Standards, Interoperability and Data Management community of practice
Supporting safe, interoperable and standards-aligned digital health and care systems across the UK.
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About us
The SIDM Community of Practice is a professional forum within the BCS Faculty of Health and Care and we welcome anyone concerned with, or wanting to learn about:
- Standards used in health and care systems
- Interoperability, both within and across organisational and sector boundaries
- Data models, terminologies and metadata
- Information governance
- Lifecycle of standards within procurement, regulation, assurance and system design
Health and care standards are numerous, interdependent and often complex. They include messaging and API standards, terminology systems, information models, security frameworks, safety guidance and governance requirements. In practice, these must be used together and interpreted within real operational contexts.
Our role is not to develop standards or regulate compliance. Instead, we:
- Support professionals to understand and apply standards effectively
- Promote coherence between national policy and local implementation
- Provide constructive input into standards strategy and consultation
- Encourage alignment between health and social care domains
- Advocate professional practice, architectural integrity and data stewardship
We operate across the UK, recognising differences in governance models and digital maturity in the four nations, while promoting shared principles of safety, semantic clarity and interoperability.
