DiSC are proposing to develop standards in a consultative and open manner with a focus on publishing early and iterating specifications. Our methodology will integrate a top-down approach, with “bottom-up” activities to inform, develop and test concepts.
Top Down:
the team are endorsing an International Standard for Health and Social Care (ISO13606) as an overarching framework for the development of the new standard
conceptual framework will be mapped to and based on concepts from ContSys
development of a conceptual model that described the key entities and relationships
development of a minimal operational dataset for social care
development of a data glossary and terminology for social care data
data dictionary of preferred definitions for social care data
development of reference sets and coding standards
This approach allows us to create concepts with the subject matter expert within a consistent standards based framework.
Bottom Up:
landscape assessment of the standards currently in use within the social care data community
data standards
national collections
terminologies / glossaries / synonyms
forms / questions
identification of common concepts, similarities and differences across existing data landscape
publication of
This approach allows us map the data concepts created against real-world processes and data.
Iteration:
We will follow an iterative cycle where concepts are created using a top-down approach and then mapped to existing data discovered through the bottom-up exercises. These can then be modified, iterated and reviewed.
Publication will be based GDS Guidelines on phases of an agile project: https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/agile-delivery