Scope

ISO 22287:2024 defines the scope of terminology services in healthcare organisations and the workforce roles needed to perform those services. It covers terminology selection, authoring, mapping, subset and value set creation, deployment and maintenance of terminologies; establishment of terminology management processes and related information governance policies; terminology business analysis; and support for adoption, planning and deployment of terminologies across clinical and IT domains. The standard addresses required skills and competency levels from clinical, information management and health IT perspectives.

Key topics and requirements

• Definition of terminology services activities: selection, authoring, mapping, subset and value set management, deployment and maintenance.
• Identification of job roles and responsibilities (examples: terminologist, mapping specialist, coding specialist, data modeller, content manager, interface analyst, clinical documentation improvement specialist).
• Skill and competency frameworks for each role, including levels of expertise required for safe and effective work.
• Requirements for terminology management processes, governance, privacy and security considerations.
• Guidance on integrating terminology work with health information systems and clinical workflows.
• Considerations for training, workforce planning and organisational adoption of terminologies.

Typical use and users

This standard is used by healthcare organisations, health informatics teams, clinical terminologists, EHR and health IT vendors, standards bodies, implementers of semantic interoperability, mapping and data conversion specialists, health data governance leads, educators and workforce planners who need to define roles, hire or train staff, and establish competency-based processes around clinical terminologies and terminology services.

Related standards

ISO 22287:2024 is published under ISO/TC 215 (health informatics) and replaces the earlier technical specification ISO/TS 22287:2019. It is related to other ISO health informatics work that addresses terminology, semantic interoperability and electronic health record communication under the ISO/TC 215 portfolio.

Keywords

terminology, terminology services, health informatics, workforce roles, competencies, mapping, value sets, value set management, terminologist, semantic interoperability, information governance

FAQ

Q: What is this standard?

A: An ISO International Standard that specifies workforce roles, tasks and competency requirements for terminology and terminology services in healthcare organisations.

Q: What does it cover?

A: It covers the range of terminology services activities (selection, authoring, mapping, value set/subset creation, deployment and maintenance), the job roles that perform them, and the skills and competency levels required across clinical, information management and health IT contexts.

Q: Who typically uses it?

A: Terminologists, clinical informaticians, health IT vendors, mapping and coding specialists, health data governance leads, educators, workforce planners and standards/implementation teams involved in deploying and managing clinical terminologies and semantic interoperability.

Q: Is it current or superseded?

A: ISO 22287:2024 is the current published International Standard (published 15 May 2024). It replaces ISO/TS 22287:2019 (withdrawn and superseded by this 2024 edition).

Q: Is it part of a series?

A: It is part of the ISO/TC 215 family of health informatics standards addressing terminology and semantic interoperability, but it is a standalone standard focused specifically on workforce roles and competencies for terminology services.

Q: What are the key keywords?

A: Terminology, terminology services, terminologist, competencies, mapping, value sets, health informatics, semantic interoperability.