Terms of Reference for the Health & Social Care Interoperability Working Group
1. This working group has evolved from the developments and pilots being initiated within the membership of the Data Sharing Technologies Board (DSTB).
2. The aim of the DSTB is to encourage and enable improved collaborative and partnership working to improve care and outcomes for the people of Scotland. Ensuring that integrated information supports the delivery of seamless health and social care is the Board’s primary concern. It will oversee the development and delivery of key business drivers for information sharing for:
· Matching and Indexing;
· Messaging and Alerting;
· Shared Assessments and Care Plans;
· Shared Chronologies.
3. This set of key business drivers will ensure that solutions developed by the Health & Social Care Interoperability Working Group start from the practitioners’ business improvement objectives and be acceptable to them. These requirements will drive the standards based approach to design that delivers benefits from information assets and supports convergence to reduce total effort and cost.
4. Ensemble is a product that is used as an integration tool and enables collaborative sharing of information between partners and applications. The remit of the group will be to ensure that there is a consistency of design approach to delivering shared artefacts that will take account of the needs of the local authorities as well as the Health Boards.
5. The group will consider data sharing requirements from within each DSP, but also a cross–border solutions.
Overall Purpose
6. The group will:
· Ensure that the design of information sharing solutions will be a collaborative approach between Health and Local Authorities and be driven by the key information sharing business requirements as directed by the DSTB
· Agree the development of assets in support of collaborative working.
· Oversee the development and maintenance of a process for agreeing what technical information sharing assets should be implemented nationally, and in which circumstances national guidance - or dissemination of examples of success with local interpretation - is the most appropriate way forward.
· Recommend to DSTB the development of integration artefacts as required.
· Recommend to the Ensemble Integration Governance Group the development and maintenance of the National Data Services where it relates specifically to Health and Social Care Integration
· Govern the hosting, availability and collaboration of Health and Social Care integration artefacts in a shared library of artefacts and to make recommendations to the Data Sharing Technologies Board and the Ensemble Integration Governance Group related to the availability of such artefacts.
Governance
7. The Group is established by and reports directly to the DSTB. The Group’s output will be shared with the National Applications Working Group and the Ensemble Integration Governance Group.
8. The Group will be Chaired by a member of the Data Sharing Technologies Board.
Representation
9. The success of the Group will be driven by its ability to design technological solutions that support collaborative cross sectoral working. The Group will identify its key stakeholders and partners that will include Health Board representation, NSS, Local Authority and Scottish Government and representation from selective public bodies or the voluntary sector as required.