InterSocial has now added 560 concepts to the Social Terminological Dictionary

The InterSocial project closes the year 2025 with a total of 560 concepts integrated into the Social Terminological Dictionary. The project was launched in 2016 to address the need to define controlled, coded and standardised vocabularies in order to ensure their secure exchange between the different information systems of the Social Services of Catalonia. These concepts have been created through the work and consensus of working groups made up of professionals from multidisciplinary fields within the social sector across the territory, the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion, and the TIC Salut Social Foundation.

Now, with the recent approval of the law to establish the Integrated Social and Health Care Agency (AGAISS-CAT), InterSocial further strengthens this momentum.

The Foundation and InterSocial

The TIC Salut Social Foundation has been involved in driving InterSocial from the outset. It contributes its expertise in interoperability through SNOMED CT, the terminological standard used to code the concepts.

It supported the integration of this dictionary into wSocial, the main information system promoted by the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion, which has subsequently been interconnected with the Health Department.

This standard, SNOMED CT—one of the most widely used internationally—is also prepared to interoperate with data from other public administration systems. Its progressive coding allows for future data exchange with other sectors.

How to access the 560 concepts

The full set of concepts included in the InterSocial Terminological Dictionary is distributed across 471 social needs or situations, 53 strengths, and 36 responses.

Details of these concepts can be consulted via the downloads area of the Catalan edition of SNOMED CT, which has recently been relocated to the website of the Catalan Health Service.