The NHS England Terminology Server
The NHS England Terminology Server is a solution to help healthcare IT systems speak the same language, and make mapping codes between organisations faster and easier.
While an integration with this product is not essential, it will fundamentally help both providers and consumers speak the same language, and deal with SNOMED and dm+d concepts used throuhgout this specification.
What is a terminology server?
Healthcare organisations often use different software and different words, or 'terminologies', to record health information: what one doctor records in their system as a 'chest infection', for example, might be recorded as 'upper-respiratory infection' in another, so the two systems might not be able to match the information up.
A terminology server transforms the way in which data is captured, shared and analysed across health and care, meaning more effective, efficient and safer decision-making. This makes providing healthcare services, treatment and cures more efficient and cost-effective.
It also makes it possible to load local codes and map these to national codes, or other local or system codes.