Improving the sharing of NICE content via syndication: what the future could hold

Andrew Fenton CIO NICE20 March 2014

Distribution strategy - yesterday

Print (Phased out during 2011/12)

Web

Mobile

Broadcast - a‘push’ approach

One size fits all

Dissemination strategy – todaySyndication Enablers

Information standards

Interoperability standards

Technical standards

Technical Services

Syndication with multiple third party products and services

NICE mobile & web

Push-pull approach

Well defined and targeted users/ audiences

User centric

Unified customer and brand experience across NICE products

Information specialist

I need to know when there’s a new study available for

diabetes in pregnancy

Guidance author/editor

I need to quickly update a part of the

guidance on hypertension in

pregnancy

I need to put together a costing framework for my

setting

I’m looking for the latest drug that

NICE recommends to treat

hypertension

I need to be central to the decision-making process

around my healthcare

Commissioner Health and social care professional

Quality standards

Journals and databases

NICE Pathways

NICE Guidance

Prescribing information

NHS Evidence

BNFMedicines information

…and channels

Patient, carer, service user

Digital strategyCustomer/ user centric focus

Multi-channel

Investment in enabling technologies and service architecture

Investment in underpinning evidence resource management and guidance

development/ production

Syndication strategy – tomorrow

Syndication Enablers

Information standards

Interoperability standards

Technical standards

Themes . . . for improving interoperability and integration

• across services within health – primary care – secondary care – community services etc

• across domains – NHS, local government, social care, public health, voluntary sector

• Identity management• Information standards –

data and formats/ protocols

• Common terminology and definitions

• Open architecture and APIs

• Customer focus

• Identity management• Information standards –

data and formats/ protocols

• Common terminology and definitions

• Open architecture and APIs

• Customer focus

Demand = Opportunity?

Opportunity = Benefits?

Culture

What work is NICE doing to improve dissemination?

• NICE Medicines Formulary (BNF) – digital product and content re-design

• Guidance development (review of end-end guidance process and product design)

• Reviewing content structure, syntax and semantic syntax strategy – linking to existing ontology and taxonomy development – spiking approaches for SNOWMED CT classification

Design principle - ensuring interoperability & integration from inception

Context 1 eg NICE website

I only need to edit this text in one

place – and publish once for

multiple use cases and channels

Alcohol-use disorders - preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinkingDuring this appraisal the regulatory health authorities have conducted reviews into the safety of erythropoietin analogues. This guidance was produced taking the conclusions of those reviews into consideration.* Item 1* Item 2[+ ADD]

Alcohol-use disorders - preventing the development of hazardous and harmful drinkingDuring this appraisal the regulatory health authorities have conducted reviews into the safety of erythropoietin analogues. This guidance was produced taking the conclusions of those reviews into consideration.* Item 1* Item 2[+ ADD]

Context 3 eg Decsiion Support

Context 2 eg Pathways

System-wide opportunities - example1. Ontology

Development

2. Auto-classification

system

3. Advanced Resource

Management System

4. Search capability

5. Syndication

API NICE Information

Management &

Technology

1. Strategic investment across health and care to develop and implement wider Information Standards and architecture e.g. Content schemas and classification

2. Exploring programmatic classification of (e.g.) Snowmed CT

3. Federate resource management responsibility across the system using standard tools

4. Consider a syndicated indexing and search service across NHS, Public health and social care digital services

5. Integrate (syndicate) NICE guidance and content into decision support, data collections to enhance/ leverage research and analysis

THANK YOU