Sweden
The National Board of Health and Welfare
The National Board of Health and Welfare will, whithin the Swedish Strategy for E-health, assume overall national and strategic responsibility for making individually-based patient and user information clearer and more easily measurable and accessible. The work involves defining and describing the content of appropriate health and social care documentation, and is being carried out in two projects: The National Information Structure (2007–2009) and the National Interdisciplinary Terminology (July 2007–March 2011). It is taking place in close collaboration with SALAR, health and social care principals and other actors in the field of health and social care.
The National interdisciplinary terminology for health and social care (with Snomed CT)
The national interdisciplinary terminology for health and social care includes recommendations and standardisation of concepts and terms, national and international classifications and Snomed CT. Translated into Swedish and adapted to Swedish circumstances, it will help produce less ambiguous and more measurable information.
The translation is expected to be completed in 2011
