The first phase of the Intersocial Project ends

The University of Vic-Catalonia Central University (UVic-UCC), Esteve Teijin Healthcare, PIAISS and Fundació TicSalut are working on a project to define a standard language of social use to facilitate communication between the social services involved in the advanced chronicity care model (MACA). The aim is to achieve greater data integration of the social services in Catalonia and to create a standard controlled vocabulary in order to be able to interoperate social data in Catalonia.

The project will contribute to the interoperability of social data in Catalonia and will therefore improve care for chronic patients, as this case has been used to define the standard vocabulary for interoperating, and will be developed over one year in two phases, the first of which has just reached its end.

In the first phase of the project, a study was made of the controlled vocabularies used in the social area in Catalonia and Europe. By organising different workgroups formed by a Steering Committee, a Project Follow up Committee, a Project Coordinator and the Work Package Leaders, the existing controlled vocabularies have been analysed and identified in order to define the state of the art.

The project coordination views the performed workgroups “highly positively” and is grateful for “the participation and involvement of all players in the project”.

In the last instance, work was also done on defining a usage case with a patient in an advanced chronic state in order to identify the problems and integral answers of the complex chronically sick from a social viewpoint.

From now until October, the second phase of the project will be developed in which the standard and common controlled vocabulary will be defined and validated, as well as the subunits into which it is organised, by studying the state of the art defined in the first phase.

The project has been well received by the social environment as a result of the need to have a standard controlled vocabulary.