Visions of new responsibilities

and opportunities for

terminologists and terminology

centres

Katri Seppälä, Director, Finnish Terminology

Centre TSK

Virpi Kalliokuusi, Senior Planning Officer, National

Institute for Health and Welfare, Department of

Information Services

Finnish Terminology Centre TSK

in brief

was founded as a non-profit association in 1974

offers services to all interested parties (both private and

public organizations)

produce glossaries, ontologies and concept models

uses standardized principles and methods for

terminology work

develops working methods and tools for terminology and

ontology work

70-75 % of funding comes from projects and the rest

from membership fees and from the Ministry of

Education and Culture

7 employees (6 terminologist and 1 IT expert)

Finnish Terminology Centre TSK

in brief

activities partly funded by the Ministry of Education and

Culture

term banks: TEPA (since 1984), IT Terminology

(since 1999)

Bank and Finance Terminology (since 2001,

separate funding)

development of standards

participation in ISO/TC 37 work

national and international co-operation

terminology consultation

quarterly web newsletter Terminfo and other online

information

TSK’s project activities

during the first years terminology work in TSK was done

mainly for the needs of technical subject fields

gradually other fields of expertise also showed

interest

until the early 21st century the terminology work driven

by TSK concentrated on supporting human

communication

since then the need to support human-machine

interaction and information transfer between

machines has become more important

Examples of TSK’s projects

ontologies for information indexing and retrieval

(National Library’s Finto service, finto.fi), e.g. Ontology for Museum Domain and Applied Arts (2016)

Ontology for Education for Sustainable Development (2015)

glossaries defining concepts to ease and secure

information transfer between data systems, e.g. Vocabulary of Environmental Health Care Control – Guideline for Use of

Terminology Related to Objects of Control and Control Data (2012)

Vocabulary of Geoinformatics (2014)

Core Concept Group and Concept Modelling Group of public

administration in Finland

semantic interoperability of the data systems through defining and

modelling core concepts which are commonly used in public

administration organizations

Project model

all projects are carried out in close co-operation with

subject field specialists

expert groups work efficiently when different types of

expertise are combined

the experts learn from each other which makes the

work interesting

new applications of concept analysis challenge

terminologists

Data modelling and terminology work: case social services

• Development of uniform client document structures based on reusable data components

• The overall goal is to ensure that

– client data can be shared by professionals and organizations

– clients can have access to their own data

• via national IT services and client data repositories

• Data modelling is based on systematic terminology work

– Analysis and definition of concepts related to document types and data components

– Active co-operation between data modelling experts, social welfare experts and terminologists

• Sanastokeskus TSK involved in several terminology projects

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Vocabulary of information

management in social welfare

• Available in TEPA termbankhttp://www.tsk.fi/tepa/

• Published also as a pdf

document

Concept system of general

client document types in

social welfare

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Editor for managing and

distributing

• document structures,

• data components and

• terminologies

Developed by THL (inhouse

software development)

Data fields and components used in one client

document used in child welfare services

Structured documentation of patient data: case medication

• Structured documentation of medication data in EHRs(electronic health records)

• Electronic prescriptions of medication

– Mandatory in Finnish health care system

– Repository of eprescriptions + Pharmaceutical database (part of national Kanta services)

• Uniform data models needed

– Based on terminological concept analysis and definitions of concepts

• Classifications and terminologies

• ICD-10, ATC (Anatomic Therapeutic Classification)

• Drug administration, dose form, packages, dispensation etc.

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Data models and concept models related to

documentation of medication data in EHRs

National Code Service and EU level solutions

• National code sets needed for uniform documentation of patient and client data

– Prepared in expert groups, approval process organized by THL

– Terminological quality assurance

• Active co-operation between subject field experts, data architects and terminologists needed

• Cross-border exchange of patient data at the European level

– New requirements of semantic interoperability

– Secured data exchange solutions needed

– EU level guidelines, governance models and terminology servers

• Increased need for terminological competence in the future!

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• http://91.202.112.142/codeserver/pages/classification-list-page.xhtml• Nearly 700 code sets published on the national code server

• Open data to all users, esp. IT developers, social and health care professionals

• Information structures and document structures

• Classifications and terminologies

• Technical code sets

Type of referral

Type of contact person

Medication: device

Medication: route of

administration

Nicotine addiction test

Thank you!

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Kanta services for

professionals and citizens

http://www.kanta.fi/en/